User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Somerset

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 2.14% - 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% - 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £328 - £675
25th Percentile £333 - £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - £705
Median % change year-on-year - - +76.27%
75th Percentile £395 - £723
90th Percentile £428 - £724
South West median daily rate £425 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +29.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £15.74 - £23.86

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 166 147 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 88.77% 74.24% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 87 119
10th Percentile £163 £200 £206
25th Percentile £251 £347 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% -7.06% +7.60%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £650
90th Percentile £715 £680 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 29
10th Percentile - £12.50 £34.48
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £21.83 £25.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -12.68% -51.82% +3.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.38 £65.00
90th Percentile - £63.75 £66.23
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +4.17%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Somerset

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Somerset over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Somerset

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Yeovil - 2 £450 -
User Acceptance Testing
South West

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) ShareGate
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Junior
1 2 (50.00%) Junior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Junior Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Migration Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Operational Stability
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Test Management
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) HP