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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 46 114
Rank change year-on-year 0 +68 -8
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 73 89 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.31% 4.13% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 4.55% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 57 39
10th Percentile £360 £425 £355
25th Percentile £415 £505 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £653 £600 £700
90th Percentile £926 £838 £800
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
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 1,584 1,957 3,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.62% 90.77% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,368 2,127
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £454 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £53.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -13.58%

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 30 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 6 (8.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) CMS
3 1 (1.37%) Apache
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) ION Anvil
1 4 (5.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.11%) CA PPM
2 3 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.74%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (1.37%) Actimize
4 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.37%) Orchestrade
4 1 (1.37%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 1 (1.37%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.37%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.37%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.37%) SAP MDG
4 1 (1.37%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.37%) SAP PLM
4 1 (1.37%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.44%) Azure
2 7 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.11%) AWS
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.11%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.11%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.74%) GitHub
5 2 (2.74%) SaaS
5 2 (2.74%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.37%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.37%) OCI
6 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.37%) LAN
2 1 (1.37%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.74%) Power BI
2 2 (2.74%) Star Schema
2 2 (2.74%) Tableau
3 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.37%) DataStage
3 1 (1.37%) Metadata
3 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) JIRA
2 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.74%) Selenium
4 1 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.37%) Crucible
4 1 (1.37%) Gatling
4 1 (1.37%) Git
4 1 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.37%) Maven
4 1 (1.37%) Postman
4 1 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.37%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (61.64%) Social Skills
2 36 (49.32%) Finance
3 22 (30.14%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (19.18%) Banking
5 13 (17.81%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (9.59%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (9.59%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (8.22%) Front Office
7 6 (8.22%) Investment Banking
8 5 (6.85%) Financial Institution
9 4 (5.48%) Marketing
10 3 (4.11%) Arabic Language
10 3 (4.11%) Back Office
10 3 (4.11%) Czech Language
10 3 (4.11%) Retail
11 2 (2.74%) General Ledger
11 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.74%) Law
11 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (49.32%) Analyst
2 24 (32.88%) Business Analyst
3 7 (9.59%) Project Manager
3 7 (9.59%) Test Analyst
4 6 (8.22%) Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Consultant
5 5 (6.85%) Test Manager
6 4 (5.48%) Product Analyst
6 4 (5.48%) Senior
7 3 (4.11%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Lead
7 3 (4.11%) Pensions Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Product Business Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Remote Support Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) SAP Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Solutions Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.22%) .NET
2 2 (2.74%) ADO
2 2 (2.74%) REST
3 1 (1.37%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.37%) CSS
3 1 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.37%) Entity Framework
3 1 (1.37%) HTML
3 1 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.37%) Middleware
3 1 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.37%) SOAP
3 1 (1.37%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.37%) Web Services
3 1 (1.37%) XML
3 1 (1.37%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.48%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.48%) Fixed Income
2 4 (5.48%) PMI
3 3 (4.11%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.74%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.37%) Equities
5 1 (1.37%) IVR
5 1 (1.37%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Windows
2 1 (1.37%) Linux
2 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (50.68%) Agile
2 30 (41.10%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (20.55%) Migration
3 15 (20.55%) Test Automation
3 15 (20.55%) User Stories
4 14 (19.18%) Project Management
5 13 (17.81%) DevOps
6 12 (16.44%) Acceptance Criteria
7 9 (12.33%) Business Analysis
8 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.96%) System Testing
8 8 (10.96%) Test Strategy
8 8 (10.96%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (9.59%) Change Management
9 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (9.59%) Data Analysis
9 7 (9.59%) Project Delivery
9 7 (9.59%) System Integration Testing
10 6 (8.22%) Data Management
10 6 (8.22%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.44%) SQL
2 5 (6.85%) C#
3 4 (5.48%) Python
4 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.74%) Java
6 1 (1.37%) ABAP
6 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.37%) Bash
6 1 (1.37%) Groovy
6 1 (1.37%) Perl
6 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (20.55%) Degree
2 7 (9.59%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.48%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.11%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.37%) CBAP
6 1 (1.37%) CCNP
6 1 (1.37%) CFA
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) IIBA
6 1 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.44%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) PMO
3 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) MiFID
3 1 (1.37%) UCITS
System Software
1 2 (2.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.74%) Ansible
1 2 (2.74%) HP ALM
1 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Control-M
2 1 (1.37%) Grafana
2 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.37%) Puppet
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Oracle
2 8 (10.96%) SAP
3 7 (9.59%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.48%) ION Trading
5 3 (4.11%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.74%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.74%) HP
6 2 (2.74%) UiPath
6 2 (2.74%) Workday
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) Informatica
7 1 (1.37%) Juniper
7 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.37%) Murex
7 1 (1.37%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.37%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.37%) QAD
7 1 (1.37%) TOWER Software