User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Swindon

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +4
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 13 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 7.07% 6.06% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.55% 6.74% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £403 £325 -
25th Percentile £463 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +13.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £388
90th Percentile £533 £548 -
Wiltshire median daily rate £463 £425 £220
% change year-on-year +8.82% +93.18% -53.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 89 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 82.61% 89.90% 78.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 60 65
10th Percentile £305 £233 £200
25th Percentile £375 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% -11.43%
75th Percentile £603 £578 £550
90th Percentile £795 £621 £600
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £563 £545
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.21% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £25.15 £25.08 £14.54
% change year-on-year +0.30% +72.46% -78.93%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Swindon

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Swindon over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Swindon

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Cucumber
1 6 (46.15%) Postman
1 6 (46.15%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Salesforce Engineer
1 10 (76.92%) Test Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 4 (30.77%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.69%) EPoS Manager
4 1 (7.69%) EPoS Test Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Playwright
1 6 (46.15%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
2 10 (76.92%) Exploratory Testing
2 10 (76.92%) Mentoring
2 10 (76.92%) Software Testing
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
4 7 (53.85%) Scrum
5 6 (46.15%) API Testing
5 6 (46.15%) BDD
5 6 (46.15%) Coaching
5 6 (46.15%) Continuous Deployment
5 6 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (46.15%) Integration Testing
5 6 (46.15%) Non-Functional Testing
5 6 (46.15%) TDD
6 5 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (38.46%) Defect Tracking
6 5 (38.46%) DevOps
6 5 (38.46%) Test Planning
6 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) Apex Code
2 5 (38.46%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
1 4 (30.77%) ISTQB
1 4 (30.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Salesforce
2 6 (46.15%) Conga
2 6 (46.15%) GoCardless