User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Oxfordshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 2 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.89% 2.20% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.72% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £408 £424 £361
25th Percentile £419 £441 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +8.33% +2.86%
75th Percentile £456 £506 £556
90th Percentile £468 - £568
South East median daily rate £413 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -28.26% +21.05% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 92 184 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 86.79% 81.06% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 117 146
10th Percentile £250 £150 £263
25th Percentile £355 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £506 £561
90th Percentile £695 £600 £673
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 38 13
10th Percentile £13.08 £12.20 £22.10
25th Percentile £20.85 £13.12 £25.95
Median hourly rate £27.76 £19.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.36% -25.00% +38.96%
75th Percentile £46.30 £29.38 £32.30
90th Percentile £46.54 £58.00 £52.90
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Oxfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Oxfordshire.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Oxfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Oxfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Oxfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Oxford +1 2 £438 -10.26% 6
User Acceptance Testing
South East

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Development
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA