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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 95 81
Rank change year-on-year +24 -14 +22
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 86 30 62
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.25% 1.43% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 1.62% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 20 44
10th Percentile £325 £268 £333
25th Percentile £391 £352 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £406 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -18.75% +13.64%
75th Percentile £500 £511 £552
90th Percentile £577 £565 £632
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.65 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.25 £22.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £38.64 £23.00 -
90th Percentile £67.06 - -
England median hourly rate £26.48 £22.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +20.35% -70.67% +20.48%

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 2,311 1,847 2,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.34% 88.29% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 1,073 1,660
10th Percentile £213 £278 £306
25th Percentile £358 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £551 £565 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £683
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 99 200
10th Percentile £16.37 £16.05 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.58 £21.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.50 £33.16
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% -5.01% -11.57%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.63 £75.30 £55.02
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +16 39 £450 +12.50% 16
Cheshire +5 33 £445 -8.15% 6
Merseyside -4 10 £400 +6.67% 2
Lancashire -13 1 £650 +24.40% 13
Cumbria - 1 - -
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 6 (6.98%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (10.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.81%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (3.49%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.33%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.16%) BambooHR
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle ASCP
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (1.16%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (1.16%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.16%) SAP HCM
5 1 (1.16%) SAP HR
5 1 (1.16%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.26%) AWS
2 13 (15.12%) Azure
3 8 (9.30%) SuccessFactors
4 7 (8.14%) Amazon S3
4 7 (8.14%) AWS Step Functions
4 7 (8.14%) Serverless
5 3 (3.49%) Boomi
5 3 (3.49%) SaaS
6 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.33%) OCI
7 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.16%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.16%) GitHub
7 1 (1.16%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.16%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.14%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (2.33%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (2.33%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.16%) Power BI
3 1 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (25.58%) JIRA
2 14 (16.28%) Git
3 5 (5.81%) Postman
4 3 (3.49%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.16%) JMeter
5 1 (1.16%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (63.95%) Finance
2 33 (38.37%) Social Skills
3 23 (26.74%) Banking
4 11 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.63%) Public Sector
6 8 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (9.30%) Local Government
7 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.16%) Automotive
8 1 (1.16%) Back Office
8 1 (1.16%) Front Office
8 1 (1.16%) Marketing
8 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Retail
8 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Analyst
2 19 (22.09%) Developer
3 14 (16.28%) Business Analyst
4 11 (12.79%) Java Developer
5 9 (10.47%) Consultant
6 7 (8.14%) SAP Analyst
6 7 (8.14%) SAP Test Analyst
6 7 (8.14%) Test Analyst
6 7 (8.14%) Test Manager
7 5 (5.81%) Lead
7 5 (5.81%) Oracle Consultant
7 5 (5.81%) Payments Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Payments Business Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) ERP Support
8 4 (4.65%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (4.65%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Angular Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.49%) Functional Consultant
9 3 (3.49%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (24.42%) REST
1 21 (24.42%) Spring
1 21 (24.42%) Spring Boot
2 14 (16.28%) JMS
3 7 (8.14%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.81%) CSS
4 5 (5.81%) CSS3
4 5 (5.81%) HTML
4 5 (5.81%) HTML5
4 5 (5.81%) JSON
4 5 (5.81%) Lambda Expressions
4 5 (5.81%) RESTful
4 5 (5.81%) Sass
4 5 (5.81%) SOAP
4 5 (5.81%) Spring MVC
4 5 (5.81%) Swagger
4 5 (5.81%) XML
5 4 (4.65%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (3.49%) Jest
6 3 (3.49%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 13 (15.12%) Cloud Native
3 8 (9.30%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.81%) Digital Wallet
4 5 (5.81%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.49%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.33%) IVR
7 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.16%) AS400
8 1 (1.16%) iSeries
8 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
1 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.70%) Agile
2 28 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (27.91%) Integration Testing
4 22 (25.58%) Requirements Gathering
5 21 (24.42%) Regression Testing
5 21 (24.42%) Test Automation
6 20 (23.26%) DevOps
7 19 (22.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (20.93%) Validation
9 15 (17.44%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 15 (17.44%) CI/CD
9 15 (17.44%) Test Management
10 14 (16.28%) Test Scripting
11 13 (15.12%) SDLC
12 12 (13.95%) Containerisation
13 11 (12.79%) Defect Management
13 11 (12.79%) End-to-End Testing
13 11 (12.79%) Unit Testing
14 10 (11.63%) System Integration Testing
15 9 (10.47%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 22 (25.58%) Java
2 20 (23.26%) SQL
3 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.33%) Python
4 2 (2.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.16%) ABAP
5 1 (1.16%) Bash
5 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 10 (11.63%) Degree
3 8 (9.30%) ISTQB
4 7 (8.14%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.33%) CBAP
6 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.16%) CSPO
7 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (31.40%) QA
2 19 (22.09%) PSD2
3 15 (17.44%) ISO 20022
3 15 (17.44%) SEPA
4 6 (6.98%) IFRS
4 6 (6.98%) IFRS 17
4 6 (6.98%) PCI DSS
5 4 (4.65%) Accessibility
6 3 (3.49%) ISO 8583
7 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
7 2 (2.33%) GDPR
8 1 (1.16%) GRC
System Software
1 12 (13.95%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) ISA Server
3 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (15.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (25.58%) Oracle
2 13 (15.12%) SAP
3 6 (6.98%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.49%) Adobe
5 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.49%) Splunk
6 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.16%) Databricks
6 1 (1.16%) HP
6 1 (1.16%) IBM
6 1 (1.16%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.16%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.16%) Workday