User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 23 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.32% 0.77% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 0.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £603 - -
90th Percentile £646 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £513 £320 -
% change year-on-year +60.16% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

User Acceptance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 191 114 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 90.52% 87.69% 91.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 81 104
10th Percentile £183 £296 £235
25th Percentile £363 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £423
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +18.34% -6.11%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £550
90th Percentile £660 £700 £646
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £450 £475 £442
% change year-on-year -5.26% +7.47% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 29
10th Percentile £14.64 £16.40 £21.10
25th Percentile £16.03 £18.10 £25.00
Median hourly rate £22.13 £39.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.97% -24.76% +156.10%
75th Percentile £38.10 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £72.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.50 £16.23 £15.50
% change year-on-year -4.50% +4.71% +6.90%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Acceptance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Cambridge

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Cambridge over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Cambridge

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) MSTest
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Billing
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) ERP Trainer
2 1 (14.29%) IFS Trainer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ERP
2 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Quote-to-Cash
3 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) System Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Management
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Apex Code
1 2 (28.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) HP ALM
1 2 (28.57%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) IFS
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) Siemens