UAT Lead Contracts in the South East

User Acceptance Testing Lead
England > South East

The median User Acceptance Testing Lead daily rate in the South East is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a UAT Lead 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £540 - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £492 £494 £550
% change year-on-year -0.35% -10.23% +22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 3,183 4,537 5,378
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.63% 92.07% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,063 2,780 3,680
10th Percentile £208 £250 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £662 £697 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 378 238
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +17.05% +122.72%
75th Percentile £55.00 £72.33 £64.41
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £41.65
% change year-on-year -44.11% +8.04% +62.19%

UAT Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured UAT Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for UAT Lead in the South East

UAT Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UAT Lead in the South East.

Daily rate trend for UAT Lead in the South East

UAT Lead
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UAT Lead within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Berkshire - 3 £600 - 1
Thames Valley - 3 £600 - 1
Hampshire - 2 £600 -
West Sussex - 1 - -
UAT Lead
England

UAT Lead Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 August 2025, UAT Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring UAT Lead in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) ERP
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Confluence
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills

UAT Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ERP
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle