User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Dorset

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 3.43% 0.87% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 0.97% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £361 - -
25th Percentile £376 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £488 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 103 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 76.96% 89.57% 87.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 67 95
10th Percentile £350 £196 £175
25th Percentile £396 £331 £176
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.79% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £636 £550 £630
90th Percentile £743 £575 £718
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 23
10th Percentile £21.00 £14.96 -
25th Percentile £24.13 £15.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £60.33 £15.50 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +289.23% -38.44% -55.27%
75th Percentile £72.02 £15.75 £47.83
90th Percentile £72.82 £67.50 £61.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Acceptance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Dorset

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Dorset over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Dorset

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 24 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
Bournemouth -5 6 £515 -
Poole - 1 £350 - 1
User Acceptance Testing
South West

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Appium
2 1 (14.29%) HP UFT
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Robot Framework
2 1 (14.29%) TestRail
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Investment Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Financial Institution
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
4 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Programme Management
5 2 (28.57%) Validation
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
6 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Smoke Testing
6 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
6 1 (14.29%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft