User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 123 152
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 -9
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 274 360 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.03% 1.69% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.05% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 265 238
10th Percentile £319 £306 £323
25th Percentile £391 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £553 £588 £579
90th Percentile £663 £700 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £29.15 £37.60 £25.96
25th Percentile £40.19 £41.50 £31.29
Median hourly rate £53.75 £48.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.98% -1.03% +49.23%
75th Percentile £62.56 £55.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £65.90 £59.60 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £50.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.91% -19.20% +21.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,235 17,586 20,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.46% 82.35% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,495 10,292 13,879
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 2,217 1,273
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.50 £11.84
25th Percentile £16.90 £15.50 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.45 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing User Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing
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 User Acceptance Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 June 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 of England +43 89 £469 +4.22% 283
North West +36 75 £469 +4.22% 176
South East -3 53 £438 -23.91% 353
Midlands -19 39 £450 +0.78% 223
South West +34 28 £438 -7.89% 125
East of England +12 24 £425 +13.33% 154
East Midlands +1 23 £425 - 90
Scotland -29 20 £425 +6.25% 64
West Midlands -7 16 £450 -5.26% 131
Northern Ireland +5 15 £525 - 30
Yorkshire -2 12 £513 +13.89% 90
Wales - 10 £453 - 33
North East -1 2 £335 -21.18% 18
User Acceptance Testing
UK

User Acceptance Testing
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 13 (4.74%) Confluence
2 5 (1.82%) NetWeaver
2 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.09%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.36%) Camunda
4 1 (0.36%) CICS
4 1 (0.36%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 17 (6.20%) MS Visio
2 15 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (4.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.09%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.36%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.36%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (8.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (5.84%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (1.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (1.82%) Oracle Payroll
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.73%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.73%) Maximo
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.73%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.73%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.73%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.73%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.73%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.36%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.36%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.04%) Azure
2 22 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (6.93%) Power Platform
4 11 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.28%) SaaS
6 7 (2.55%) OCI
6 7 (2.55%) SuccessFactors
7 6 (2.19%) AWS
7 6 (2.19%) GitHub
8 5 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.46%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.09%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (0.73%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.73%) GCP
11 2 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.73%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.73%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Service Cloud
12 1 (0.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) HTTP
2 4 (1.46%) Firewall
3 2 (0.73%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) Intranet
4 1 (0.36%) LAN
4 1 (0.36%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.36%) RTP
4 1 (0.36%) WAN
4 1 (0.36%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.57%) Power BI
2 12 (4.38%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (1.09%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.09%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.09%) Tableau
6 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.73%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.36%) Big Data
7 1 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.36%) DB2
7 1 (0.36%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.36%) Looker
7 1 (0.36%) MS Access
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.36%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.36%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 54 (19.71%) JIRA
2 9 (3.28%) Postman
3 7 (2.55%) JUnit
3 7 (2.55%) Selenium
3 7 (2.55%) Zephyr
4 6 (2.19%) Git
4 6 (2.19%) GitLab
4 6 (2.19%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.82%) JMeter
5 5 (1.82%) LoadRunner
6 4 (1.46%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.09%) AdminStudio
7 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.73%) Mockito
8 2 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.73%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.36%) MSTest
9 1 (0.36%) TestComplete
General
1 97 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 83 (30.29%) Finance
3 66 (24.09%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.57%) Banking
6 15 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (5.47%) Retail
7 12 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.28%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.55%) Marketing
11 5 (1.82%) Military
12 4 (1.46%) Automotive
12 4 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.46%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.09%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.09%) Legal
13 3 (1.09%) Local Government
14 2 (0.73%) Billing
Job Titles
1 96 (35.04%) Analyst
2 50 (18.25%) Business Analyst
3 30 (10.95%) Developer
4 29 (10.58%) Test Manager
5 28 (10.22%) Test Analyst
6 24 (8.76%) Consultant
7 21 (7.66%) Lead
8 16 (5.84%) Tester
9 14 (5.11%) Test Leader
10 13 (4.74%) Senior
11 11 (4.01%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.65%) Data Analyst
13 9 (3.28%) Migration Engineer
13 9 (3.28%) Technical Analyst
14 8 (2.92%) Functional Consultant
14 8 (2.92%) SAP Developer
14 8 (2.92%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
15 7 (2.55%) Data Engineer
15 7 (2.55%) Java Developer
15 7 (2.55%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.66%) REST
2 16 (5.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (5.84%) SOAP
3 12 (4.38%) XML
4 7 (2.55%) JMS
4 7 (2.55%) JSON
4 7 (2.55%) Spring
5 6 (2.19%) RESTful
6 5 (1.82%) EDI
6 5 (1.82%) IDoc
6 5 (1.82%) JDBC
6 5 (1.82%) Kafka
6 5 (1.82%) Middleware
6 5 (1.82%) SAP PI
6 5 (1.82%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.82%) XSLT
7 4 (1.46%) React
7 4 (1.46%) Web Services
8 3 (1.09%) .NET
8 3 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.20%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.74%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.28%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (2.92%) CMDB
4 8 (2.92%) Data Structures
4 8 (2.92%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.46%) SCADA
9 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.09%) EPoS
9 3 (1.09%) Life Science
9 3 (1.09%) LIMS
9 3 (1.09%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.92%) Windows
2 4 (1.46%) Unix
3 3 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.36%) Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.12%) Agile
2 76 (27.74%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (23.72%) Migration
4 51 (18.61%) Test Strategy
5 47 (17.15%) System Integration Testing
6 45 (16.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 45 (16.42%) Test Automation
7 44 (16.06%) Validation
8 42 (15.33%) Integration Testing
9 34 (12.41%) Data Migration
10 33 (12.04%) Test Scripting
11 32 (11.68%) DevOps
11 32 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 30 (10.95%) Business Analysis
12 30 (10.95%) Scrum
13 29 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (10.58%) Data Analysis
13 29 (10.58%) Data Modelling
13 29 (10.58%) Requirements Gathering
13 29 (10.58%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.52%) SQL
2 14 (5.11%) PL/SQL
3 13 (4.74%) Java
4 10 (3.65%) Python
5 8 (2.92%) ABAP
5 8 (2.92%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.19%) C#
7 3 (1.09%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.09%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.73%) Bash
8 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.36%) COBOL
9 1 (0.36%) JCL
9 1 (0.36%) R
9 1 (0.36%) VB
9 1 (0.36%) VB6
Qualifications
1 38 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.77%) Degree
3 30 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 24 (8.76%) ISTQB
5 14 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (4.01%) ISEB
7 7 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 7 (2.55%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.82%) PMP
10 4 (1.46%) CBAP
11 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.09%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.36%) AAT
13 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.36%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (18.25%) QA
2 14 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.19%) PMO
4 5 (1.82%) SEPA
5 2 (0.73%) GAAP
5 2 (0.73%) GxP
5 2 (0.73%) IFRS
5 2 (0.73%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) EMIR
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) GMP
6 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (0.36%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 9 (3.28%) SCCM
2 3 (1.09%) HP ALM
3 2 (0.73%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.36%) Graphite
4 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.36%) OPNET
Vendors
1 49 (17.88%) Oracle
2 42 (15.33%) SAP
3 30 (10.95%) Microsoft
4 27 (9.85%) ServiceNow
5 10 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.19%) IFS
7 3 (1.09%) Ariba
7 3 (1.09%) HP
7 3 (1.09%) IBM
8 2 (0.73%) Adobe
8 2 (0.73%) Anaplan
8 2 (0.73%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.73%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.73%) Google
8 2 (0.73%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.73%) Infoblox
8 2 (0.73%) Snow
8 2 (0.73%) Workday
9 1 (0.36%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.36%) DocuSign