User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Cheshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 44 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 22 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.90% 2.78% 4.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 3.29% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 17
10th Percentile £354 £313 £433
25th Percentile £466 £368 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £406 £540
Median % change year-on-year +26.52% -24.77% +49.17%
75th Percentile £566 £469 £680
90th Percentile £607 £626 £702
North West median daily rate £511 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +2.13% +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £52.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing User Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Cheshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford +1 7 £510 +28.30% 5
Macclesfield - 4 £580 -
Crewe -2 2 £700 +53.42% 1
User Acceptance Testing
North West

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (22.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.09%) GIS
1 2 (9.09%) MSDE
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) DTS
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Analyst
1 7 (31.82%) Business Analyst
1 7 (31.82%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Business Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Tester
5 2 (9.09%) Administrator
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analytics Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) DBA
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) SAP Financial Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) SQL DBA
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Business Process Owner
6 1 (4.55%) Product Lead
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) CMDB
2 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.09%) Clustering
3 2 (9.09%) Life Science
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
1 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Agile
2 11 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (40.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (40.91%) Test Strategy
5 8 (36.36%) Decision-Making
5 8 (36.36%) ITSM
5 8 (36.36%) Risk Management
5 8 (36.36%) Service Management
6 7 (31.82%) Business Analysis
6 7 (31.82%) Focus Group
6 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (27.27%) Service Catalogue
8 5 (22.73%) Scrum
8 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Identification
8 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
9 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
9 4 (18.18%) Inventory Management
9 4 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
9 4 (18.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Bash
1 2 (9.09%) Python
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
1 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
2 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) PMO
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) HP ALM
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Perfmon
2 1 (4.55%) SCOM
2 1 (4.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) ServiceNow
2 5 (22.73%) SAP
3 3 (13.64%) Ariba
4 2 (9.09%) Anaplan
4 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.09%) Hyperion
4 2 (9.09%) Infoblox
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) HP
5 1 (4.55%) VMware