User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Edinburgh

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 59 74
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +26
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 11 19 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.68% 2.18% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 2.57% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 18
10th Percentile £281 £313 £393
25th Percentile £366 £470 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £551 £463
Median % change year-on-year -18.26% +19.03% -
75th Percentile £500 £725 £538
90th Percentile £523 £775 £630
Scotland median daily rate £425 £400 £470
% change year-on-year +6.25% -14.85% +4.39%

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 622 738 1,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.25% 84.54% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 417 765
10th Percentile £223 £213 £247
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -2.42% -1.04%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £601
Scotland median daily rate £464 £459 £475
% change year-on-year +1.03% -3.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 6
10th Percentile £17.15 £13.22 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -40.25% +42.92%
75th Percentile £31.34 £60.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £61.00 - £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £15.25
% change year-on-year +2.09% +28.50% -59.27%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing User Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Confluence
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) MSTest
2 1 (9.09%) NUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) Ranorex
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) TestRail
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Business Data Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Data Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) ETL Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Re-Platforming Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Test Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (9.09%) Playwright
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
1 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
1 1 (9.09%) XML
1 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
1 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
2 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
3 3 (27.27%) Business Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (27.27%) Defect Tracking
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Re-Platforming
3 3 (27.27%) Software Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle