User Acceptance Testing Contracts in England

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 119 142
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 -8
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 610 718 887
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.55% 1.96% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 2.28% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 499 614
10th Percentile £350 £329 £355
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% +5.60%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £660
90th Percentile £725 £739 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 5
10th Percentile £29.83 £12.92 £37.95
25th Percentile £40.19 £13.87 £61.25
Median hourly rate £58.75 £34.93 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -44.11% +56.25%
75th Percentile £64.69 £63.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £67.03 £74.90 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £48.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.40% -23.20% +56.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,854 31,539 42,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.92% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,225 20,657 30,069
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 2,292 1,514
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
Median % change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in England

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in England

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in England

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in England

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in England over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in England

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +34 391 £525 -4.55% 348
North of England +20 75 £495 +10.00% 306
North West +24 65 £510 +2.00% 166
South East -10 43 £425 -26.09% 453
Midlands -17 34 £463 +5.05% 265
South West +36 25 £475 +20.63% 160
East Midlands -2 23 £425 - 101
East of England +15 19 £425 +13.33% 213
West Midlands -3 11 £510 +14.93% 146
Yorkshire +3 8 £473 +5.00% 111
North East -2 2 £335 +1.52% 30
User Acceptance Testing
UK

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (4.26%) Confluence
2 10 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.98%) SAS
4 4 (0.66%) NetWeaver
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.49%) CMS
5 3 (0.49%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.33%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.16%) CICS
7 1 (0.16%) Drupal
7 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.16%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle UPK
7 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 35 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.26%) MS Visio
3 20 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
5 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.49%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.33%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.33%) Notepad++
7 2 (0.33%) Trello
8 1 (0.16%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (6.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (4.26%) Oracle EBS
3 21 (3.44%) Aladdin
4 19 (3.11%) Oracle Payables
5 16 (2.62%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (1.97%) Oracle Assets
7 11 (1.80%) Oracle Receivables
8 10 (1.64%) Oracle EBS R12
9 9 (1.48%) Oracle Cash Management
10 8 (1.31%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 7 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
11 7 (1.15%) SAP CO
11 7 (1.15%) SAP FI
11 7 (1.15%) SAP FI/CO
11 7 (1.15%) Unit4 Business World
12 6 (0.98%) Oracle Financials
13 5 (0.82%) ION Anvil
13 5 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
14 4 (0.66%) SAP EWM
14 4 (0.66%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 69 (11.31%) Azure
2 37 (6.07%) Power Platform
3 32 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (3.61%) AWS
5 20 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
6 17 (2.79%) SaaS
7 16 (2.62%) OCI
8 11 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (1.80%) PowerApps
9 10 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.48%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.15%) GitHub
11 7 (1.15%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.82%) Adobe Analytics
12 5 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (0.66%) GCP
13 4 (0.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 3 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (0.49%) Azure Pipelines
14 3 (0.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.48%) Firewall
2 4 (0.66%) HTTP
3 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.33%) Internet
3 2 (0.33%) LAN
3 2 (0.33%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.33%) WAN
3 2 (0.33%) WebEx
4 1 (0.16%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.16%) Intranet
4 1 (0.16%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.16%) Multicast
4 1 (0.16%) NAS
4 1 (0.16%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.16%) SAN
4 1 (0.16%) SMS
4 1 (0.16%) SSL
4 1 (0.16%) VoWiFi
4 1 (0.16%) VPN
4 1 (0.16%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (4.43%) Power BI
2 24 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 21 (3.44%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 12 (1.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (1.97%) Tableau
6 11 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.48%) Oracle Database
8 8 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.98%) MS Access
11 4 (0.66%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.66%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.49%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (0.49%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.49%) Metadata
12 3 (0.49%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 75 (12.30%) JIRA
2 16 (2.62%) Selenium
3 11 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.31%) JMeter
4 8 (1.31%) QARun
4 8 (1.31%) WinRunner
5 7 (1.15%) Zephyr
6 6 (0.98%) Git
6 6 (0.98%) Postman
7 5 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.82%) GitLab
7 5 (0.82%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.82%) Subversion
8 4 (0.66%) MSI
8 4 (0.66%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.49%) JUnit
9 3 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.49%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.33%) MagicDraw
10 2 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 258 (42.30%) Finance
2 249 (40.82%) Social Skills
3 110 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.51%) Front Office
5 51 (8.36%) Banking
6 32 (5.25%) Public Sector
7 30 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
8 29 (4.75%) Retail
9 27 (4.43%) Marketing
10 23 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (3.61%) Manufacturing
11 22 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (3.28%) Financial Institution
13 19 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (2.62%) Back Office
15 13 (2.13%) General Ledger
16 12 (1.97%) Investment Banking
16 12 (1.97%) Local Government
17 9 (1.48%) Legal
18 8 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 219 (35.90%) Analyst
2 159 (26.07%) Business Analyst
3 69 (11.31%) Developer
4 60 (9.84%) Consultant
5 49 (8.03%) Lead
6 44 (7.21%) Senior
7 41 (6.72%) Test Manager
8 37 (6.07%) Test Analyst
9 35 (5.74%) Project Manager
10 25 (4.10%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 25 (4.10%) Senior Analyst
11 24 (3.93%) Test Leader
12 22 (3.61%) Business Manager
13 21 (3.44%) Tester
14 20 (3.28%) Financial Analyst
15 19 (3.11%) SAP Consultant
16 15 (2.46%) Data Analyst
16 15 (2.46%) Finance Business Analyst
16 15 (2.46%) Senior Business Analyst
17 14 (2.30%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.43%) .NET
2 22 (3.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (2.62%) XML
4 12 (1.97%) Middleware
5 10 (1.64%) REST
6 8 (1.31%) .NET Framework
6 8 (1.31%) SOAP
6 8 (1.31%) Web Services
6 8 (1.31%) XSLT
7 7 (1.15%) Entity Framework
8 6 (0.98%) JMS
9 5 (0.82%) ADO
9 5 (0.82%) EDI
9 5 (0.82%) JSON
9 5 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (0.82%) SAP PI
10 4 (0.66%) IDoc
10 4 (0.66%) JDBC
11 3 (0.49%) CSS
11 3 (0.49%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.57%) Fixed Income
2 28 (4.59%) Derivative
2 28 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 21 (3.44%) Hedge funds
3 21 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.62%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.97%) CMDB
6 12 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 12 (1.97%) Virtual Team
7 11 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.80%) PMI
8 8 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.15%) FMCG
9 7 (1.15%) Life Science
10 6 (0.98%) Equities
10 6 (0.98%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.26%) Windows
2 9 (1.48%) Unix
3 4 (0.66%) Linux
4 3 (0.49%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.16%) Android
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (34.26%) Agile
2 168 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
3 119 (19.51%) Migration
4 103 (16.89%) Test Automation
5 102 (16.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 102 (16.72%) System Integration Testing
6 94 (15.41%) Business Analysis
7 91 (14.92%) Validation
8 76 (12.46%) Project Management
8 76 (12.46%) Test Strategy
9 75 (12.30%) Integration Testing
10 74 (12.13%) DevOps
11 68 (11.15%) Business Intelligence
12 64 (10.49%) Data Migration
13 60 (9.84%) Analytics
14 55 (9.02%) Risk Management
15 54 (8.85%) ERP
16 53 (8.69%) Data Analysis
17 52 (8.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 51 (8.36%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 143 (23.44%) SQL
2 47 (7.70%) Python
3 32 (5.25%) C#
4 30 (4.92%) PL/SQL
5 19 (3.11%) Java
6 16 (2.62%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.80%) ABAP
8 8 (1.31%) RPG
9 7 (1.15%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.98%) RPG IV
11 4 (0.66%) Bash
11 4 (0.66%) VB
12 3 (0.49%) Groovy
12 3 (0.49%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.33%) SOQL
13 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.16%) COBOL
14 1 (0.16%) Perl
14 1 (0.16%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 79 (12.95%) Degree
2 75 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 60 (9.84%) SC Cleared
4 20 (3.28%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.79%) PMI Certification
6 11 (1.80%) CBAP
7 8 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 7 (1.15%) PMP
9 6 (0.98%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.49%) ACCA
10 3 (0.49%) CCNP
10 3 (0.49%) CIMA
10 3 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.49%) ISEB
10 3 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.33%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (16.39%) QA
2 14 (2.30%) PMO
3 9 (1.48%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.31%) GDPR
4 8 (1.31%) IFRS
4 8 (1.31%) MiFID
5 5 (0.82%) GxP
6 4 (0.66%) Basel III
6 4 (0.66%) EMIR
6 4 (0.66%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.66%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.49%) GAAP
7 3 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.16%) Basel II
9 1 (0.16%) FATCA
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.16%) UCITS
System Software
1 8 (1.31%) Docker
2 4 (0.66%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
4 1 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.16%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (2.46%) HP ALM
2 10 (1.64%) Ansible
2 10 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.64%) SCCM
3 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.33%) Control-M
5 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) Graphite
5 1 (0.16%) OPNET
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.16%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.16%) Puppet
5 1 (0.16%) SCOM
5 1 (0.16%) Terraform
5 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.16%) vMotion
Vendors
1 105 (17.21%) Oracle
2 97 (15.90%) SAP
3 68 (11.15%) Microsoft
4 25 (4.10%) Salesforce
4 25 (4.10%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.11%) BISAM
6 15 (2.46%) HP
7 14 (2.30%) ION Trading
8 13 (2.13%) Workday
9 12 (1.97%) Murex
10 9 (1.48%) UiPath
11 8 (1.31%) Adobe
12 7 (1.15%) Ariba
13 6 (0.98%) Alteryx
13 6 (0.98%) Charles River
13 6 (0.98%) Citrix
14 5 (0.82%) Cisco
15 4 (0.66%) Broadcom
15 4 (0.66%) Google
15 4 (0.66%) IBM