User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 63 68
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 0
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 14 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.85% 1.27% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 1.43% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 7
10th Percentile £240 £307 £325
25th Percentile £311 £350 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £383 £375
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +2.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £438 £438 £513
90th Percentile £525 £477 £555
Scotland median daily rate £375 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -11.76% -10.53% +1.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 670 629 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.39% 89.09% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 415 525
10th Percentile £300 £280 £350
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 17
10th Percentile £15.09 £16.92 £11.40
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £29.34 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £42.50 £36.36
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.75
% change year-on-year -12.57% +15.82% +5.33%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Glasgow

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Glasgow over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Glasgow

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
1 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 9 (64.29%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 2 (14.29%) Front Office
4 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Billing
5 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Analyst
2 7 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Database Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) ERP Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) J2EE
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) NumPy
1 1 (7.14%) Pandas
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Data Modelling
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
2 5 (35.71%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (35.71%) Requirements Management
2 5 (35.71%) User Stories
3 4 (28.57%) Change Control
3 4 (28.57%) Dependency Management
3 4 (28.57%) Impact Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (21.43%) ERP
4 3 (21.43%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Validation
5 2 (14.29%) Data Management
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) Economics
5 2 (14.29%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) R
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) MiFID
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) Avaloq
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Workday
3 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) DocuSign
3 1 (7.14%) Kronos
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow