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 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 42 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 17 26 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.26% 3.16% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 4.03% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 5
10th Percentile £328 £355 £210
25th Percentile £363 £381 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -2.86% -5.41%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £488
90th Percentile £708 £588 £555
England median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% +6.80%

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 648 645 823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.28% 78.28% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 436 620
10th Percentile £225 £229 £213
25th Percentile £332 £355 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £600
90th Percentile £600 £622 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 49 49
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.25 £13.13
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% -55.84% +79.07%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.15 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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
Northamptonshire -18 6 £418 +4.38% 3
Nottinghamshire +3 5 £410 - 3
Leicestershire 0 3 £330 -26.67% 2
Derbyshire -1 2 £825 +43.48%
Lincolnshire 0 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.88%) Fusion 360
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.88%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.88%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
1 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JUnit
1 2 (11.76%) Mockito
1 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
1 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Retail
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) Business Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Test Leader
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Retail Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) ETRM Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) HR Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.76%) Hibernate
2 2 (11.76%) JMS
2 2 (11.76%) Spring
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Derivative
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
2 4 (23.53%) ERP
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Project Management
2 4 (23.53%) Scrum
2 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
3 3 (17.65%) Use Case
3 3 (17.65%) Validation
3 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
4 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (11.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) AAT
2 1 (5.88%) ACCA
2 1 (5.88%) CIMA
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) MBA
2 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.88%) PMP
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) EMIR
2 1 (5.88%) GAAP
2 1 (5.88%) IFRS
2 1 (5.88%) MiFID
2 1 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Autodesk
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Siemens
3 1 (5.88%) Teradata
3 1 (5.88%) Trayport