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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 91 89
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 +44
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 76 27 57
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.21% 1.16% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 1.39% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 19 36
10th Percentile £333 - £413
25th Percentile £400 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.81% +26.81%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £575
90th Percentile £600 £550 £588
England median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% +8.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.65 - -
Median hourly rate £22.85 - £23.61
75th Percentile £34.00 - -
90th Percentile £65.20 - -
England median hourly rate £32.36 £60.00 £71.75
% change year-on-year -46.08% -16.38% +57.69%

All Process and 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 2,102 1,944 2,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.69% 83.36% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,385 1,054 1,703
10th Percentile £231 £294 £274
25th Percentile £363 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £678 £654 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 105 173
10th Percentile £14.20 £20.53 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £28.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +13.59% +36.00%
75th Percentile £47.12 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.06 £71.26 £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 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
Cheshire +7 35 £452 -6.03% 4
Manchester +2 27 £450 +12.50% 6
Lancashire - 5 £400 - 3
Merseyside +3 4 £519 -
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 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.32%) CMS
2 1 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.32%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (11.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.63%) SAP HR
4 2 (2.63%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle ASCP
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (1.32%) SAP HCM
5 1 (1.32%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.47%) AWS
2 10 (13.16%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) SuccessFactors
4 4 (5.26%) GitHub
5 3 (3.95%) Boomi
5 3 (3.95%) GCP
5 3 (3.95%) SaaS
6 2 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.63%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.63%) OCI
7 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.32%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (2.63%) Qlik Sense
1 2 (2.63%) SAP HANA
2 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.32%) Power BI
2 1 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (28.95%) JIRA
2 12 (15.79%) Git
3 7 (9.21%) GitLab
3 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.26%) JUnit
5 3 (3.95%) TestRail
6 2 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (46.05%) Finance
2 25 (32.89%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.42%) Banking
4 13 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (13.16%) Local Government
6 9 (11.84%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (5.26%) Legal
8 3 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.63%) Law
9 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.32%) Back Office
10 1 (1.32%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (26.32%) Analyst
2 16 (21.05%) Developer
3 11 (14.47%) Consultant
3 11 (14.47%) Test Analyst
4 9 (11.84%) Java Developer
5 7 (9.21%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.89%) Oracle Consultant
6 6 (7.89%) SAP Analyst
6 6 (7.89%) SAP Test Analyst
7 5 (6.58%) Lead
8 4 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
8 4 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (5.26%) Test Manager
8 4 (5.26%) Tester
9 3 (3.95%) ERP Support
9 3 (3.95%) Release Manager
9 3 (3.95%) Salesforce Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Test Leader
9 3 (3.95%) UAT Tester
10 2 (2.63%) Environment And Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.79%) REST
1 12 (15.79%) Spring
1 12 (15.79%) Spring Boot
2 8 (10.53%) JMS
3 5 (6.58%) Kafka
4 4 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (5.26%) React
4 4 (5.26%) RESTful
5 3 (3.95%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (2.63%) SailPoint
6 2 (2.63%) XML
7 1 (1.32%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (9.21%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) IVR
6 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.63%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.32%) CMDB
7 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.32%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.53%) Agile
2 25 (32.89%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (28.95%) Test Scripting
4 18 (23.68%) Integration Testing
5 15 (19.74%) Requirements Gathering
5 15 (19.74%) Test Management
6 14 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (18.42%) SDLC
7 13 (17.11%) Regression Testing
8 12 (15.79%) DevOps
8 12 (15.79%) Migration
8 12 (15.79%) System Integration Testing
9 11 (14.47%) CI/CD
9 11 (14.47%) Defect Management
9 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.16%) End-to-End Testing
10 10 (13.16%) Release Management
10 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (10.53%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.74%) SQL
2 12 (15.79%) Java
3 5 (6.58%) Python
4 3 (3.95%) Apex Code
5 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.32%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 11 (14.47%) BPSS Clearance
2 10 (13.16%) Degree
3 8 (10.53%) ISTQB
4 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.63%) CBAP
7 2 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.32%) CSPO
8 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (26.32%) QA
2 9 (11.84%) ISO 20022
2 9 (11.84%) SEPA
3 8 (10.53%) PSD2
4 7 (9.21%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.32%) GDPR
6 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.58%) HP ALM
3 3 (3.95%) Ansible
3 3 (3.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (22.37%) Oracle
2 15 (19.74%) SAP
3 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.58%) HP
5 4 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.63%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.32%) Databricks
7 1 (1.32%) IBM
7 1 (1.32%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.32%) OpenAI