UAT Lead Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median User Acceptance Testing Lead daily rate in the UK excluding London is £444, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 371 423
Rank change year-on-year +7 +52 +90
Contract jobs requiring a UAT Lead 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.011% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.012% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £422 £401 £375
25th Percentile £427 £402 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £406 £455
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -10.71% +1.11%
75th Percentile £455 £414 £504
90th Percentile £456 £417 £532
UK median daily rate £448 £494 £550
% change year-on-year -9.20% -10.23% +22.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,808 16,950 21,220
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.01% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,471 10,335 14,370
10th Percentile £217 £217 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,208 1,778 1,162
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.48 £18.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +17.07% +77.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

UAT Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured UAT Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for UAT Lead in the UK excluding London

UAT Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UAT Lead in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for UAT Lead in the UK excluding London

UAT Lead
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UAT Lead in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for UAT Lead in the UK excluding London

UAT Lead
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UAT Lead within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
North West -5 1 £450 +9.09%
North of England -22 1 £450 +10.77%
South East - 1 - - 3
South West - 1 £438 -
UAT Lead
UK

UAT Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 August 2025, UAT Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring UAT Lead in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC

UAT Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle