User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the Midlands

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 71 70 112
Rank change year-on-year -1 +42 +9
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 40 63 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.09% 2.29% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.78% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 54 27
10th Percentile £316 £319 £318
25th Percentile £375 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £501 £525 £538
90th Percentile £633 £588 £585
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.41
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
East Midlands -1 22 £425 -4.06% 14
West Midlands +3 18 £495 +7.03% 29
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.50%) Appian
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
1 1 (2.50%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) Fusion 360
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.50%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 8 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) Azure
1 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.50%) Figma
2 1 (2.50%) GitHub
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.50%) SaaS
2 1 (2.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.50%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.50%) Selenium
3 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
3 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
2 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Retail
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (5.00%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Consultant
2 6 (15.00%) Lead
3 4 (10.00%) Test Leader
3 4 (10.00%) Tester
4 3 (7.50%) Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (7.50%) PL/SQL Developer
4 3 (7.50%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Test Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Network Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Process Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) QA Leader
5 2 (5.00%) QA Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Retail Business Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) ADO
2 1 (2.50%) JSON
2 1 (2.50%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) SCADA
2 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.50%) Derivative
2 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Agile
2 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (15.00%) Test Strategy
4 5 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 5 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (12.50%) Test Management
4 5 (12.50%) Waterfall
5 4 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (10.00%) Integration Testing
5 4 (10.00%) Migration
5 4 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (10.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (7.50%) Functional Testing
6 3 (7.50%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (7.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (7.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) SQL
2 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.50%) C#
3 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) CCNP
2 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (2.50%) AAT
3 1 (2.50%) ACCA
3 1 (2.50%) CIMA
3 1 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) GAAP
2 2 (5.00%) IFRS
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Oracle
2 8 (20.00%) SAP
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.50%) Autodesk
5 1 (2.50%) AVEVA
5 1 (2.50%) Cognos
5 1 (2.50%) Infor
5 1 (2.50%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.50%) Siemens