User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in the North East

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 37 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +33
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 5 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.40% 1.37% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.48% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £478 £365 £428
25th Percentile £483 £388 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £413 £452
Median % change year-on-year +23.03% -8.74% -13.90%
75th Percentile £524 £438 £470
90th Percentile £525 - £473
England median daily rate £500 £514 £540
% change year-on-year -2.68% -4.86% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 317 271 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 88.55% 92.81% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 115 148
10th Percentile £170 £307 £229
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £550 £592 £569
90th Percentile £600 £712 £625
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 15
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.72 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £16.63
Median hourly rate £19.25 £28.14 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +40.68% +14.29%
75th Percentile £52.63 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £54.00 £68.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +28.57%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Durham +9 4 £508 +26.88% 3
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Manufacturing
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Lead Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Manufacturing Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) UAT Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Order Management
1 3 (60.00%) SDLC
1 3 (60.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Supply Chain Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP