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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 43 48
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +47
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 89 99 85
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.71% 5.30% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 5.63% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 55 51
10th Percentile £426 £328 £463
25th Percentile £498 £404 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £719 £663 £675
90th Percentile £798 £805 £775
Central London median daily rate £585 £515 £575
% change year-on-year +13.59% -10.43% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £16.83 £46.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -64.00% - -
Central London median hourly rate £16.83 £46.75 -
% change year-on-year -64.00% - -

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 2,093 1,760 1,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.35% 94.22% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 1,155 1,286
10th Percentile £374 £330 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £796
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.69 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.31 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 (3.37%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.12%) CMS
3 1 (1.12%) IIS
3 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (8.99%) Oracle Payables
1 8 (8.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (6.74%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (6.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.25%) Aladdin
4 2 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (2.25%) SAP HCM
4 2 (2.25%) SAP MDG
4 2 (2.25%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (1.12%) SAP CO
5 1 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.12%) SAP PM
5 1 (1.12%) SAP QM
5 1 (1.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.48%) Azure
2 10 (11.24%) Power Platform
3 9 (10.11%) OCI
4 6 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.49%) Power Automate
5 4 (4.49%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (3.37%) GitHub
6 3 (3.37%) Serverless
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.25%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.12%) Collibra
8 1 (1.12%) dbt
8 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.12%) Miro
8 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.12%) DNS
2 1 (1.12%) FTP
2 1 (1.12%) Internet
2 1 (1.12%) LAN
2 1 (1.12%) Network Security
2 1 (1.12%) NGFW
2 1 (1.12%) VPN
2 1 (1.12%) WAN
2 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) Power BI
2 5 (5.62%) Metadata
3 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.25%) SAP BW
4 2 (2.25%) Tableau
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.62%) JIRA
2 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.25%) Git
3 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.12%) git-flow
General
1 46 (51.69%) Finance
2 34 (38.20%) Social Skills
3 22 (24.72%) Banking
4 13 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.24%) General Ledger
6 8 (8.99%) Investment Banking
7 7 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (7.87%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (7.87%) Retail Banking
8 5 (5.62%) Back Office
8 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.49%) Retail
10 3 (3.37%) Front Office
10 3 (3.37%) Legal
10 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.25%) Law
11 2 (2.25%) Marketing
11 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (1.12%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (32.58%) Analyst
2 24 (26.97%) Business Analyst
3 14 (15.73%) Consultant
4 7 (7.87%) Data Analyst
4 7 (7.87%) Functional Consultant
4 7 (7.87%) Lead
5 6 (6.74%) Developer
5 6 (6.74%) SAP Consultant
6 5 (5.62%) Oracle Consultant
6 5 (5.62%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) Senior
7 4 (4.49%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 3 (3.37%) Applications Tester
8 3 (3.37%) Architect
8 3 (3.37%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Tester
9 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 2 (2.25%) Migration Analyst
9 2 (2.25%) SAP MDM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.87%) .NET
2 5 (5.62%) Middleware
3 3 (3.37%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.12%) JSON
4 1 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.12%) REST
4 1 (1.12%) RESTful
4 1 (1.12%) SOAP
4 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.62%) Reinsurance
3 4 (4.49%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.25%) Derivative
5 2 (2.25%) FMCG
5 2 (2.25%) IoT
5 2 (2.25%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.25%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.25%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.12%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) NHS
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Linux
1 1 (1.12%) Unix
1 1 (1.12%) Windows
1 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (33.71%) Migration
3 26 (29.21%) Agile
4 22 (24.72%) Data Migration
5 20 (22.47%) Validation
6 18 (20.22%) User Stories
7 16 (17.98%) Accounts Payable
7 16 (17.98%) System Integration Testing
7 16 (17.98%) Workshop Facilitation
8 14 (15.73%) Accounts Receivable
8 14 (15.73%) ERP
9 13 (14.61%) Data Modelling
9 13 (14.61%) Scenario Testing
9 13 (14.61%) Translating Business Requirements
10 12 (13.48%) Acceptance Criteria
10 12 (13.48%) Data Analysis
10 12 (13.48%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (12.36%) Asset Management
12 10 (11.24%) Project Delivery
12 10 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.85%) SQL
2 5 (5.62%) C#
3 1 (1.12%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.12%) Korn
3 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.12%) VBA
3 1 (1.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.12%) CCIE
4 1 (1.12%) CCNP
4 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.12%) IIBA
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.24%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.12%) PSD2
4 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.12%) Grafana
1 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (22.47%) Microsoft
2 16 (17.98%) Oracle
3 14 (15.73%) SAP
4 8 (8.99%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.37%) Workday
6 2 (2.25%) Cisco
6 2 (2.25%) Databricks
6 2 (2.25%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.25%) Informatica
6 2 (2.25%) Kronos
6 2 (2.25%) Murex
6 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.12%) Apple
7 1 (1.12%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.12%) Fiserv
7 1 (1.12%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.12%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.12%) Pega
7 1 (1.12%) Splunk