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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 78 106
Rank change year-on-year +15 +28 -25
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 19 35 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.98% 1.83% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 2.17% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 11
10th Percentile £310 £306 £363
25th Percentile £350 £363 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £450 £520 £575
90th Percentile £580 £550 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% +5.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.98 - -
25th Percentile £23.56 - -
Median hourly rate £29.25 - -
75th Percentile £35.06 - -
90th Percentile £37.73 - -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £34.93 £62.50
% change year-on-year +68.19% -44.11% +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 868 1,614 1,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 90.42% 84.28% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 667 997
10th Percentile £230 £200 £207
25th Percentile £400 £325 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -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% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 613 325
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £72.50 £62.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £83.70 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 29 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
Bedfordshire -6 6 £490 -10.91% 32
Cambridgeshire - 6 £438 - 35
Hertfordshire +11 4 £400 +6.67% 71
Essex +14 3 £400 -27.27% 43
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 1 (5.26%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.26%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) Big Data
3 1 (5.26%) QlikView
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
1 1 (5.26%) JMeter
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.79%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Games
5 1 (5.26%) Local Government
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support
3 2 (10.53%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) SAP Financial Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (5.26%) CRM Programme Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Functional Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Operations Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Test Strategy Manager
4 1 (5.26%) UAT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) FMCG
1 2 (10.53%) Life Science
2 1 (5.26%) IoT
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.26%) PMI
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Analytics
1 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (15.79%) Integration Testing
2 3 (15.79%) Logistics
2 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.79%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
3 2 (10.53%) Agile
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
3 2 (10.53%) Functional Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Migration
3 2 (10.53%) Record to Report
3 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
3 2 (10.53%) Test Strategy
3 2 (10.53%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) CSPO
3 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.53%) PMO
2 1 (5.26%) GMP
2 1 (5.26%) GxP
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (21.05%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Anaplan
2 2 (10.53%) Ariba
2 2 (10.53%) Hyperion
3 1 (5.26%) Ingenico
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce