User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 41 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 7 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.91% 1.47% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.59% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile £386 - -
25th Percentile £408 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% - -
75th Percentile £482 £528 -
90th Percentile £508 £552 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 737 315 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.71% 92.38% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 181 259
10th Percentile £316 £213 £382
25th Percentile £400 £381 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -4.63% +2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.07 £19.25
25th Percentile - £12.55 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £29.38
90th Percentile - £20.90 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Acceptance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in South Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Sheffield -43 7 £444 -12.94% 5
User Acceptance Testing
Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 5 (71.43%) SaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MySQL
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
2 5 (71.43%) Cucumber
2 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) Postman
2 5 (71.43%) REST Assured
2 5 (71.43%) Selenium
2 5 (71.43%) TestRail
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (28.57%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) ERP Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) NetSuite Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
1 5 (71.43%) LDAP
1 5 (71.43%) OpenID
1 5 (71.43%) REST
1 5 (71.43%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) ETL
2 5 (71.43%) API Testing
2 5 (71.43%) BDD
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Data Ingestion
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) GitOps
2 5 (71.43%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (71.43%) Manual Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (71.43%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Test Scripting
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
2 5 (71.43%) PHP
2 5 (71.43%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle