User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 68 42
Rank change year-on-year +11 -26 +62
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 7 7 52
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.13% 0.98% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.12% 5.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 25
10th Percentile £420 - £365
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £439 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.83% -7.53% -11.63%
75th Percentile £550 £447 £588
90th Percentile £580 £452 £633
Scotland median daily rate £400 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -8.57% -7.89% +0.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 581 623 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.17% 87.01% 91.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 316 568
10th Percentile £250 £227 £200
25th Percentile £408 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £532 £543
90th Percentile £600 £619 £611
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £481
% change year-on-year +2.78% -6.40% +1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 9
10th Percentile £16.55 £14.32 £12.95
25th Percentile - £19.81 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% -33.44% +76.32%
75th Percentile £60.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £72.50 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.34
% change year-on-year -12.57% +18.28% +3.15%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Acceptance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 16 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
1 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Change Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) SOAP
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Security
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Web Flow
1 2 (28.57%) Thymeleaf
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
1 2 (28.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) System Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
4 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (28.57%) Defect Tracking
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Pega
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce