User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 4 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 2.50% 2.92% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 3.74% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% - -
75th Percentile £569 £481 -
90th Percentile £603 £493 -
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -9.13% +7.89% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate - - £59.00
75th Percentile - - £59.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £31.61 £60.00 £54.56
% change year-on-year -47.33% +9.97% +6.98%

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 141 107 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 88.13% 78.10% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 73 132
10th Percentile £176 £210 £180
25th Percentile £250 £363 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £600
90th Percentile £600 £638 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -2.01% -1.88% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 13
10th Percentile £18.87 £14.91 £25.05
25th Percentile £19.37 £19.79 £25.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £25.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -21.12% +72.70%
75th Percentile £25.68 £37.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £87.64 £55.50 -
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £52.30
% change year-on-year -64.48% +11.47% +39.47%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Acceptance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Retail
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (75.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) System Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) BPMN
2 3 (75.00%) Business Case
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (75.00%) Presales
2 3 (75.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Supply Chain Management
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL