User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 34 26
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 +30
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 3 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.68% 0.44% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.50% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £298
25th Percentile £306 £328 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £335 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% -25.56% +63.64%
75th Percentile £319 £343 £465
90th Percentile - - £471
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £313 £335 £450
% change year-on-year -6.72% -25.56% +63.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 370 201 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 84.47% 88.16% 84.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 145 85
10th Percentile £281 £268 £235
25th Percentile £380 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £600
90th Percentile £588 £625 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £477
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -13.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 3 18
10th Percentile £17.00 £14.85 £18.25
25th Percentile £48.63 £15.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £60.58 £16.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +267.15% -65.26% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £33.50 £50.00
90th Percentile - £42.65 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £60.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +263.64% -5.71% -

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP CO
1 2 (66.67%) SAP FI
1 2 (66.67%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Business Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Business Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Financial Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Financial Support
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Support
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Support Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Support Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Process Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AAT
1 2 (66.67%) ACCA
1 2 (66.67%) CIMA
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP