User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Reading

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 51 46 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +9
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 9 46 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.51% 3.86% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 4.28% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 42 9
10th Percentile £350 - £445
25th Percentile £363 - £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £721
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -20.25% +51.79%
75th Percentile £644 £735 £721
90th Percentile £756 £765 £748
Berkshire median daily rate £406 £575 £469
% change year-on-year -29.35% +22.67% -1.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Reading

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Reading

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Reading

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Reading

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (11.11%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (11.11%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Service Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) PuTTY
1 1 (11.11%) WinSCP
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Toad
General
1 1 (11.11%) Billing
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) HR Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Implementation Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Support Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (22.22%) System Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (11.11%) API Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (11.11%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Snow
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk