User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the North West

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for User Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 86 131
Rank change year-on-year -11 +45 -35
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 40 70 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.44% 2.32% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.58% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 49 41
10th Percentile £320 £350 £319
25th Percentile £400 £388 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +17.65% -9.86%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £500
90th Percentile £568 £680 £550
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

User Acceptance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,341 2,711 3,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.27% 89.68% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,906 2,622
10th Percentile £310 £313 £250
25th Percentile £401 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £656
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 141 159
10th Percentile £11.00 £16.00 £10.63
25th Percentile £14.13 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.54 £23.39
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +30.57% +29.12%
75th Percentile £46.18 £44.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the North West

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the North West

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 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the North West

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend 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 8 June 2024. 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 -1 24 £500 +24.47% 19
Cheshire -8 13 £406 -24.90% 2
Lancashire +2 2 £501 +1.13% 2
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (7.50%) SAS
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) LiveLink
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.50%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.50%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.50%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.50%) SAP SD
1 1 (2.50%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.50%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.50%) Commercetools
4 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.50%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) JIRA
2 3 (7.50%) InstallShield
2 3 (7.50%) MSI
2 3 (7.50%) Zephyr
3 2 (5.00%) AdminStudio
4 1 (2.50%) Postman
4 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Marketing
4 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Retail
5 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.00%) Front Office
5 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Billing
6 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Analyst
2 11 (27.50%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Applications Packager
5 3 (7.50%) Functional Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.00%) QA Manager
6 2 (5.00%) QA Test Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.00%) Tester
7 1 (2.50%) Automation Tester
7 1 (2.50%) Business Data Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) Salesforce Business Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.50%) UAT Manager
7 1 (2.50%) Web Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
1 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.50%) Android
2 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Requirements Gathering
2 10 (25.00%) Migration
3 7 (17.50%) Agile
4 6 (15.00%) Data Migration
4 6 (15.00%) Test Scripting
4 6 (15.00%) User Stories
5 5 (12.50%) Unit Testing
5 5 (12.50%) Validation
6 4 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (10.00%) CRM
6 4 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.00%) Project Management
6 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (10.00%) Test Management
6 4 (10.00%) Use Case
7 3 (7.50%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) VB
3 1 (2.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (2.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) HP
4 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.50%) Workday