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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 56 56
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +23
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 24 11 19
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.03% 1.75% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 1.83% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 10
10th Percentile £414 £281 £313
25th Percentile £496 £366 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £450 £551
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -18.26% +17.44%
75th Percentile £643 £500 £725
90th Percentile £647 £523 £775
Scotland median daily rate £465 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +9.29% +6.25% -15.79%

All Process & 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 682 602 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.11% 95.56% 83.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 314 421
10th Percentile £350 £227 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £463 £470
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% -1.54% -1.05%
75th Percentile £552 £537 £550
90th Percentile £650 £600 £654
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £460
% change year-on-year - +0.54% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 31
10th Percentile £17.86 £17.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £50.00 £17.30 £16.38
Median hourly rate £53.75 £22.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +144.32% -9.02% -24.64%
75th Percentile £75.00 £29.86 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £60.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.35% +2.56% +18.18%

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 20 June 2026.

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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (54.17%) SAP GRC
1 13 (54.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.17%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (83.33%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Local Government
5 1 (4.17%) Military
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Business Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Configuration Specialist
4 4 (16.67%) SAP Financial Specialist
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Pensions Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Life and Pensions Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Migration Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Pensions Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA Specialist
7 1 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (54.17%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Derivative
2 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) OTC Derivatives
2 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) System Integration Testing
2 14 (58.33%) Analytics
3 13 (54.17%) SAP Security
4 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (37.50%) RBAC
5 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.67%) Agile
6 4 (16.67%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (12.50%) AI
7 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 3 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (12.50%) Runbook
7 3 (12.50%) User Stories
8 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
8 2 (8.33%) ITIL
8 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) CBAP
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) GRC
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) Calypso