User Acceptance Testing Contracts in London

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 99 94 121
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 +12
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 354 427 560
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.82% 2.39% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 2.70% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 287 412
10th Percentile £363 £359 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £700
90th Percentile £783 £800 £794
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £34.40 £12.92 -
25th Percentile £39.50 £13.87 £61.25
Median hourly rate £48.00 £34.93 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.42% -44.11% +13.64%
75th Percentile £56.50 £86.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £89.95 £67.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £24.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +124.49% -60.80% +56.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
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 User Acceptance Testing within the London 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
Central London -17 64 £500 -9.09% 19
West London +13 3 £405 -1.94% 8
South London +5 3 £413 -2.94% 7
East London +5 1 £600 -22.58%
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (4.24%) Confluence
2 8 (2.26%) SAS
3 5 (1.41%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.85%) CMS
4 3 (0.85%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.28%) Drupal
5 1 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.39%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.85%) Camtasia
7 2 (0.56%) Notepad++
8 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (5.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (5.37%) Aladdin
3 14 (3.95%) Oracle Payables
4 13 (3.67%) Oracle General Ledger
5 10 (2.82%) Oracle Receivables
6 9 (2.54%) Oracle Assets
6 9 (2.54%) Oracle Cash Management
7 7 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (1.98%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
8 6 (1.69%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (1.41%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 5 (1.41%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (1.13%) CA PPM
10 4 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (1.13%) SAP CO
10 4 (1.13%) SAP FI
10 4 (1.13%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.85%) NetSuite
11 3 (0.85%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 35 (9.89%) Azure
2 19 (5.37%) AWS
3 14 (3.95%) Power Platform
4 12 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (3.11%) SaaS
6 7 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (1.98%) Power Automate
6 7 (1.98%) PowerApps
6 7 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (1.69%) OCI
8 5 (1.41%) GitHub
8 5 (1.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (0.85%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.85%) Lucidchart
9 3 (0.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.56%) BigCommerce
10 2 (0.56%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.13%) Firewall
2 2 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.56%) FTP
2 2 (0.56%) LAN
2 2 (0.56%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.56%) VPN
2 2 (0.56%) WAN
2 2 (0.56%) WebEx
3 1 (0.28%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.28%) HTTP
3 1 (0.28%) Internet
3 1 (0.28%) Multicast
3 1 (0.28%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.28%) SMS
3 1 (0.28%) SSL
3 1 (0.28%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.08%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.24%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (2.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 9 (2.54%) Oracle Database
4 9 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.98%) Power BI
5 7 (1.98%) Tableau
6 6 (1.69%) MS Access
6 6 (1.69%) RDBMS
6 6 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (0.85%) Delta Lake
8 3 (0.85%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (0.56%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 2 (0.56%) Metadata
9 2 (0.56%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 42 (11.86%) JIRA
2 9 (2.54%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.26%) QARun
3 8 (2.26%) Selenium
3 8 (2.26%) WinRunner
4 6 (1.69%) Git
4 6 (1.69%) Subversion
5 5 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.41%) Postman
6 4 (1.13%) JMeter
7 3 (0.85%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.56%) Gatling
8 2 (0.56%) GitLab
8 2 (0.56%) MSI
8 2 (0.56%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.56%) TestCafe
8 2 (0.56%) XMLSpy
General
1 188 (53.11%) Finance
2 154 (43.50%) Social Skills
3 54 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (13.84%) Front Office
5 39 (11.02%) Banking
6 23 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.37%) Marketing
8 17 (4.80%) Financial Institution
8 17 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (4.24%) Retail
10 14 (3.95%) Back Office
11 12 (3.39%) Public Sector
12 10 (2.82%) Investment Banking
13 9 (2.54%) Billing
13 9 (2.54%) General Ledger
14 8 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (2.26%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.69%) Local Government
15 6 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 132 (37.29%) Analyst
2 96 (27.12%) Business Analyst
3 48 (13.56%) Developer
4 35 (9.89%) Consultant
5 33 (9.32%) Lead
6 28 (7.91%) Senior
7 25 (7.06%) Project Manager
8 23 (6.50%) Test Analyst
9 21 (5.93%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 20 (5.65%) Business Manager
10 20 (5.65%) Test Manager
11 15 (4.24%) Test Leader
12 14 (3.95%) Financial Analyst
13 13 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.39%) Finance Business Analyst
14 12 (3.39%) Front Office Business Analyst
14 12 (3.39%) SAP Consultant
15 11 (3.11%) UAT Analyst
16 10 (2.82%) Data Analyst
16 10 (2.82%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.93%) .NET
2 11 (3.11%) Middleware
3 10 (2.82%) XML
4 9 (2.54%) .NET Framework
5 8 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (2.26%) REST
6 7 (1.98%) Entity Framework
6 7 (1.98%) Web Services
7 5 (1.41%) SOAP
7 5 (1.41%) XSLT
8 4 (1.13%) ADO
9 3 (0.85%) CSS
9 3 (0.85%) FpML
9 3 (0.85%) JSON
9 3 (0.85%) PySpark
10 2 (0.56%) IDoc
10 2 (0.56%) Plotly
10 2 (0.56%) SailPoint
10 2 (0.56%) SAP Fiori
10 2 (0.56%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.76%) Fixed Income
2 22 (6.21%) Derivative
3 19 (5.37%) Hedge funds
4 16 (4.52%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.26%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.41%) Equities
8 5 (1.41%) FMCG
8 5 (1.41%) Learning Management System
8 5 (1.41%) PMI
8 5 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.13%) OTC Derivatives
9 4 (1.13%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.08%) Windows
2 6 (1.69%) Unix
3 4 (1.13%) Linux
4 2 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (35.59%) Agile
2 101 (28.53%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (18.64%) Migration
4 63 (17.80%) Business Analysis
5 59 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 58 (16.38%) System Integration Testing
7 56 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (12.43%) Project Management
9 42 (11.86%) Business Intelligence
10 41 (11.58%) Analytics
11 40 (11.30%) DevOps
11 40 (11.30%) Integration Testing
11 40 (11.30%) Validation
12 37 (10.45%) Asset Management
13 35 (9.89%) Risk Management
14 34 (9.60%) Unit Testing
15 33 (9.32%) Data Migration
16 32 (9.04%) Test Strategy
17 29 (8.19%) Quantitative Research
17 29 (8.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 97 (27.40%) SQL
2 38 (10.73%) Python
3 26 (7.34%) C#
4 17 (4.80%) PL/SQL
5 14 (3.95%) Java
6 10 (2.82%) RPG
7 9 (2.54%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.26%) RPG IV
9 4 (1.13%) VB
10 3 (0.85%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.56%) ABAP
11 2 (0.56%) SOQL
12 1 (0.28%) Bash
12 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.28%) Groovy
12 1 (0.28%) Perl
12 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.28%) VBA
12 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (13.56%) Degree
2 43 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 37 (10.45%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.82%) PMI Certification
5 9 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.26%) CBAP
6 8 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.69%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.69%) PMP
8 2 (0.56%) IIBA
8 2 (0.56%) ISEB
8 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.28%) CCNP
9 1 (0.28%) CFA
9 1 (0.28%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (16.38%) QA
2 6 (1.69%) PMO
3 5 (1.41%) MiFID
4 4 (1.13%) EMIR
4 4 (1.13%) IFRS
5 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.85%) GDPR
6 2 (0.56%) Basel III
6 2 (0.56%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (0.56%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.56%) SEPA
7 1 (0.28%) Basel II
7 1 (0.28%) GAAP
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.28%) UCITS
System Software
1 8 (2.26%) Docker
2 3 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.56%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (3.11%) HP ALM
2 8 (2.26%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.85%) Ansible
4 3 (0.85%) SCCM
5 2 (0.56%) Control-M
6 1 (0.28%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.28%) Grafana
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.28%) Puppet
6 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (15.54%) Oracle
2 53 (14.97%) SAP
3 43 (12.15%) Microsoft
4 19 (5.37%) Salesforce
5 17 (4.80%) BISAM
6 12 (3.39%) ION Trading
7 11 (3.11%) HP
8 10 (2.82%) Workday
9 9 (2.54%) Murex
10 7 (1.98%) Charles River
11 6 (1.69%) Adobe
11 6 (1.69%) Citrix
11 6 (1.69%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.41%) Google
13 4 (1.13%) Alteryx
13 4 (1.13%) Ariba
13 4 (1.13%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.13%) Cisco
13 4 (1.13%) Concur
13 4 (1.13%) UiPath