User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 40 40
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 -27
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 14 7 21
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.93% 2.31% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.53% 2.69% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 15
10th Percentile £261 £363 £478
25th Percentile £270 £386 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £481 £575
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -16.30% +44.65%
75th Percentile £425 £601 £628
90th Percentile £599 £638 £680
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £394 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -25.00% -8.70% +44.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 253 260 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 89.08% 85.81% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 187 413
10th Percentile £228 £249 £276
25th Percentile £350 £396 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -7.77% +6.19%
75th Percentile £543 £550 £600
90th Percentile £639 £633 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £438 £475 £515
% change year-on-year -7.89% -7.77% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 13
10th Percentile £15.12 £14.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.83 £13.57
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% +28.05% +60.78%
75th Percentile - £36.19 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.12 £28.80
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.00 £30.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +46.34% +49.09%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Milton Keynes

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Assets
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle General Ledger
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Payables
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Receivables
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Figma
1 1 (7.14%) GitHub
1 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SAP HANA
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) General Ledger
3 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Business Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Test Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Test Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Salesforce Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Migration Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Fibre Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Release Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) UAT Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (14.29%) SAP PI
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Defect Management
2 6 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 5 (35.71%) Regression Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (28.57%) System Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
5 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (21.43%) Test Assurance
5 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
5 3 (21.43%) User Stories
6 2 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (14.29%) ITIL
6 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) ISEB
2 1 (7.14%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
2 2 (14.29%) PMO
3 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
1 3 (21.43%) Salesforce
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (7.14%) BT
3 1 (7.14%) Compaq
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Openreach
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Terracotta
3 1 (7.14%) webMethods