UAT Manager Contract Job Trends in Reading

User Acceptance Testing Manager
Berkshire > Reading

The median User Acceptance Testing Manager daily rate in Reading is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 88 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs requiring a UAT Manager 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.14% 0.097% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -
75th Percentile £588 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £525 -
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Reading with a recognized job title 685 922 952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 89.60% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 540 636
10th Percentile £325 £324 £213
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £523
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +10.05% -0.48%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £615
90th Percentile £653 £700 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 6 15
10th Percentile £14.75 £49.38 £59.21
25th Percentile £23.81 £57.58 £60.93
Median hourly rate £80.00 £66.26 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year +20.73% +4.70% +15.07%
75th Percentile £95.00 £73.57 £65.63
90th Percentile £99.50 £81.18 £67.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £43.96 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -25.50% -3.98% +96.63%

UAT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UAT Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

UAT Manager job vacancy trend in Reading

UAT Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UAT Manager job vacancies in Reading.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UAT Manager job vacancies in Reading

UAT Manager Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, UAT Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Reading region featuring UAT Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

UAT Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Re-Platforming
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow