User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in the North West

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 57 84
Rank change year-on-year -33 +27 -1
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 97 78 41
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.47% 3.51% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 3.97% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 68 32
10th Percentile £388 £361 £387
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £421
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +15.37% -15.75%
75th Percentile £586 £546 £538
90th Percentile £635 £625 -
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile £21.04 £35.18 -
25th Percentile £21.08 £42.94 -
Median hourly rate £24.72 £57.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.19% - -
75th Percentile £72.66 £72.44 -
90th Percentile £83.80 £80.13 -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +32.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,253 1,967 2,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.73% 88.56% 83.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 1,274 1,228
10th Percentile £295 £299 £311
25th Percentile £400 £375 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -9.05% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £678 £671 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 132 151
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.08 £35.36
Median % change year-on-year +73.54% -26.26% +1.03%
75th Percentile £72.92 £53.13 £54.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £72.50 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in the North West

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the North West

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the North West

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 August 2026. 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
Manchester -17 44 £461 +2.50% 33
Cheshire -19 21 £532 +8.13% 7
Merseyside -5 15 £625 +16.28% 3
Lancashire -9 8 £425 +6.25% 9
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 12 (12.37%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) Camunda
2 3 (3.09%) TIBCO ActiveMatrix
3 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.03%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (16.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (4.12%) SAP HCM
3 3 (3.09%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (3.09%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (3.09%) SAP SD
3 3 (3.09%) Unit4 Business World
4 2 (2.06%) SAP MDG
4 2 (2.06%) SAP QM
5 1 (1.03%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (1.03%) SAP HR
5 1 (1.03%) SAP MM
5 1 (1.03%) SAP PM
5 1 (1.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.65%) Azure
2 13 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (12.37%) Dynamics 365
3 12 (12.37%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.22%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (6.19%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (4.12%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.09%) AWS
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.09%) GitHub
7 3 (3.09%) SaaS
8 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.06%) OCI
8 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.06%) Serverless
8 2 (2.06%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.03%) Azure AI
9 1 (1.03%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.19%) SSL
2 3 (3.09%) Network Security
3 2 (2.06%) Firewall
3 2 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.31%) Power BI
3 6 (6.19%) MySQL
3 6 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.09%) SAP HANA
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.03%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.03%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.03%) PowerCenter
6 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (15.46%) JIRA
2 4 (4.12%) GitLab
3 3 (3.09%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (3.09%) Gradle
3 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.09%) JUnit
3 3 (3.09%) Maven
3 3 (3.09%) Mockito
3 3 (3.09%) REST Assured
3 3 (3.09%) SonarQube
3 3 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.06%) Git
5 1 (1.03%) Balsamiq
5 1 (1.03%) Postman
5 1 (1.03%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.03%) TestRail
General
1 33 (34.02%) Finance
2 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.31%) Retail
4 8 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.22%) Banking
5 7 (7.22%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.19%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.12%) Aerospace
8 3 (3.09%) Billing
8 3 (3.09%) Marketing
8 3 (3.09%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.06%) Digital Health
9 2 (2.06%) Police
10 1 (1.03%) Advertising
10 1 (1.03%) Aviation
10 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (25.77%) Analyst
2 17 (17.53%) Business Analyst
3 16 (16.49%) Lead
4 15 (15.46%) Consultant
5 9 (9.28%) SAP Consultant
5 9 (9.28%) Test Manager
6 7 (7.22%) DBA
7 6 (6.19%) Functional Consultant
7 6 (6.19%) SQL DBA
8 5 (5.15%) Developer
8 5 (5.15%) Senior
9 4 (4.12%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Finance Business Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Financial Analyst
9 4 (4.12%) Release Manager
9 4 (4.12%) SAP Manager
10 3 (3.09%) ICT Manager
10 3 (3.09%) IT Business Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) SAP Functional Consultant
10 3 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) Middleware
2 4 (4.12%) CSS
2 4 (4.12%) HTML
3 3 (3.09%) Hibernate
3 3 (3.09%) JPA
3 3 (3.09%) Kafka
3 3 (3.09%) React
3 3 (3.09%) Redux
3 3 (3.09%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.06%) BAPI
4 2 (2.06%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (2.06%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.06%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (2.06%) Swagger
4 2 (2.06%) Terraform
5 1 (1.03%) Node.js
5 1 (1.03%) OAuth
5 1 (1.03%) REST
5 1 (1.03%) SAP Basis
5 1 (1.03%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.22%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.19%) Clustering
3 6 (6.19%) Replication
4 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.06%) Learning Management System
6 2 (2.06%) Life Science
6 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.06%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.03%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Licensing
7 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.34%) Windows
2 6 (6.19%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.06%) Linux
4 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (28.87%) Migration
2 27 (27.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (21.65%) Agile
3 21 (21.65%) Data Migration
3 21 (21.65%) DevOps
3 21 (21.65%) System Integration Testing
4 17 (17.53%) ERP
5 15 (15.46%) Integration Testing
5 15 (15.46%) Requirements Gathering
5 15 (15.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (15.46%) Unit Testing
5 15 (15.46%) Validation
6 14 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (13.40%) ITIL
7 13 (13.40%) User Stories
8 11 (11.34%) Process Improvement
8 11 (11.34%) Regression Testing
8 11 (11.34%) Test Automation
8 11 (11.34%) Test Scripting
8 11 (11.34%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.56%) SQL
2 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
2 6 (6.19%) T-SQL
3 5 (5.15%) ABAP
3 5 (5.15%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.09%) C#
4 3 (3.09%) Java
4 3 (3.09%) Python
5 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.03%) Bash
6 1 (1.03%) Bicep
6 1 (1.03%) Korn
Qualifications
1 14 (14.43%) Degree
1 14 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.19%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (5.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.03%) ACCA
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.03%) CIMA
8 1 (1.03%) CIPD
8 1 (1.03%) CISSP
8 1 (1.03%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) QA
2 8 (8.25%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.09%) NIST
3 3 (3.09%) SLA
4 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.03%) CDISC
5 1 (1.03%) GDPR
5 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.03%) IFRS
5 1 (1.03%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.03%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) SCOM
2 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 26 (26.80%) SAP
2 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.37%) ServiceNow
4 7 (7.22%) Oracle
4 7 (7.22%) Splunk
5 6 (6.19%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.12%) Cisco
6 4 (4.12%) Zscaler
7 3 (3.09%) Adobe
7 3 (3.09%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.09%) IBM
7 3 (3.09%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.09%) TIBCO
7 3 (3.09%) Veracode
8 2 (2.06%) ForeScout
8 2 (2.06%) Google
8 2 (2.06%) Infoblox
8 2 (2.06%) OpenText
8 2 (2.06%) Workday
9 1 (1.03%) Databricks