User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Leeds

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 57 54 77
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 +5
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 3 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.65% 1.13% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 1.30% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £460 - £441
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £525 - £600
90th Percentile £540 - £800
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Leeds

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Leeds

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Leeds

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Jasmine
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Security
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes