User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Essex

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 3.51% 2.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 2.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
East of England median daily rate £539 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +34.92% +6.53% -25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77 75 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 67.54% 78.95% 82.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 39 115
10th Percentile £185 £180 £187
25th Percentile £300 £243 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £318 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.76% -29.23% -5.51%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £551
90th Percentile £618 £600 £600
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 38
10th Percentile £12.75 £31.00 £10.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £32.50 £13.19
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +7.69% -27.02%
75th Percentile £24.00 £117.50 £57.02
90th Percentile £62.50 £167.00 £75.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.35 £40.75 £35.83
% change year-on-year -50.06% +13.75% +19.42%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Acceptance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Essex

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 20 February 2026. 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
Basildon - 3 £300 -
Chelmsford - 1 - -
User Acceptance Testing
East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
1 1 (25.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Sourcetree
1 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) People Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian