User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Reading

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 70 62
Rank change year-on-year +32 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 38 21 24
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 5.41% 1.94% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 2.14% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 23
10th Percentile £423 £501 £422
25th Percentile £575 £588 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £692 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +20.39% +13.02%
75th Percentile £638 £716 -
90th Percentile £648 £720 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £600 £635 £575
% change year-on-year -5.51% +10.43% +27.78%

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 641 983 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.31% 90.85% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 551 628
10th Percentile £337 £330 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £609 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 11 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £29.00 £41.24
25th Percentile £16.66 £49.38 £59.89
Median hourly rate £58.00 £60.46 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -4.48% -2.63%
75th Percentile £82.25 £67.21 £65.25
90th Percentile £96.75 £74.87 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -36.81% -3.98% +21.68%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Reading

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Reading

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
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:

Business Applications
1 20 (52.63%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (26.32%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (26.32%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (26.32%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (26.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 10 (26.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 8 (21.05%) Oracle AGIS
3 8 (21.05%) Oracle Cash Management
3 8 (21.05%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (2.63%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (2.63%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) SaaS
2 4 (10.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 4 (10.53%) AWS
2 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (10.53%) AWS CloudTrail
2 4 (10.53%) AWS Control Tower
2 4 (10.53%) AWS KMS
2 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
2 4 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (7.89%) Azure
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) JIRA
1 1 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 16 (42.11%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) General Ledger
3 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Billing
Job Titles
1 19 (50.00%) Lead
2 13 (34.21%) Consultant
3 12 (31.58%) Functional Consultant
4 9 (23.68%) Oracle Consultant
4 9 (23.68%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 9 (23.68%) Service Transition Leader
5 8 (21.05%) Oracle Financials Consultant
5 8 (21.05%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
6 6 (15.79%) Test Leader
6 6 (15.79%) UAT Lead
6 6 (15.79%) UAT Test Lead
7 4 (10.53%) Architect
7 4 (10.53%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (7.89%) Senior
9 2 (5.26%) Analyst
9 2 (5.26%) Business Analyst
9 2 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
9 2 (5.26%) Operations Business Analyst
9 2 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
9 2 (5.26%) Senior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.63%) NestJS
1 1 (2.63%) Node.js
1 1 (2.63%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) ERP
2 14 (36.84%) ITIL
3 10 (26.32%) Accounts Payable
3 10 (26.32%) Accounts Receivable
3 10 (26.32%) ITSM
3 10 (26.32%) Knowledge Transfer
3 10 (26.32%) Logistics
3 10 (26.32%) Procure-to-Pay
3 10 (26.32%) System Integration Testing
4 9 (23.68%) Service Management
5 8 (21.05%) Cash Management
6 7 (18.42%) Migration
6 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (13.16%) Cloud Operations
8 5 (13.16%) Target Operating Model
8 5 (13.16%) Workshop Facilitation
9 4 (10.53%) Runbook
9 4 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
9 4 (10.53%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
1 4 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (10.53%) NCSC
2 3 (7.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (73.68%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) Citrix
2 4 (10.53%) CloudEndure
3 1 (2.63%) Progress
3 1 (2.63%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow