User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 53 69
Rank change year-on-year +13 +16 -19
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 5 20 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.56% 2.40% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.66% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 5
10th Percentile - £306 £418
25th Percentile £399 £348 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £512
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% -26.69% +13.67%
75th Percentile £438 £395 £575
90th Percentile - £441 -
East of England median daily rate £425 £375 £518
% change year-on-year +13.33% -27.64% +15.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 753 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.79% 90.29% 86.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 277 374
10th Percentile £384 £232 £240
25th Percentile £446 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £705 £768
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 314 156
10th Percentile £22.65 £38.12 £21.00
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.00 £53.69
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -23.08% +27.83%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.25
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Welwyn Garden City - 3 £400 - 2
Watford -4 1 £425 +13.33% 9
User Acceptance Testing
East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (20.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Logistics
4 1 (20.00%) Matrix Management
4 1 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft