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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 69 34
Rank change year-on-year +11 -35 +66
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 6 8 58
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.98% 1.01% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.17% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 30
10th Percentile £476 £528 £368
25th Percentile £497 £578 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £675 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +42.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £572 £731 £550
90th Percentile £589 £758 £627
Scotland median daily rate £375 £471 £475
% change year-on-year -20.30% -0.95% +3.26%

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 580 681 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.77% 86.09% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 359 560
10th Percentile £287 £213 £200
25th Percentile £413 £340 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.50%
75th Percentile £546 £525 £541
90th Percentile £608 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £479
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.05% +0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 7
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.24 £12.56
25th Percentile - £15.75 £13.22
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% -48.13% +126.67%
75th Percentile £49.35 £24.18 £53.73
90th Percentile £65.75 £51.92 £57.25
Scotland median hourly rate £19.99 £20.94 £19.06
% change year-on-year -4.55% +9.88% +1.63%

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

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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 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh

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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 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Software Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Security
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Web Flow
1 2 (33.33%) Thymeleaf
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) System Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Case Management
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft