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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 95 83
Rank change year-on-year +27 -12 +36
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 87 28 57
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 3.47% 1.29% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 1.49% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 19 36
10th Percentile £310 - £428
25th Percentile £400 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £513
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -21.95% +20.59%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £552
90th Percentile £600 £550 £603
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.65 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £22.85 £22.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £34.00 £23.00 -
90th Percentile £65.20 - -
England median hourly rate £30.33 £22.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +37.84% -70.67% +20.48%

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 2,213 1,874 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.38% 86.48% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 1,055 1,596
10th Percentile £213 £265 £295
25th Percentile £358 £390 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £567 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 108 157
10th Percentile £16.41 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.63 £21.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £31.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -11.97% +33.81%
75th Percentile £51.76 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.78 £68.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 19 December 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
Manchester +7 39 £450 +12.50% 13
Cheshire +10 36 £447 -7.74% 2
Merseyside -5 4 £519 - 2
Lancashire - 4 £400 - 7
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 3 (3.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 3 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.15%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (2.30%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (2.30%) SAP HR
4 2 (2.30%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.15%) BambooHR
5 1 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle ASCP
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (1.15%) SAP FI
5 1 (1.15%) SAP HCM
5 1 (1.15%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.69%) AWS
2 13 (14.94%) Azure
3 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
3 5 (5.75%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (5.75%) Serverless
3 5 (5.75%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (3.45%) Boomi
4 3 (3.45%) GCP
4 3 (3.45%) SaaS
5 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.30%) GitHub
5 2 (2.30%) OCI
6 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.15%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.15%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) DynamoDB
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (2.30%) SAP HANA
2 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.15%) Power BI
3 1 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (25.29%) JIRA
2 12 (13.79%) Git
3 4 (4.60%) GitLab
3 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.45%) Jasmine
4 3 (3.45%) TestRail
5 2 (2.30%) Postman
6 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.15%) JUnit
General
1 41 (47.13%) Finance
2 32 (36.78%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.69%) Banking
4 14 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
6 9 (10.34%) Local Government
7 7 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.45%) Legal
9 1 (1.15%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.15%) Back Office
9 1 (1.15%) Front Office
9 1 (1.15%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.15%) Law
9 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.15%) Marketing
9 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Retail
9 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Analyst
2 15 (17.24%) Developer
3 12 (13.79%) Business Analyst
4 11 (12.64%) Consultant
5 7 (8.05%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.05%) Test Analyst
6 6 (6.90%) Oracle Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) Lead
7 5 (5.75%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) Tester
8 4 (4.60%) ERP Support
8 4 (4.60%) SAP Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) SAP Test Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Functional Consultant
9 3 (3.45%) Release Manager
9 3 (3.45%) Test Leader
9 3 (3.45%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.54%) Spring
1 17 (19.54%) Spring Boot
2 14 (16.09%) REST
3 11 (12.64%) JMS
4 6 (6.90%) RESTful
5 5 (5.75%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.75%) CSS
5 5 (5.75%) CSS3
5 5 (5.75%) HTML
5 5 (5.75%) HTML5
5 5 (5.75%) Lambda Expressions
5 5 (5.75%) Sass
5 5 (5.75%) Spring MVC
6 4 (4.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (4.60%) XML
7 3 (3.45%) Jest
7 3 (3.45%) NestJS
7 3 (3.45%) Node.js
7 3 (3.45%) Playwright
8 2 (2.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 10 (11.49%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.45%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.45%) Synthetic Data
6 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.30%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (2.30%) IVR
6 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.15%) AS400
7 1 (1.15%) iSeries
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.15%) Linux
1 1 (1.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.08%) Agile
2 30 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (22.99%) DevOps
3 20 (22.99%) Integration Testing
4 19 (21.84%) Test Scripting
5 18 (20.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 18 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 15 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 14 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (16.09%) SDLC
8 13 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.79%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 12 (13.79%) Regression Testing
9 12 (13.79%) System Integration Testing
10 11 (12.64%) Unit Testing
11 10 (11.49%) Containerisation
11 10 (11.49%) Test Management
12 9 (10.34%) Defect Management
13 8 (9.20%) Computer Science
13 8 (9.20%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.69%) SQL
2 17 (19.54%) Java
3 5 (5.75%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.45%) Python
5 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.30%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.15%) ABAP
6 1 (1.15%) Bash
6 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) Degree
2 8 (9.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.60%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.30%) CBAP
5 2 (2.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.15%) CSPO
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (27.59%) QA
2 13 (14.94%) PSD2
3 12 (13.79%) ISO 20022
3 12 (13.79%) SEPA
4 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.15%) GDPR
6 1 (1.15%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 9 (10.34%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) ISA Server
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.60%) Terraform
3 3 (3.45%) Ansible
3 3 (3.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 20 (22.99%) Oracle
2 13 (14.94%) SAP
3 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.90%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.45%) Adobe
5 3 (3.45%) CyberArk
5 3 (3.45%) HP
5 3 (3.45%) Splunk
6 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.15%) Databricks
7 1 (1.15%) IBM
7 1 (1.15%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.15%) Workday