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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +55
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 92 89 88
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.76% 4.88% 4.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 5.20% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 52
10th Percentile £421 £345 £463
25th Percentile £477 £412 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -7.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £706 £663 £608
90th Percentile £793 £819 £820
Central London median daily rate £590 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +13.46% -5.45% -12.00%
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 2,098 1,710 1,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.81% 93.85% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 1,097 1,343
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £552 £555
% change year-on-year -0.36% -0.45% -7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £41.69 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -28.74% +20.37% -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 7 July 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 July 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%) CMS
2 1 (1.09%) IIS
2 1 (1.09%) Mendix
2 1 (1.09%) SAS
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (14.13%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (14.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 11 (11.96%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (3.26%) Aladdin
4 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (2.17%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (2.17%) SAP HCM
4 2 (2.17%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (1.09%) Actimize
5 1 (1.09%) Findur
5 1 (1.09%) Loan IQ
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (1.09%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.09%) SAP PM
5 1 (1.09%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.30%) OCI
2 7 (7.61%) Azure
3 6 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.17%) GitHub
5 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.17%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.17%) SaaS
5 2 (2.17%) Serverless
5 2 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.09%) AWS
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.09%) Collibra
6 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.09%) Miro
6 1 (1.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) Firewall
2 1 (1.09%) DNS
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 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.17%) Metadata
2 2 (2.17%) Power BI
2 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.17%) Tableau
3 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) JIRA
2 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.17%) Git
3 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.09%) git-flow
4 1 (1.09%) Selenium
4 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.09%) WinAutomation
General
1 50 (54.35%) Finance
2 32 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 24 (26.09%) Banking
4 13 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (13.04%) Investment Banking
6 11 (11.96%) General Ledger
6 11 (11.96%) Retail Banking
7 7 (7.61%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (7.61%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.35%) Back Office
9 4 (4.35%) Legal
10 2 (2.17%) Front Office
10 2 (2.17%) Law
10 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.09%) Automotive
11 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (28.26%) Analyst
2 20 (21.74%) Business Analyst
3 10 (10.87%) Consultant
4 8 (8.70%) Lead
5 6 (6.52%) Functional Consultant
5 6 (6.52%) Senior
6 5 (5.43%) Developer
6 5 (5.43%) Oracle Consultant
6 5 (5.43%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Architect
7 4 (4.35%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 4 (4.35%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Applications Tester
8 3 (3.26%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.26%) Tester
9 2 (2.17%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.61%) Middleware
2 6 (6.52%) .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%) Lightning Web Components
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 10 (10.87%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.43%) Reinsurance
2 5 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.35%) Derivative
3 4 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.17%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.17%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.17%) FMCG
5 2 (2.17%) IoT
5 2 (2.17%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.17%) NHS
6 1 (1.09%) CMDB
6 1 (1.09%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.09%) Equities
6 1 (1.09%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.09%) Replication
6 1 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.09%) Linux
1 1 (1.09%) Unix
1 1 (1.09%) Windows
1 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
1 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.43%) Migration
2 26 (28.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (22.83%) Accounts Payable
3 21 (22.83%) Agile
3 21 (22.83%) Data Migration
4 19 (20.65%) Accounts Receivable
5 18 (19.57%) Asset Management
5 18 (19.57%) ERP
5 18 (19.57%) Validation
6 15 (16.30%) User Stories
7 13 (14.13%) Procure-to-Pay
7 13 (14.13%) System Integration Testing
8 12 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
8 12 (13.04%) Workshop Facilitation
9 10 (10.87%) Business Analysis
9 10 (10.87%) Scenario Testing
10 9 (9.78%) Project Delivery
10 9 (9.78%) Test Automation
10 9 (9.78%) Translating Business Requirements
11 8 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.87%) SQL
2 4 (4.35%) 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%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.09%) VBA
3 1 (1.09%) X++
Qualifications
1 9 (9.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.61%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.09%) CCIE
4 1 (1.09%) CCNP
4 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.09%) IIBA
4 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.61%) QA
3 4 (4.35%) GDPR
4 2 (2.17%) IFRS
4 2 (2.17%) PSD2
5 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.09%) GAAP
5 1 (1.09%) HL7
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.26%) 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 13 (14.13%) SAP
4 10 (10.87%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.26%) Murex
5 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.26%) Workday
6 2 (2.17%) Cisco
6 2 (2.17%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.17%) Kronos
7 1 (1.09%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.09%) Cerner
7 1 (1.09%) Charles River
7 1 (1.09%) Fiserv
7 1 (1.09%) Google
7 1 (1.09%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.09%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.09%) Pega
7 1 (1.09%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.09%) Splunk