User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Manchester

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 54 64 74
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 +40
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 25 32 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.70% 2.11% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.42% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 31
10th Percentile £210 £356 £350
25th Percentile £300 £444 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £668 £538 £481
90th Percentile £703 - £575
North West median daily rate £511 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +2.13% +11.11% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Manchester

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Manchester

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (4.00%) CICS
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (12.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (4.00%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) Azure
1 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
1 1 (4.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JMeter
1 4 (16.00%) LoadRunner
1 4 (16.00%) Selenium
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 19 (76.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Marketing
5 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Automotive
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Migration Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Data Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Data Migration Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Analyst
3 6 (24.00%) Tester
4 4 (16.00%) Business Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Software Tester
5 2 (8.00%) Consultant
5 2 (8.00%) Programme Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Programme Manager
6 1 (4.00%) SAP Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) SAP Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.00%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Validation
2 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (48.00%) Migration
4 11 (44.00%) Data Migration
5 10 (40.00%) Data Mapping
5 10 (40.00%) Data Modelling
6 9 (36.00%) ETL
7 8 (32.00%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (20.00%) Data Validation
8 5 (20.00%) Integration Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Performance Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Process Improvement
8 5 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
8 5 (20.00%) System Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Test Strategy
9 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
9 4 (16.00%) DevOps
9 4 (16.00%) Manual Testing
9 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
9 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.00%) PMP
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) IBM