User Acceptance Testing Contracts in London

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 125 131
Rank change year-on-year +26 +6 +40
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 426 550 854
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.41% 2.05% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.26% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 410 611
10th Percentile £359 £363 £363
25th Percentile £428 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +3.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £651
90th Percentile £800 £800 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £12.92 - £23.80
25th Percentile £13.24 £61.25 £35.50
Median hourly rate £15.52 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.17% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £44.34 £65.31 £63.38
90th Percentile £75.75 £68.13 £68.40
England median hourly rate £16.86 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -73.02% +56.25% +58.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,688 24,387 35,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 91.02% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,246 17,526 26,214
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 276 425
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.56 £17.20
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +7.11% +10.84%
75th Percentile £47.34 £64.06 £50.75
90th Percentile £65.68 £80.00 £68.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 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
Central London +59 104 £550 -4.35% 10
East London +4 11 £775 +78.16% 2
South London +15 5 £425 -20.00% 3
North London - 3 £375 -
West London +9 2 £413 -19.51% 5
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 25 (5.87%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.05%) Confluence
3 8 (1.88%) SAS
4 2 (0.47%) CMS
5 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (3.52%) Oracle Applications
2 11 (2.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (2.11%) Dynamics GP
4 8 (1.88%) ION MarketView
5 7 (1.64%) Loan IQ
6 5 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (1.17%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.70%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle AGIS
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle HRMS
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.70%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.70%) SAP PP
7 3 (0.70%) SAP VC
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 54 (12.68%) Azure
2 16 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
2 16 (3.76%) OCI
2 16 (3.76%) Power Platform
3 11 (2.58%) AWS
4 10 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (2.35%) Oracle CX
4 10 (2.35%) SaaS
4 10 (2.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 6 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.17%) Miro
6 5 (1.17%) SAP Fieldglass
7 3 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (0.70%) Serverless
8 2 (0.47%) Azure Functions
8 2 (0.47%) GitHub
8 2 (0.47%) Google Play
9 1 (0.23%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.23%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.35%) NetScaler
2 5 (1.17%) 5G
2 5 (1.17%) SSH
3 4 (0.94%) VLAN
3 4 (0.94%) WAN
3 4 (0.94%) Wireless
4 3 (0.70%) Firewall
4 3 (0.70%) SD-WAN
4 3 (0.70%) VPN
5 2 (0.47%) BGP
5 2 (0.47%) CTI
5 2 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (0.47%) H.323
5 2 (0.47%) MPLS
5 2 (0.47%) Network Security
6 1 (0.23%) DNS
6 1 (0.23%) DVB
6 1 (0.23%) Internet
6 1 (0.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.93%) SQL Server
2 18 (4.23%) Oracle Reports
3 17 (3.99%) KDB
4 15 (3.52%) Power BI
5 14 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.17%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 5 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (0.94%) SAP HANA
9 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.70%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.70%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.47%) Tableau
11 1 (0.23%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.23%) Big Data
11 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.23%) Impala
11 1 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 50 (11.74%) JIRA
2 13 (3.05%) Cucumber
3 10 (2.35%) TestRail
4 8 (1.88%) Git
4 8 (1.88%) JMeter
4 8 (1.88%) JUnit
4 8 (1.88%) LoadRunner
4 8 (1.88%) Selenium
5 7 (1.64%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.17%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.70%) FitNesse
7 3 (0.70%) Maven
7 3 (0.70%) Postman
7 3 (0.70%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.47%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.47%) Gradle
8 2 (0.47%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.47%) NUnit
8 2 (0.47%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 151 (35.45%) Finance
2 118 (27.70%) Social Skills
3 52 (12.21%) Banking
4 49 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 23 (5.40%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (4.93%) Front Office
8 20 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.52%) Investment Banking
10 14 (3.29%) Back Office
11 10 (2.35%) Retail
12 8 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.88%) Marketing
13 6 (1.41%) Billing
13 6 (1.41%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.41%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.17%) Retail Banking
15 4 (0.94%) General Ledger
16 3 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 125 (29.34%) Analyst
2 90 (21.13%) Business Analyst
3 52 (12.21%) Developer
4 50 (11.74%) Senior
5 39 (9.15%) Lead
6 33 (7.75%) Project Manager
7 29 (6.81%) Consultant
8 25 (5.87%) Java Developer
9 21 (4.93%) Test Analyst
10 17 (3.99%) Architect
10 17 (3.99%) Test Leader
11 16 (3.76%) Test Manager
11 16 (3.76%) Tester
12 14 (3.29%) Data Business Analyst
12 14 (3.29%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.05%) Data Migration Business Analyst
13 13 (3.05%) Finance Business Analyst
13 13 (3.05%) Financial Analyst
13 13 (3.05%) Migration Analyst
13 13 (3.05%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.76%) XML
2 12 (2.82%) .NET
2 12 (2.82%) REST
2 12 (2.82%) Spring
3 11 (2.58%) ADO
3 11 (2.58%) JSON
4 9 (2.11%) SAML
5 8 (1.88%) Web Services
6 6 (1.41%) SOAP
7 5 (1.17%) Hibernate
7 5 (1.17%) J2EE
7 5 (1.17%) JPA
8 3 (0.70%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.70%) SAP PI
9 2 (0.47%) CSS
9 2 (0.47%) Dojo
9 2 (0.47%) HTML
9 2 (0.47%) Middleware
9 2 (0.47%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.93%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.99%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.29%) Derivative
3 14 (3.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (3.05%) Reinsurance
5 12 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 11 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.35%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.11%) Algorithms
8 9 (2.11%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.11%) Fixed Income
8 9 (2.11%) Market Risk
9 7 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.17%) Equities
10 5 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.16%) Windows
2 15 (3.52%) Linux
3 7 (1.64%) Unix
4 5 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.17%) VMS
5 4 (0.94%) Android
5 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (27.46%) Agile
2 80 (18.78%) Migration
3 62 (14.55%) System Integration Testing
4 61 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (14.08%) Test Automation
6 57 (13.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 55 (12.91%) User Stories
8 54 (12.68%) Project Management
9 49 (11.50%) SDLC
10 46 (10.80%) Data Migration
10 46 (10.80%) Test Strategy
11 44 (10.33%) Test Scripting
12 42 (9.86%) Business Analysis
13 41 (9.62%) DevOps
14 38 (8.92%) Validation
15 37 (8.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 32 (7.51%) GAP Analysis
17 31 (7.28%) Defect Management
17 31 (7.28%) Integration Testing
18 29 (6.81%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 75 (17.61%) SQL
2 42 (9.86%) Python
3 37 (8.69%) Java
4 21 (4.93%) C#
5 10 (2.35%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.64%) Perl
7 6 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.17%) C++
9 4 (0.94%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.94%) XPath
9 4 (0.94%) XQuery
10 3 (0.70%) F#
10 3 (0.70%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.70%) VBA
10 3 (0.70%) VBScript
11 2 (0.47%) ABAP
11 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.23%) C
12 1 (0.23%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (11.97%) Degree
2 25 (5.87%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.76%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.35%) ISTQB
6 7 (1.64%) ISEB
7 4 (0.94%) CCNA
7 4 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (0.94%) SAP Certification
8 3 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.47%) PMP
10 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.23%) CBAP
10 1 (0.23%) IIBA
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (17.61%) QA
2 21 (4.93%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.58%) SLA
4 9 (2.11%) PMO
4 9 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (1.88%) EMIR
6 6 (1.41%) MiFID
7 5 (1.17%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.70%) HL7
8 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.47%) Basel III
9 2 (0.47%) COREP
9 2 (0.47%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.47%) FINREP
9 2 (0.47%) GDPR
10 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (0.47%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (1.17%) SCCM
2 4 (0.94%) Iperf
3 2 (0.47%) Control-M
3 2 (0.47%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.23%) Grafana
4 1 (0.23%) Kibana
4 1 (0.23%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.23%) logstash
4 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (9.86%) SAP
2 40 (9.39%) Microsoft
3 35 (8.22%) Oracle
4 18 (4.23%) ION Trading
5 15 (3.52%) Citrix
6 10 (2.35%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.41%) Bloomberg
7 6 (1.41%) Calypso
7 6 (1.41%) Cisco
7 6 (1.41%) Refinitiv
7 6 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.17%) Reuters
9 4 (0.94%) Google
9 4 (0.94%) Murex
9 4 (0.94%) NEC
9 4 (0.94%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.94%) Workday
10 3 (0.70%) BT
10 3 (0.70%) CyberSource
10 3 (0.70%) Tradeweb