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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 44 109
Rank change year-on-year -15 +65 -6
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 63 96 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.59% 4.37% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 4.83% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 61 43
10th Percentile £335 £425 £339
25th Percentile £411 £519 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £681 £600 £700
90th Percentile £854 £838 £800
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.00 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 - -

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 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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 2 May 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
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 5 (7.94%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) CMS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (6.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (4.76%) CA PPM
3 3 (4.76%) ION Anvil
4 2 (3.17%) Actimize
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (3.17%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (1.59%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.59%) Orchestrade
5 1 (1.59%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 1 (1.59%) SAP CO
5 1 (1.59%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.59%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.59%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (1.59%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.87%) Azure
2 5 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.76%) AWS
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.76%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.76%) PowerApps
4 3 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.17%) GitHub
5 2 (3.17%) SaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.59%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.59%) OCI
6 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.59%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.59%) LAN
2 1 (1.59%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.17%) DataStage
2 2 (3.17%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.59%) Metadata
3 1 (1.59%) Power BI
3 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) JIRA
2 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.59%) Crucible
4 1 (1.59%) Git
4 1 (1.59%) GitLab
4 1 (1.59%) Maven
4 1 (1.59%) Postman
4 1 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.59%) Travis CI
General
1 37 (58.73%) Social Skills
2 31 (49.21%) Finance
3 14 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (17.46%) Banking
4 11 (17.46%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Front Office
5 5 (7.94%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.35%) Marketing
6 4 (6.35%) Retail
7 3 (4.76%) Arabic Language
7 3 (4.76%) Back Office
7 3 (4.76%) Czech Language
7 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.17%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.59%) Local Government
9 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (47.62%) Analyst
2 19 (30.16%) Business Analyst
3 7 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 5 (7.94%) Consultant
4 5 (7.94%) Test Analyst
4 5 (7.94%) Test Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Developer
5 4 (6.35%) SAP Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Administrator
6 3 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Digital Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Digital Business Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Lead
6 3 (4.76%) Product Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Remote Support Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Solutions Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Product Business Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Risk Project Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) .NET
2 2 (3.17%) ADO
2 2 (3.17%) REST
2 2 (3.17%) Web Services
3 1 (1.59%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.59%) CSS
3 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.59%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.59%) HTML
3 1 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.59%) Middleware
3 1 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.59%) SOAP
3 1 (1.59%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.59%) XML
3 1 (1.59%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.35%) PMI
3 3 (4.76%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.76%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.17%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.59%) CMDB
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Equities
5 1 (1.59%) IVR
5 1 (1.59%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.35%) Windows
2 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (49.21%) Agile
2 24 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (20.63%) Project Management
4 12 (19.05%) Migration
5 11 (17.46%) User Stories
6 10 (15.87%) Acceptance Criteria
7 9 (14.29%) Business Analysis
7 9 (14.29%) DevOps
7 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (12.70%) Test Strategy
9 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (11.11%) Data Management
9 7 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (9.52%) Change Management
10 6 (9.52%) ERP
10 6 (9.52%) Integration Testing
10 6 (9.52%) Project Delivery
10 6 (9.52%) System Integration Testing
10 6 (9.52%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) SQL
2 3 (4.76%) C#
2 3 (4.76%) Python
3 2 (3.17%) Java
3 2 (3.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.59%) Bash
4 1 (1.59%) Groovy
4 1 (1.59%) Perl
4 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Degree
2 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.35%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.76%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.59%) CBAP
6 1 (1.59%) CCNP
6 1 (1.59%) CFA
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.59%) IIBA
6 1 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (4.76%) PMO
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) MiFID
3 1 (1.59%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Ansible
1 2 (3.17%) HP ALM
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Control-M
2 1 (1.59%) Grafana
2 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.59%) Puppet
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) SAP
3 7 (11.11%) Oracle
4 6 (9.52%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.76%) Broadcom
5 3 (4.76%) ION Trading
6 2 (3.17%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.17%) Concur
6 2 (3.17%) HP
6 2 (3.17%) Informatica
6 2 (3.17%) Workday
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco
7 1 (1.59%) Civica
7 1 (1.59%) IBM
7 1 (1.59%) Juniper
7 1 (1.59%) Murex
7 1 (1.59%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.59%) QAD
7 1 (1.59%) SimCorp
7 1 (1.59%) TOWER Software