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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 63 36
Rank change year-on-year +4 -27 +67
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 5 7 54
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.84% 1.06% 5.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.18% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 26
10th Percentile £420 - £366
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £439 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.83% -7.53% -8.21%
75th Percentile £550 £447 £578
90th Percentile £580 £452 £632
Scotland median daily rate £425 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% -

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 552 591 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.31% 89.68% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 307 528
10th Percentile £225 £205 £212
25th Percentile £411 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £16.59 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

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 7 December 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 (40.00%) Apache
1 2 (40.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Change Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Web Flow
1 2 (40.00%) Thymeleaf
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) System Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Target Operating Model
4 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Pega
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce