User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for User Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 68 49
Rank change year-on-year +19 -19 0
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 20 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.44% 0.73% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 0.84% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 21
10th Percentile £306 £431 £400
25th Percentile £348 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.85% +12.39% -10.00%
75th Percentile £405 £561 £508
90th Percentile £441 £575 £650
East of England median daily rate £375 £512 £450
% change year-on-year -26.69% +13.67% -2.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 740 712 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.13% 86.62% 86.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 383 404
10th Percentile £237 £240 £202
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £701 £785 £688
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £467
% change year-on-year - +1.82% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 155 83
10th Percentile £38.12 £25.18 £20.20
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.63 £39.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +27.83% +13.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.40 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -11.43%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 25 April 2024. 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
Watford - 14 £375 - 1
Stevenage -4 1 - - 1
Royston - 1 - -
St Albans - 1 £513 - 1
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (5.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Katalon Studio
General
1 7 (35.00%) Games
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Lead
2 9 (45.00%) Test Leader
3 7 (35.00%) Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Test Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) OAT Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) OAT Test Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) SAP Test Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Qlik Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
1 8 (40.00%) Test Management
2 7 (35.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 7 (35.00%) Test Planning
3 6 (30.00%) Integration Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 2 (10.00%) Capacity Management
6 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) People Management
6 2 (10.00%) Regression Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (10.00%) Requirements Workshops
6 2 (10.00%) Scrum
6 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) HP