User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the East of England

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 66 82 103
Rank change year-on-year +16 +21 -21
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 16 30 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.71% 1.57% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 1.82% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 16
10th Percentile £350 £306 £371
25th Percentile £399 £363 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £518
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -27.64% +15.17%
75th Percentile £447 £441 £575
90th Percentile £580 £661 £591
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.25 - -
Median hourly rate £20.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £24.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +124.49% -60.80% +56.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +13 5 £400 +6.53% 25
Bedfordshire +1 5 £490 -30.00% 15
Cambridgeshire - 4 £438 - 19
Essex +13 2 - - 27
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Tableau
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Big Data
4 1 (6.25%) QlikView
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) JMeter
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Local Government
5 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) SAP Financial Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (6.25%) CRM Programme Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Functional Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Test Strategy Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Tester
5 1 (6.25%) UAT Lead
5 1 (6.25%) UAT Test Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) FMCG
1 2 (12.50%) Life Science
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) PMI
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Thinking
3 3 (18.75%) Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (18.75%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (18.75%) Logistics
3 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
3 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
4 2 (12.50%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Inventory Management
4 2 (12.50%) Profit Centre Accounting
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Record to Report
4 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) VBA
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) CSPO
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Anaplan
2 2 (12.50%) Ariba
2 2 (12.50%) Hyperion
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Ingenico
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce