User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 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 45 42 33
Rank change year-on-year -3 -9 +25
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 2 12 23
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.62% 2.90% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 3.26% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 20
10th Percentile £407 £376 £500
25th Percentile £408 £515 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £564 £533
Median % change year-on-year -25.72% +5.87% -
75th Percentile £433 £638 £775
90th Percentile £436 - -
South West median daily rate £425 £469 £525
% change year-on-year -9.33% -10.71% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 368 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 88.51% 88.89% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 196 258
10th Percentile £277 £400 £359
25th Percentile £380 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £669 £676 £675
90th Percentile £742 £750 £750
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 28 51
10th Percentile £19.14 £26.35 £33.00
25th Percentile £26.96 £29.50 £48.72
Median hourly rate £33.76 £37.52 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% -31.79% +24.96%
75th Percentile £65.69 £71.50 £78.18
90th Percentile £68.60 £73.75 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.60% +9.17% -6.05%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Gloucester -18 2 £419 -27.97% 1
User Acceptance Testing
South West

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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