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

6 months to
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 44 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +23 +9
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 16 24 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.11% 2.97% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 3.80% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 4
10th Percentile £367 £355 £201
25th Percentile £408 £384 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% -18.92%
75th Percentile £659 £522 £516
90th Percentile £725 £588 £566
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 652 632 802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.13% 78.12% 85.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 428 604
10th Percentile £225 £237 £213
25th Percentile £334 £355 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% -5.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £566 £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 47 46
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.22 £13.08
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £20.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.50 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -60.89% +108.14%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.15 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +65.38%

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 25 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 25 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 -19 7 £425 - 5
Nottinghamshire +5 5 £410 - 4
Derbyshire +1 2 £825 +43.48%
Lincolnshire 0 1 - -
Leicestershire -1 1 £525 +16.67% 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.25%) Fusion 360
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.25%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JUnit
1 2 (12.50%) Mockito
1 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
1 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Retail
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) General Ledger
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Retail Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) ETRM Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) HR Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Hibernate
1 2 (12.50%) JMS
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
1 2 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 2 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (6.25%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Scrum
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (25.00%) Validation
3 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) Change Control
4 3 (18.75%) ERP
4 3 (18.75%) Requirements Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
4 3 (18.75%) Use Case
5 2 (12.50%) Code Coverage
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 2 (12.50%) PMP
3 1 (6.25%) AAT
3 1 (6.25%) ACCA
3 1 (6.25%) CIMA
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) MBA
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) EMIR
2 1 (6.25%) GAAP
2 1 (6.25%) IFRS
2 1 (6.25%) MiFID
2 1 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Autodesk
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Siemens
3 1 (6.25%) Teradata
3 1 (6.25%) Trayport