User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 70 71
Rank change year-on-year +32 +1 +35
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 97 52 80
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.51% 2.49% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.90% 2.72% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 24 57
10th Percentile £343 £330 £508
25th Percentile £411 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £560 £588
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -4.68% +6.82%
75th Percentile £666 £686 £680
90th Percentile £710 £725 £850
Central London median daily rate £515 £590 £588
% change year-on-year -12.71% +0.43% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,644 1,914 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.36% 91.67% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,173 1,733
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £782 £812
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the City of London

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (12.37%) Confluence
2 7 (7.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.03%) CMS
3 1 (1.03%) Drupal
3 1 (1.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (9.28%) MS Visio
3 6 (6.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.06%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.03%) Adobe XD
6 1 (1.03%) InVision
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (1.03%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Oracle Cash Management
1 4 (4.12%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (4.12%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (4.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.06%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (2.06%) HFM
3 2 (2.06%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (2.06%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (2.06%) SAP MDG
3 2 (2.06%) SAP PLM
3 2 (2.06%) SAP VC
3 2 (2.06%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (1.03%) Aladdin
4 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.03%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (1.03%) ION Anvil
4 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.56%) Azure
2 8 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.15%) GCP
5 4 (4.12%) AWS
6 2 (2.06%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.06%) Figma
6 2 (2.06%) Google Gemini
6 2 (2.06%) Miro
6 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.06%) Serverless
7 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Firewall
1 3 (3.09%) LAN
1 3 (3.09%) Network Security
1 3 (3.09%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (3.09%) WAN
2 1 (1.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) Star Schema
2 4 (4.12%) Power BI
3 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.06%) Airbyte
4 2 (2.06%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.06%) Tableau
5 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.03%) MySQL
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (23.71%) JIRA
2 3 (3.09%) Git
3 2 (2.06%) LoadRunner
3 2 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.03%) Gatling
4 1 (1.03%) GitLab
4 1 (1.03%) JMeter
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.03%) Selenium
4 1 (1.03%) TestRail
4 1 (1.03%) Vite
General
1 51 (52.58%) Finance
2 41 (42.27%) Social Skills
3 29 (29.90%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (19.59%) Banking
5 11 (11.34%) Public Sector
6 10 (10.31%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (8.25%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (7.22%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (6.19%) Investment Banking
10 3 (3.09%) Law
10 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.06%) Front Office
11 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.06%) Legal
11 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.03%) Back Office
12 1 (1.03%) Billing
12 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 46 (47.42%) Analyst
2 35 (36.08%) Business Analyst
3 10 (10.31%) Consultant
4 8 (8.25%) Senior
5 7 (7.22%) Technical Analyst
6 6 (6.19%) Developer
6 6 (6.19%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (6.19%) Technical Business Analyst
6 6 (6.19%) Test Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.12%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) IT Manager
8 4 (4.12%) IT Project Manager
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Test Manager
9 3 (3.09%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (3.09%) Security Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) .NET
2 3 (3.09%) ADO
3 2 (2.06%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.06%) HTML
3 2 (2.06%) OAuth
3 2 (2.06%) OAuth2
3 2 (2.06%) RESTful
4 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.03%) CSS
4 1 (1.03%) DCOM
4 1 (1.03%) JSON
4 1 (1.03%) Node.js
4 1 (1.03%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.03%) Playwright
4 1 (1.03%) React
4 1 (1.03%) Sass
4 1 (1.03%) Vitest
4 1 (1.03%) Web Services
4 1 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.65%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.19%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.09%) PMI
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.06%) Derivative
6 2 (2.06%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.06%) e-Learning
6 2 (2.06%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.03%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (47.42%) Agile
2 28 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (25.77%) User Stories
4 24 (24.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (19.59%) Scrum
6 17 (17.53%) Migration
6 17 (17.53%) Workshop Facilitation
7 16 (16.49%) Business Analysis
7 16 (16.49%) Project Delivery
8 15 (15.46%) Acceptance Criteria
9 14 (14.43%) Data Analysis
9 14 (14.43%) Requirements Gathering
9 14 (14.43%) System Integration Testing
9 14 (14.43%) Validation
10 13 (13.40%) Data Migration
11 12 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (12.37%) Test Automation
12 11 (11.34%) Computer Science
12 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (11.34%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.56%) SQL
2 8 (8.25%) Python
3 4 (4.12%) C#
4 3 (3.09%) Java
5 2 (2.06%) ABAP
5 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.03%) C++
6 1 (1.03%) Korn
6 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (25.77%) Degree
2 9 (9.28%) CBAP
3 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.09%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.06%) ISEB
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.03%) CFA
8 1 (1.03%) IIBA
8 1 (1.03%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (24.74%) QA
2 5 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.09%) PMO
3 3 (3.09%) PSD2
4 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.06%) GDPR
4 2 (2.06%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.03%) EMIR
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.03%) MiFID
5 1 (1.03%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Grafana
1 1 (1.03%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.40%) Oracle
3 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.12%) SAP
4 3 (3.09%) Arista
4 3 (3.09%) Cisco
4 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.06%) Adobe
5 2 (2.06%) Google
5 2 (2.06%) Hyperion
5 2 (2.06%) SmartStream
5 2 (2.06%) Tagetik
5 2 (2.06%) UiPath
5 2 (2.06%) Workday
6 1 (1.03%) HP
6 1 (1.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) Informatica
6 1 (1.03%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.03%) Sage
6 1 (1.03%) VMware