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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 67 47
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 +63
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 89 53 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.02% 3.05% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 3.30% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 30 58
10th Percentile £405 £322 £464
25th Percentile £456 £380 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -
75th Percentile £663 £575 £656
90th Percentile £750 £775 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
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 1,926 1,606 2,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.91% 92.41% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,037 1,436
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.10% -5.21%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £769 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £52.16 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 (8.99%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Camunda
3 1 (1.12%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.12%) Mendix
3 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (6.74%) MS Visio
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (16.85%) Oracle Payables
1 15 (16.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 13 (14.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (4.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (3.37%) Aladdin
5 2 (2.25%) Algo Collateral
5 2 (2.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (2.25%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (1.12%) Actimize
6 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (1.12%) Findur
6 1 (1.12%) Loan IQ
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.12%) SAP MM
6 1 (1.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.85%) OCI
2 8 (8.99%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.62%) Azure
4 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.25%) AWS
5 2 (2.25%) GCP
5 2 (2.25%) GitHub
5 2 (2.25%) Google Gemini
5 2 (2.25%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.25%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.12%) Collibra
6 1 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.12%) Miro
6 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.12%) LAN
2 1 (1.12%) Network Security
2 1 (1.12%) NGFW
2 1 (1.12%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (1.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) Power BI
2 4 (4.49%) Tableau
3 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.25%) Metadata
3 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (15.73%) JIRA
2 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
2 2 (2.25%) Selenium
3 1 (1.12%) Git
3 1 (1.12%) git-flow
3 1 (1.12%) GitLab
3 1 (1.12%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.12%) TestRail
3 1 (1.12%) Vite
3 1 (1.12%) WinAutomation
General
1 51 (57.30%) Finance
2 34 (38.20%) Social Skills
3 30 (33.71%) Banking
4 24 (26.97%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (19.10%) Investment Banking
6 13 (14.61%) Retail Banking
7 6 (6.74%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.62%) Front Office
8 5 (5.62%) Law
8 5 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (4.49%) Legal
10 2 (2.25%) Back Office
10 2 (2.25%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.12%) Billing
11 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.12%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (37.08%) Analyst
2 24 (26.97%) Business Analyst
3 7 (7.87%) Consultant
3 7 (7.87%) Senior
4 6 (6.74%) Lead
5 5 (5.62%) Payments Analyst
5 5 (5.62%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (4.49%) Functional Consultant
6 4 (4.49%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
7 3 (3.37%) Developer
7 3 (3.37%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.37%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.37%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (3.37%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (2.25%) Architect
8 2 (2.25%) Banking Analyst
8 2 (2.25%) Business Systems Analyst
8 2 (2.25%) IT Manager
8 2 (2.25%) Programme Manager
8 2 (2.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.25%) CSS
1 2 (2.25%) HTML
1 2 (2.25%) Middleware
1 2 (2.25%) Playwright
2 1 (1.12%) FHIR
2 1 (1.12%) Kafka
2 1 (1.12%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.12%) Murex MxML
2 1 (1.12%) Node.js
2 1 (1.12%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.12%) React
2 1 (1.12%) REST
2 1 (1.12%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.12%) Sass
2 1 (1.12%) SOAP
2 1 (1.12%) Spring
2 1 (1.12%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.12%) Vitest
2 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.99%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.62%) Derivative
3 5 (5.62%) Reinsurance
4 4 (4.49%) Fixed Income
4 4 (4.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.37%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (3.37%) Equities
5 3 (3.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.25%) FMCG
6 2 (2.25%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.25%) NHS
6 2 (2.25%) PMI
6 2 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.12%) Housing Association
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.08%) Agile
2 21 (23.60%) User Stories
3 20 (22.47%) Asset Management
3 20 (22.47%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (21.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (19.10%) Migration
6 16 (17.98%) Procure-to-Pay
7 15 (16.85%) Accounts Payable
7 15 (16.85%) Business Analysis
7 15 (16.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (16.85%) Workshop Facilitation
8 14 (15.73%) Validation
9 13 (14.61%) Accounts Receivable
10 12 (13.48%) ERP
10 12 (13.48%) GAP Analysis
11 11 (12.36%) Acceptance Criteria
12 10 (11.24%) Data Migration
12 10 (11.24%) Scenario Testing
12 10 (11.24%) Scrum
13 9 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.24%) SQL
2 3 (3.37%) Python
3 2 (2.25%) Java
3 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.12%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (7.87%) Degree
1 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.62%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.49%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.25%) CBAP
4 2 (2.25%) CFA
4 2 (2.25%) PMP
5 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.12%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.36%) QA
2 10 (11.24%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.62%) PSD2
4 3 (3.37%) IFRS
4 3 (3.37%) ISO 20022
4 3 (3.37%) ISO 8583
4 3 (3.37%) PMO
5 2 (2.25%) Basel III
5 2 (2.25%) GDPR
5 2 (2.25%) MiFID
5 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.12%) GAAP
6 1 (1.12%) HL7
6 1 (1.12%) IFRS 17
6 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Grafana
2 1 (1.12%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (25.84%) Oracle
2 15 (16.85%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.11%) SAP
4 8 (8.99%) Salesforce
5 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.37%) Murex
7 2 (2.25%) Cisco
7 2 (2.25%) Google
7 2 (2.25%) SmartStream
8 1 (1.12%) Cerner
8 1 (1.12%) Charles River
8 1 (1.12%) Fiserv
8 1 (1.12%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.12%) HP
8 1 (1.12%) IBM
8 1 (1.12%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.12%) OpenLink
8 1 (1.12%) Pega
8 1 (1.12%) SimCorp
8 1 (1.12%) Splunk