UAT Lead Contracts in London

User Acceptance Testing Lead
England > London

The median User Acceptance Testing Lead daily rate in London is £436, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 398 489
Rank change year-on-year +45 +91 +101
Contract jobs requiring a UAT Lead 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.017% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.018% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £416 £566 £413
25th Percentile £421 £572 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.82% +11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £444 £597 £556
90th Percentile £446 £599 £568
England median daily rate £436 £494 £413
% change year-on-year -11.73% +19.70% -12.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,740 16,603 25,593
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.29% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,051 11,999 18,537
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £680 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 338 292
10th Percentile £20.33 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.02 £22.60
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.66 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.29% -21.55% +0.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £62.13
90th Percentile £64.50 £65.00 £78.72
England median hourly rate £30.45 £36.50 £44.53
% change year-on-year -16.58% -18.03% +97.91%

UAT Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured UAT Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for UAT Lead in London

UAT Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UAT Lead in London.

Daily rate trend for UAT Lead in London

UAT Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UAT Lead in London.

Hourly rate trend for UAT Lead in London

UAT Lead
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UAT Lead within the London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South London - 1 £425 -
UAT Lead
England

UAT Lead Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, UAT Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring UAT Lead in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Local Government
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service

UAT Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft