User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the South West

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 88 131 146
Rank change year-on-year +43 +15 -20
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 23 26 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.37% 0.81% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.98% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 15
10th Percentile £360 £208 £338
25th Percentile £413 £211 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £298 £475
Median % change year-on-year +59.66% -37.37% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £538
90th Percentile £674 £725 £567
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £54.25 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £24.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +124.49% -60.80% +56.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the South West.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Wiltshire +29 9 £463 +110.23% 2
Bristol +20 6 £525 +13.51% 14
Gloucestershire - 5 £500 - 10
Devon +15 3 - -
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (13.04%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Appian
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (4.35%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (4.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.04%) Azure Pipelines
3 3 (13.04%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.35%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) GCC
2 1 (4.35%) MSI
2 1 (4.35%) Postman
2 1 (4.35%) Selenium
2 1 (4.35%) TestRail
2 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Military
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Local Government
5 1 (4.35%) Back Office
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Billing
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Test Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Test Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Oracle Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Financials Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) SAP Manager
5 2 (8.70%) SAP Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Oracle Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Workstream Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Workstream Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Packager
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) ERP Project Manager
6 1 (4.35%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) SAP Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Legacy Applications
2 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.70%) EPoS
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) PMI
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
1 1 (4.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Integration Testing
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) System Integration Testing
3 6 (26.09%) Migration
3 6 (26.09%) Unit Testing
4 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) Test Scripting
4 5 (21.74%) Test Strategy
5 4 (17.39%) Defect Management
5 4 (17.39%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Project Management
5 4 (17.39%) System Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.04%) ERP
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Programme Governance
6 3 (13.04%) Regression Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.70%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) ISEB
4 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (4.35%) OPNET
1 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Workday