User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the North of England

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 94 111 114
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +20
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 73 75 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.22% 1.57% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 1.83% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 57 75
10th Percentile £320 £322 £352
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £545
90th Percentile £671 £560 £668
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £27.08 - -
25th Percentile £36.19 - -
Median hourly rate £52.75 - -
75th Percentile £69.69 - -
90th Percentile £79.03 - -
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
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the North of England

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the North of England

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the North of England

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the North of England

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the North of England

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +29 64 £511 +2.13% 43
Yorkshire -4 7 £495 +10.00% 15
North East -3 2 £335 -14.10% 4
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (5.48%) NetWeaver
2 2 (2.74%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.74%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.37%) CICS
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (9.59%) MS Visio
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (9.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.74%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (1.37%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.22%) Azure
2 5 (6.85%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.11%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.37%) AWS
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.37%) GCP
4 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.37%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) HTTP
2 3 (4.11%) Firewall
3 1 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (1.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) Power BI
2 3 (4.11%) Data Lake
2 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.74%) GIS
3 2 (2.74%) MSDE
3 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.37%) DTS
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) MySQL
4 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.37%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) JIRA
2 4 (5.48%) JMeter
2 4 (5.48%) LoadRunner
2 4 (5.48%) Selenium
3 2 (2.74%) GitLab
4 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.37%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.37%) JUnit
4 1 (1.37%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (1.37%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (47.95%) Social Skills
2 24 (32.88%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (19.18%) Finance
4 8 (10.96%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.22%) Manufacturing
5 6 (8.22%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.11%) Banking
6 3 (4.11%) Marketing
6 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.37%) Automotive
8 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) Analyst
2 17 (23.29%) Business Analyst
3 10 (13.70%) Developer
3 10 (13.70%) Tester
4 9 (12.33%) Migration Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Data Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Data Migration Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) SAP Developer
5 7 (9.59%) Senior
5 7 (9.59%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 6 (8.22%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Integration Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Lead
8 4 (5.48%) Software Tester
8 4 (5.48%) Test Manager
9 3 (4.11%) ABAP Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Administrator
9 3 (4.11%) Consultant
9 3 (4.11%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) EDI
1 4 (5.48%) IDoc
1 4 (5.48%) JDBC
1 4 (5.48%) JMS
1 4 (5.48%) Middleware
1 4 (5.48%) REST
1 4 (5.48%) SAP PI
1 4 (5.48%) SOAP
1 4 (5.48%) XML
1 4 (5.48%) XSLT
2 2 (2.74%) .NET
2 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.37%) ISPF
3 1 (1.37%) RESTful
3 1 (1.37%) Spring
3 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.37%) Spring Security
3 1 (1.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (10.96%) CMDB
3 6 (8.22%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.48%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
6 3 (4.11%) Life Science
6 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.74%) Clustering
7 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.37%) LIMS
8 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.37%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (1.37%) PMI
8 1 (1.37%) Replication
8 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Windows
1 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.37%) Linux
2 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (1.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (46.58%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (32.88%) Agile
3 21 (28.77%) Validation
4 18 (24.66%) Migration
5 17 (23.29%) Data Modelling
6 15 (20.55%) Test Strategy
7 14 (19.18%) Data Migration
7 14 (19.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (19.18%) System Integration Testing
7 14 (19.18%) Test Automation
8 12 (16.44%) Business Analysis
8 12 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (16.44%) ETL
9 11 (15.07%) Decision-Making
9 11 (15.07%) Risk Management
9 11 (15.07%) SDLC
10 10 (13.70%) Data Mapping
10 10 (13.70%) Performance Testing
10 10 (13.70%) Scrum
11 9 (12.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.03%) SQL
2 10 (13.70%) PL/SQL
3 7 (9.59%) ABAP
4 5 (6.85%) Java
5 3 (4.11%) Bash
6 2 (2.74%) Python
6 2 (2.74%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.37%) JCL
7 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (21.92%) Degree
2 13 (17.81%) Security Cleared
3 12 (16.44%) SC Cleared
4 8 (10.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (9.59%) ISTQB
6 3 (4.11%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.37%) CBAP
8 1 (1.37%) CCNA
8 1 (1.37%) CCNP
8 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.37%) PMP
8 1 (1.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.70%) QA
2 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.11%) PMO
3 1 (1.37%) GxP
3 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.37%) Docker
1 1 (1.37%) Time Sharing Option
1 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) SCCM
2 2 (2.74%) Ansible
2 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.37%) CA Endevor
3 1 (1.37%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.37%) Perfmon
3 1 (1.37%) SCOM
3 1 (1.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (20.55%) SAP
2 14 (19.18%) ServiceNow
3 11 (15.07%) Oracle
4 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.48%) Ariba
6 2 (2.74%) Anaplan
6 2 (2.74%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.74%) Hyperion
6 2 (2.74%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco
7 1 (1.37%) Google
7 1 (1.37%) HP
7 1 (1.37%) IBM
7 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.37%) VMware