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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 58 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 -16 +48
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 9 8 32
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.41% 1.31% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.38% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 14
10th Percentile £403 £422 £324
25th Percentile £406 £431 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £439 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -7.53% -6.40%
75th Percentile £573 £453 £498
90th Percentile £619 £497 £579
Scotland median daily rate £464 £438 £420
% change year-on-year +6.11% +4.10% -15.95%

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 569 581 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.91% 94.78% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 330 437
10th Percentile £216 £200 £212
25th Percentile £403 £393 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £673 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 30
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.93 £14.91
25th Percentile £26.25 £21.92 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £24.44
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% -1.41% +14.93%
75th Percentile £72.00 £24.30 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £28.97 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +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 22 March 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) OCI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Local Government
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
1 7 (77.78%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Insurance Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Pensions Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Change Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Life and Pensions Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Pensions Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 1 (11.11%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
1 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (44.44%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 3 (33.33%) User Stories
3 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Target Operating Model
3 2 (22.22%) Traceability Matrix
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) Practice Management
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Pega
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce