User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 34 28
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 +30
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.63% 0.81% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.94% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £298
25th Percentile £306 £328 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £335 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% -25.56% +63.64%
75th Percentile £319 £343 £465
90th Percentile - - £471
North East median daily rate £500 £335 £450
% change year-on-year +49.25% -25.56% +20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 394 212 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 82.43% 85.83% 84.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 154 95
10th Percentile £270 £236 £182
25th Percentile £375 £346 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £477
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -13.27%
75th Percentile £528 £538 £589
90th Percentile £588 £625 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £460 £481
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.37% -12.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 5 36
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.50
25th Percentile £44.50 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £16.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +263.64% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £18.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - £36.55 £50.00
North East median hourly rate £65.00 £11.64 £17.50
% change year-on-year +458.42% -33.49% -57.06%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 7 April 2026. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -16 3 £313 -6.72% 1
User Acceptance Testing
North East

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (66.67%) SAP CO
1 2 (66.67%) SAP FI
1 2 (66.67%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Business Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Business Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Financial Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Financial Support
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Support
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Support Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Support Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Process Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AAT
1 2 (66.67%) ACCA
1 2 (66.67%) CIMA
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP