User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 14 16
Rank change year-on-year -18 +2 -
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 2 6 17
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 1.57% 7.59% 14.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 7.89% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 15
10th Percentile £407 £520 £510
25th Percentile £408 £521 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £581 £540
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% +7.66% -
75th Percentile £433 £638 £738
90th Percentile £436 - £775
Gloucestershire median daily rate £419 £564 £533
% change year-on-year -25.72% +5.87% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 76 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 96.06% 96.20% 95.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 55 83
10th Percentile £225 £400 £380
25th Percentile £356 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +1.15%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £743 £750 £749
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £21.66 - £54.20
25th Percentile £22.97 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.35% -70.51% -
75th Percentile £41.95 £23.50 £84.00
90th Percentile £52.03 - £90.00
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.76 £37.52 £55.00
% change year-on-year -10.02% -31.79% +24.96%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Gloucester

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Compatibility Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow