User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Luton

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 33
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 5 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 3.52% 1.18% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 1.23% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £585 - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £550 £450 -
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 126 81 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 88.73% 95.29% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 43 118
10th Percentile £313 £170 £460
25th Percentile £408 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
Bedfordshire median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 3
10th Percentile £64.65 £20.26 £53.00
25th Percentile £77.63 £45.38 £53.75
Median hourly rate £90.50 £55.65 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.62% +1.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £91.50 £65.80 £60.25
90th Percentile - £68.00 £61.90
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £80.00 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +60.00% -9.09% -3.93%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Luton

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Luton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Luton over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Luton

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (60.00%) OneDrive
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Consultant
2 3 (60.00%) IT Consultant
2 3 (60.00%) Service Design Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 4 (80.00%) Impact Assessments
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (80.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Service Design
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Management
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (60.00%) Remedy