User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 50 106
Rank change year-on-year +6 +56 +4
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 89 87 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.90% 4.07% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 4.46% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 51 45
10th Percentile £345 £463 £365
25th Percentile £412 £516 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -12.00% +18.48%
75th Percentile £663 £615 £763
90th Percentile £819 £825 £813
Central London median daily rate £520 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -5.45% -12.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £34.03 - -
25th Percentile £38.56 - -
Median hourly rate £46.75 - -
75th Percentile £55.56 - -
90th Percentile £60.48 - -
Central London median hourly rate £46.75 - -

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 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the City of London

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the City of London.

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

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 5 July 2025.

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

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the City of London

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 9 (10.11%) Confluence
2 3 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.25%) CMS
4 1 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (3.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.49%) ION Anvil
3 3 (3.37%) CA PPM
3 3 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.25%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (2.25%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (2.25%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.25%) SAP MDG
4 2 (2.25%) SAP PLM
4 2 (2.25%) SAP VC
4 2 (2.25%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (1.12%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.12%) Orchestrade
5 1 (1.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (1.12%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.10%) Azure
2 8 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.62%) AWS
3 5 (5.62%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.37%) Power Automate
4 3 (3.37%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.25%) GCP
5 2 (2.25%) GitHub
5 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.25%) SaaS
5 2 (2.25%) Serverless
5 2 (2.25%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.12%) OCI
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.12%) LAN
2 1 (1.12%) Network Security
2 1 (1.12%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Star Schema
2 3 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.25%) Airbyte
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.25%) Power BI
3 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.25%) Tableau
4 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.12%) Metadata
4 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.24%) JIRA
2 3 (3.37%) Git
2 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.25%) Selenium
4 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.12%) Crucible
4 1 (1.12%) Gatling
4 1 (1.12%) GitLab
4 1 (1.12%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.12%) Maven
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.12%) Postman
4 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.12%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.12%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (55.06%) Social Skills
2 47 (52.81%) Finance
3 25 (28.09%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (19.10%) Presentation Skills
5 14 (15.73%) Banking
6 9 (10.11%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (7.87%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (6.74%) Front Office
8 6 (6.74%) Investment Banking
9 5 (5.62%) Financial Institution
10 4 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (4.49%) Marketing
11 3 (3.37%) Arabic Language
11 3 (3.37%) Back Office
11 3 (3.37%) Czech Language
11 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
12 2 (2.25%) Law
12 2 (2.25%) Legal
12 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (2.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (48.31%) Analyst
2 29 (32.58%) Business Analyst
3 9 (10.11%) Test Analyst
4 8 (8.99%) Consultant
4 8 (8.99%) Developer
5 7 (7.87%) Project Manager
6 6 (6.74%) Senior
7 5 (5.62%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (5.62%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.62%) Test Manager
8 4 (4.49%) Pensions Analyst
8 4 (4.49%) Product Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Digital Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Digital Business Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Finance Business Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Lead
9 3 (3.37%) Product Business Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Remote Support Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Solutions Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) .NET
2 2 (2.25%) ADO
2 2 (2.25%) FastAPI
2 2 (2.25%) OAuth
2 2 (2.25%) OAuth2
2 2 (2.25%) REST
2 2 (2.25%) RESTful
3 1 (1.12%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.12%) CSS
3 1 (1.12%) DCOM
3 1 (1.12%) EDI
3 1 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.12%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.12%) Middleware
3 1 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.12%) SOAP
3 1 (1.12%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.12%) XML
3 1 (1.12%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.49%) Fixed Income
3 4 (4.49%) PMI
4 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.37%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.25%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.12%) CMDB
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Equities
6 1 (1.12%) IVR
6 1 (1.12%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (51.69%) Agile
2 34 (38.20%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (19.10%) Migration
3 17 (19.10%) Test Automation
4 16 (17.98%) Acceptance Criteria
4 16 (17.98%) User Stories
5 15 (16.85%) Project Management
5 15 (16.85%) Workshop Facilitation
6 14 (15.73%) DevOps
7 13 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (14.61%) Data Analysis
8 12 (13.48%) Business Analysis
8 12 (13.48%) System Integration Testing
9 11 (12.36%) Project Delivery
10 10 (11.24%) System Testing
11 9 (10.11%) Computer Science
11 9 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.11%) Test Strategy
12 8 (8.99%) Scrum
12 8 (8.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.85%) SQL
2 6 (6.74%) Python
3 5 (5.62%) C#
4 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.25%) ABAP
5 2 (2.25%) Java
5 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.12%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.12%) Bash
6 1 (1.12%) Groovy
6 1 (1.12%) Perl
6 1 (1.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (23.60%) Degree
2 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) CBAP
3 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.49%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.37%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.12%) CCNP
6 1 (1.12%) CFA
6 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.12%) IIBA
6 1 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.73%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) PMO
3 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.12%) MiFID
3 1 (1.12%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Ansible
1 2 (2.25%) HP ALM
1 2 (2.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.12%) Control-M
2 1 (1.12%) Grafana
2 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.12%) Puppet
2 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.36%) Oracle
3 7 (7.87%) SAP
4 6 (6.74%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.49%) ION Trading
6 3 (3.37%) Broadcom
7 2 (2.25%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.25%) HP
7 2 (2.25%) UiPath
7 2 (2.25%) Workday
8 1 (1.12%) Cisco
8 1 (1.12%) Duck Creek
8 1 (1.12%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.12%) IBM
8 1 (1.12%) Juniper
8 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.12%) Murex
8 1 (1.12%) Sage
8 1 (1.12%) Tagetik
8 1 (1.12%) TOWER Software