User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 33 78
Rank change year-on-year -1 +45 -2
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 22 33 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.10% 4.27% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 5.47% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 5
10th Percentile £317 £355 £270
25th Percentile £350 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £443 £438
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% +1.26% -1.69%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £475
90th Percentile £508 £610 £550
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing User Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire +10 8 £500 -16.67% 3
Northamptonshire -11 6 £425 +9.68% 4
Leicestershire +9 4 £330 -26.67% 2
Derbyshire +4 3 £563 -2.17% 2
Lincolnshire +3 1 - - 3
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.55%) Fusion 360
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.55%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 6 (27.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (4.55%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
1 8 (36.36%) Retail
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Lead
3 4 (18.18%) Consultant
3 4 (18.18%) Test Leader
4 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL Developer
4 3 (13.64%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) SQL Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Process Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Retail Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Programme Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) JSON
2 1 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (18.18%) Agile
1 4 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (13.64%) ERP
2 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (13.64%) System Testing
2 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
3 2 (9.09%) Accounts Payable
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
3 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis
3 2 (9.09%) Functional Testing
3 2 (9.09%) Master Data Management
3 2 (9.09%) Migration
3 2 (9.09%) Performance Testing
3 2 (9.09%) Project Management
3 2 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (9.09%) Test Scripting
3 2 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) AAT
2 1 (4.55%) ACCA
2 1 (4.55%) CIMA
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.55%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) GAAP
2 2 (9.09%) IFRS
3 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) SAP
3 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Autodesk
4 1 (4.55%) Cognos
4 1 (4.55%) Siemens