User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 38 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 -14 -
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 22 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 7.83% 0.57% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 0.60% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 1 6
10th Percentile £276 - £511
25th Percentile £394 £406 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% -23.61% -
75th Percentile £492 £419 £546
90th Percentile £500 - £557
Cheshire median daily rate £452 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -9.55% -7.41% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 270 168 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.09% 95.45% 96.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 137 66
10th Percentile £310 £336 £450
25th Percentile £358 £360 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £430 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -20.00% +10.82%
75th Percentile £492 £550 £587
90th Percentile £561 £685 £595
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £493 £525
% change year-on-year -9.75% -6.08% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.43 £27.39 £23.07
% change year-on-year -18.09% +18.70% +51.28%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Knutsford

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Knutsford over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Knutsford

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) JIRA
2 11 (50.00%) Git
3 4 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 4 (18.18%) GitLab
3 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 4 (18.18%) JUnit
4 3 (13.64%) TestRail
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Banking
3 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
2 9 (40.91%) Java Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Analyst
3 6 (27.27%) Business Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Tester
4 3 (13.64%) UAT Tester
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Product Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Product Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Product Owner
6 1 (4.55%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) REST
1 11 (50.00%) Spring
1 11 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (31.82%) JMS
3 5 (22.73%) Kafka
4 4 (18.18%) React
4 4 (18.18%) RESTful
5 2 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (31.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.55%) CMDB
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Agile
2 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (54.55%) SDLC
4 9 (40.91%) Requirements Gathering
5 8 (36.36%) AI
5 8 (36.36%) DevOps
5 8 (36.36%) Scrum
6 7 (31.82%) Acceptance Criteria
6 7 (31.82%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
6 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
7 6 (27.27%) Migration
7 6 (27.27%) Test Automation
8 5 (22.73%) Microservices
8 5 (22.73%) Sprint Planning
8 5 (22.73%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) SQL
2 11 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (13.64%) Degree
3 2 (9.09%) CBAP
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (54.55%) QA
2 8 (36.36%) ISO 20022
2 8 (36.36%) SEPA
3 7 (31.82%) PSD2
4 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
5 1 (4.55%) GDPR
5 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.64%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
4 3 (13.64%) HP
5 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.55%) Databricks
6 1 (4.55%) IBM
6 1 (4.55%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (4.55%) OpenAI