User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Scotland

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 102 70 126
Rank change year-on-year -32 +56 -20
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 14 60 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.86% 2.71% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 3.06% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 36 28
10th Percentile £353 £313 £374
25th Percentile £411 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £556 £527 £550
90th Percentile £613 £713 £641
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £48.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.15% -
UK median hourly rate £58.75 £36.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -42.00% +56.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Scotland

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Scotland

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Scotland

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Scotland

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh -15 10 £438 -11.39% 16
Glasgow -12 4 £575 +45.20% 8
User Acceptance Testing
UK

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) MS Visio
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (21.43%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) DB2
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) JUnit
2 1 (7.14%) MSTest
2 1 (7.14%) NUnit
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) Ranorex
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) TestRail
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Re-Platforming Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Database Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) J2EE
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
2 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
2 1 (7.14%) XML
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Derivative
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) User Stories
2 7 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 7 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 6 (42.86%) Scrum
3 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
4 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Business Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 4 (28.57%) Data Transformation
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
6 3 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (21.43%) IT Asset Management
6 3 (21.43%) Product Backlog
6 3 (21.43%) Re-Platforming
6 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) DocuSign
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle