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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 38 54
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 +37
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 83 95 74
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.64% 5.35% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 5.69% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 49 35
10th Percentile £413 £323 £403
25th Percentile £472 £404 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -6.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £833 £725
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £590
% change year-on-year +2.33% -8.90% -4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £16.83 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -73.07% - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.42 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -54.54% - -

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 2,011 1,670 1,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.28% 94.03% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,387 1,101 1,227
10th Percentile £375 £325 £380
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 - 1 £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 4 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.61%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.20%) CMS
3 1 (1.20%) IIS
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.82%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (2.41%) SAP HCM
2 2 (2.41%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.41%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (1.20%) Findur
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.20%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.20%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.20%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.20%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.20%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.20%) SAP QM
3 1 (1.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.89%) Azure
2 11 (13.25%) Power Platform
3 8 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (6.02%) Power Automate
4 5 (6.02%) PowerApps
5 4 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (4.82%) GitHub
5 4 (4.82%) Serverless
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Functions
6 3 (3.61%) OCI
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.41%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.41%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.41%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.20%) Boomi
8 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) DNS
1 1 (1.20%) Firewall
1 1 (1.20%) FTP
1 1 (1.20%) Internet
1 1 (1.20%) LAN
1 1 (1.20%) VPN
1 1 (1.20%) WAN
1 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) Metadata
1 6 (7.23%) Power BI
2 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.61%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.41%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) JIRA
2 4 (4.82%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.61%) Git
3 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.20%) eggPlant
4 1 (1.20%) git-flow
4 1 (1.20%) HP UFT
4 1 (1.20%) Rational Functional Tester
4 1 (1.20%) Selenium
4 1 (1.20%) SilkTest
4 1 (1.20%) SOAtest
General
1 40 (48.19%) Finance
2 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.28%) Banking
4 13 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.84%) General Ledger
6 7 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (6.02%) Back Office
7 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.82%) Retail
9 3 (3.61%) Front Office
9 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.61%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.41%) Legal
10 2 (2.41%) Marketing
10 2 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.41%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.20%) Automotive
11 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (32.53%) Analyst
2 23 (27.71%) Business Analyst
3 12 (14.46%) Consultant
4 8 (9.64%) Developer
5 6 (7.23%) Data Analyst
5 6 (7.23%) Lead
5 6 (7.23%) SAP Consultant
5 6 (7.23%) Senior
6 5 (6.02%) Functional Consultant
6 5 (6.02%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Architect
7 4 (4.82%) Oracle Consultant
8 3 (3.61%) Applications Tester
8 3 (3.61%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 3 (3.61%) Tester
9 2 (2.41%) Azure Developer
9 2 (2.41%) Migration Analyst
9 2 (2.41%) SAP MDM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) .NET
2 5 (6.02%) Middleware
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (2.41%) REST
4 2 (2.41%) SOAP
4 2 (2.41%) XML
5 1 (1.20%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.20%) HTML
5 1 (1.20%) JSON
5 1 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.20%) RESTful
5 1 (1.20%) Web Services
5 1 (1.20%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.23%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.82%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.61%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.41%) Derivative
5 2 (2.41%) FMCG
5 2 (2.41%) IoT
5 2 (2.41%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.41%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.20%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.20%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Linux
1 2 (2.41%) Unix
2 1 (1.20%) Windows
2 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 30 (36.14%) Agile
3 27 (32.53%) Migration
4 22 (26.51%) Data Migration
5 21 (25.30%) Validation
6 16 (19.28%) User Stories
7 15 (18.07%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (16.87%) ERP
8 14 (16.87%) Scenario Testing
8 14 (16.87%) System Integration Testing
9 13 (15.66%) Data Analysis
9 13 (15.66%) Data Modelling
9 13 (15.66%) Translating Business Requirements
10 12 (14.46%) DevOps
11 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (13.25%) Workshop Facilitation
12 10 (12.05%) Acceptance Criteria
12 10 (12.05%) Accounts Payable
12 10 (12.05%) Software Testing
13 9 (10.84%) Accounts Receivable
Programming Languages
1 19 (22.89%) SQL
2 6 (7.23%) C#
3 2 (2.41%) Korn
3 2 (2.41%) Python
4 1 (1.20%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.20%) Java
4 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.20%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.20%) VBA
4 1 (1.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (14.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.61%) Degree
4 1 (1.20%) CCIE
4 1 (1.20%) CCNP
4 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.20%) CISM
4 1 (1.20%) CISSP
4 1 (1.20%) IIBA
4 1 (1.20%) ISEB
4 1 (1.20%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.87%) Data Quality
2 13 (15.66%) QA
3 3 (3.61%) GDPR
4 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.20%) PSD2
5 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) Grafana
1 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.87%) SAP
3 10 (12.05%) Oracle
4 4 (4.82%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.61%) Databricks
5 3 (3.61%) Workday
6 2 (2.41%) Informatica
6 2 (2.41%) Kronos
6 2 (2.41%) Murex
6 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.20%) Apple
7 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco
7 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.20%) Google
7 1 (1.20%) Klarna
7 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.20%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.20%) PayPal