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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 47 42
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +67
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 92 75 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.87% 4.40% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 4.69% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 38 56
10th Percentile £446 £362 £425
25th Percentile £525 £415 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £725 £653 £600
90th Percentile £810 £926 £806
Central London median daily rate £590 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +18.00% -9.09% -11.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £16.83 £31.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% - -
Central London median hourly rate £16.83 £31.00 -
% change year-on-year -45.71% - -

All Process & 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 2,034 1,598 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.64% 93.72% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,008 1,378
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.48% -20.54%

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 7 June 2026.

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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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
London Bridge - 2 £650 -
User Acceptance Testing
Central London

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 3 (3.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) Camunda
2 1 (1.09%) Mendix
2 1 (1.09%) SAS
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.35%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (16.30%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (16.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (14.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (5.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (4.35%) Aladdin
5 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (2.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (2.17%) SAP HCM
5 2 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (1.09%) Actimize
6 1 (1.09%) Findur
6 1 (1.09%) Loan IQ
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (1.09%) SAP ERP
6 1 (1.09%) SAP MM
6 1 (1.09%) SAP PM
6 1 (1.09%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.39%) OCI
2 5 (5.43%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.17%) Azure
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (2.17%) GitHub
4 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.17%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.17%) SaaS
4 2 (2.17%) Serverless
4 2 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.09%) AWS
5 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (1.09%) Boomi
5 1 (1.09%) Collibra
5 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) Firewall
2 1 (1.09%) FTP
2 1 (1.09%) Internet
2 1 (1.09%) LAN
2 1 (1.09%) Network Security
2 1 (1.09%) NGFW
2 1 (1.09%) VPN
2 1 (1.09%) WAN
2 1 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.26%) Power BI
1 3 (3.26%) Tableau
2 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.17%) Metadata
2 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) JIRA
2 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.09%) git-flow
2 1 (1.09%) Selenium
2 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.09%) WinAutomation
General
1 54 (58.70%) Finance
2 29 (31.52%) Banking
2 29 (31.52%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (18.48%) Investment Banking
5 13 (14.13%) Retail Banking
6 8 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (6.52%) Front Office
7 6 (6.52%) General Ledger
7 6 (6.52%) Legal
7 6 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.35%) Back Office
9 4 (4.35%) Law
10 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.09%) Retail
11 1 (1.09%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (31.52%) Analyst
2 22 (23.91%) Business Analyst
3 10 (10.87%) Consultant
4 7 (7.61%) Lead
5 6 (6.52%) Senior
6 5 (5.43%) Functional Consultant
6 5 (5.43%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (4.35%) Architect
7 4 (4.35%) Developer
7 4 (4.35%) Oracle Consultant
7 4 (4.35%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 3 (3.26%) Payments Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.52%) Middleware
2 4 (4.35%) .NET
3 3 (3.26%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.17%) REST
4 2 (2.17%) SOAP
4 2 (2.17%) XML
5 1 (1.09%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.09%) CSS
5 1 (1.09%) FHIR
5 1 (1.09%) HTML
5 1 (1.09%) JSON
5 1 (1.09%) Kafka
5 1 (1.09%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.09%) Murex MxML
5 1 (1.09%) Playwright
5 1 (1.09%) RESTful
5 1 (1.09%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.09%) Spring
5 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Legacy Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.35%) Derivative
3 4 (4.35%) Digital Wallet
3 4 (4.35%) Reinsurance
4 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.26%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.17%) Equities
5 2 (2.17%) FMCG
5 2 (2.17%) IoT
5 2 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.17%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.17%) NHS
5 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.09%) Housing Association
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.26%) Migration
2 23 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (23.91%) Asset Management
4 21 (22.83%) Agile
5 18 (19.57%) Accounts Payable
5 18 (19.57%) Validation
6 17 (18.48%) Data Migration
7 16 (17.39%) Accounts Receivable
7 16 (17.39%) ERP
7 16 (17.39%) Procure-to-Pay
8 15 (16.30%) User Stories
9 14 (15.22%) Scenario Testing
10 13 (14.13%) System Integration Testing
11 12 (13.04%) Business Analysis
12 11 (11.96%) Workshop Facilitation
13 10 (10.87%) Acceptance Criteria
13 10 (10.87%) Data Analysis
13 10 (10.87%) Data Mapping
13 10 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (9.78%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.78%) SQL
2 2 (2.17%) C#
3 1 (1.09%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.09%) Java
3 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.09%) Korn
3 1 (1.09%) Python
3 1 (1.09%) VBA
3 1 (1.09%) X++
Qualifications
1 6 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.35%) Degree
2 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.17%) PMP
4 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.09%) CCIE
4 1 (1.09%) CCNP
4 1 (1.09%) CFA
4 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (1.09%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.52%) QA
3 4 (4.35%) GDPR
3 4 (4.35%) PSD2
4 3 (3.26%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.17%) IFRS
5 2 (2.17%) MiFID
5 2 (2.17%) PMO
6 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.09%) Basel III
6 1 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.09%) GAAP
6 1 (1.09%) HL7
6 1 (1.09%) ISO 8583
6 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.09%) Grafana
1 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (27.17%) Oracle
2 19 (20.65%) Microsoft
3 16 (17.39%) SAP
4 9 (9.78%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.35%) Murex
6 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.17%) Cisco
7 2 (2.17%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.17%) Kronos
7 2 (2.17%) Workday
8 1 (1.09%) Apple
8 1 (1.09%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.09%) Cerner
8 1 (1.09%) Charles River
8 1 (1.09%) Fiserv
8 1 (1.09%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.09%) OpenLink
8 1 (1.09%) Pega
8 1 (1.09%) SimCorp
8 1 (1.09%) Splunk