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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 77 88
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 +11
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 94 50 53
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.27% 2.35% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 2.64% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 30 41
10th Percentile £313 £280 £325
25th Percentile £361 £385 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% +2.25% +12.36%
75th Percentile £495 £660 £540
90th Percentile £595 £703 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £21.65 £27.08 -
25th Percentile £21.95 £36.19 -
Median hourly rate £24.12 £52.75 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -54.28% +123.42% -
75th Percentile £70.85 £69.69 -
90th Percentile £86.00 £79.03 -
England median hourly rate £28.36 £55.00 £79.75
% change year-on-year -48.45% -31.03% +27.60%

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 2,462 1,897 2,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.55% 89.31% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,559 1,158 1,605
10th Percentile £213 £279 £303
25th Percentile £359 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 111 255
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.25 £11.38
25th Percentile £24.26 £23.23 £14.18
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +37.65% -37.04%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £45.88
90th Percentile £75.96 £80.59 £54.20
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -3 44 £450 -31.03% 21
Cheshire 0 34 £441 -18.71% 12
Merseyside -8 12 £395 +5.33% 6
Cumbria +3 1 - - 1
Lancashire -19 1 £650 +24.40% 6
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 10 (10.64%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (9.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.32%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (3.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (3.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (3.19%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (2.13%) SAP HCM
5 1 (1.06%) BambooHR
5 1 (1.06%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.28%) AWS
2 12 (12.77%) Azure
3 10 (10.64%) SuccessFactors
4 7 (7.45%) Amazon S3
4 7 (7.45%) AWS Step Functions
4 7 (7.45%) Serverless
5 6 (6.38%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.19%) Boomi
6 3 (3.19%) SaaS
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.13%) OCI
8 1 (1.06%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub
8 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) Network Security
2 2 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) DynamoDB
2 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.19%) SAP HANA
4 2 (2.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.06%) Power BI
5 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (21.28%) JIRA
2 8 (8.51%) Git
3 5 (5.32%) Postman
4 3 (3.19%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.13%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.06%) JMeter
General
1 55 (58.51%) Finance
2 35 (37.23%) Social Skills
3 19 (20.21%) Banking
4 13 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (12.77%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (8.51%) Local Government
7 2 (2.13%) Automotive
7 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.06%) Front Office
8 1 (1.06%) Marketing
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) Analyst
2 16 (17.02%) Business Analyst
3 14 (14.89%) Developer
4 9 (9.57%) Test Manager
5 8 (8.51%) Lead
5 8 (8.51%) Test Analyst
6 7 (7.45%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.38%) Consultant
7 6 (6.38%) SAP Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) SAP Test Analyst
8 5 (5.32%) Payments Analyst
8 5 (5.32%) Payments Business Analyst
8 5 (5.32%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Test Leader
8 5 (5.32%) Tester
9 4 (4.26%) ERP Support
9 4 (4.26%) Functional Consultant
9 4 (4.26%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (4.26%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.19%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) REST
1 15 (15.96%) Spring
1 15 (15.96%) Spring Boot
2 8 (8.51%) JMS
3 7 (7.45%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.32%) CSS
4 5 (5.32%) CSS3
4 5 (5.32%) HTML
4 5 (5.32%) HTML5
4 5 (5.32%) JSON
4 5 (5.32%) Lambda Expressions
4 5 (5.32%) RESTful
4 5 (5.32%) Sass
4 5 (5.32%) SOAP
4 5 (5.32%) Spring MVC
4 5 (5.32%) Swagger
4 5 (5.32%) XML
5 4 (4.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (3.19%) Jest
6 3 (3.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.70%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.57%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.57%) Public Cloud
3 8 (8.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 5 (5.32%) Digital Wallet
4 5 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.32%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.26%) Cloud Security Posture
5 4 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.19%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.06%) AS400
7 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.06%) iSeries
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.06%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Linux
2 1 (1.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.04%) Agile
2 26 (27.66%) Validation
3 25 (26.60%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (24.47%) Regression Testing
5 21 (22.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (21.28%) Test Management
7 18 (19.15%) Integration Testing
8 17 (18.09%) Requirements Gathering
9 16 (17.02%) Test Automation
9 16 (17.02%) Test Scripting
10 15 (15.96%) DevOps
10 15 (15.96%) ETL
11 14 (14.89%) End-to-End Testing
12 13 (13.83%) Data Governance
12 13 (13.83%) Defect Management
12 13 (13.83%) Test Strategy
13 12 (12.77%) Change Management
13 12 (12.77%) Migration
14 11 (11.70%) Data Modelling
14 11 (11.70%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.40%) SQL
2 16 (17.02%) Java
3 8 (8.51%) Python
4 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.19%) Bash
5 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.13%) ABAP
6 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.89%) Degree
2 10 (10.64%) ISTQB
3 8 (8.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (7.45%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.13%) CISSP
7 2 (2.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.06%) CISM
8 1 (1.06%) CSPO
8 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.53%) QA
2 13 (13.83%) PSD2
3 8 (8.51%) GDPR
3 8 (8.51%) IFRS
3 8 (8.51%) IFRS 17
3 8 (8.51%) ISO 20022
3 8 (8.51%) SEPA
4 5 (5.32%) Accessibility
4 5 (5.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (5.32%) HIPAA
4 5 (5.32%) PCI DSS
5 4 (4.26%) Data Quality
5 4 (4.26%) NIST
6 3 (3.19%) ISO 8583
7 2 (2.13%) SLA
8 1 (1.06%) GRC
System Software
1 11 (11.70%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) ISA Server
3 1 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (13.83%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) Oracle
1 15 (15.96%) SAP
2 8 (8.51%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.45%) Salesforce
3 7 (7.45%) Splunk
4 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.26%) Cisco
5 4 (4.26%) Varonis
5 4 (4.26%) Zscaler
6 3 (3.19%) Adobe
6 3 (3.19%) CyberArk
6 3 (3.19%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.13%) ForeScout
7 2 (2.13%) HP
7 2 (2.13%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.06%) Siebel
8 1 (1.06%) Workday