User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the South West

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for User Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 146 126
Rank change year-on-year +17 -20 -15
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 26 21 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.81% 0.58% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.65% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 32
10th Percentile £208 £338 £333
25th Percentile £211 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year -37.37% +8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £500
90th Percentile £725 £567 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

User Acceptance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,651 3,250 3,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.90% 89.63% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,695 2,396 2,328
10th Percentile £217 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.84%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £590
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 335 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.44 £17.00 £20.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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 +10 12 £220 -53.68% 1
Bristol +17 5 £463 +8.82% 4
Devon -1 2 - - 1
Somerset +2 1 - - 4
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 8 (30.77%) CMS
2 6 (23.08%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Magento
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 5 (19.23%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (19.23%) OCI
3 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) ShareGate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Law
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Electronics
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Web Specialist
2 5 (19.23%) Cloud Specialist
2 5 (19.23%) Lead
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Specialist
3 4 (15.38%) Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Lead Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Product Owner
5 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Web Content Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (3.85%) Pensions Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) UAT Lead
6 1 (3.85%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Validation
2 8 (30.77%) User Experience
3 6 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
3 6 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (19.23%) Data Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Data Reconciliation
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Inventory Management
5 4 (15.38%) Requirements Workshops
5 4 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Supply Chain Management
5 4 (15.38%) System Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Agile
6 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
7 2 (7.69%) Regression Testing
7 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (7.69%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) Sitecore
3 5 (19.23%) Oracle
4 4 (15.38%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.85%) SAP