UAT Analyst Contracts

User Acceptance Testing Analyst
UK

The median User Acceptance Testing Analyst daily rate in the UK is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 562 705
Rank change year-on-year +55 +143 +122
Contract jobs requiring a UAT Analyst 13 20 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.046% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.049% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 12
10th Percentile £301 £378 £314
25th Percentile £313 £450 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £488 £379
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +28.71% +1.00%
75th Percentile £388 £570 £434
90th Percentile £615 - £487
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £475 £325
% change year-on-year -52.63% +46.15% -3.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

UAT Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured UAT Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for UAT Analyst in the UK

UAT Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing UAT Analyst.

Daily rate trend for UAT Analyst in the UK

UAT Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing UAT Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for UAT Analyst in the UK

UAT Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing UAT Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for UAT Analyst in the UK

UAT Analyst
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UAT Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +60 12 £350 -38.60% 5
London +42 11 £375 -34.21% 3
Work from Home +43 10 £325 -31.58% 3
UK excluding London +53 1 £225 -52.63% 2
North of England - 1 £225 -
North West - 1 £225 -

UAT Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, UAT Analyst 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 featuring UAT Analyst in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
3 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (61.54%) System Integration Testing
4 8 (61.54%) Test Automation
4 8 (61.54%) Waterfall
4 8 (61.54%) DevOps
4 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
4 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
4 8 (61.54%) Logistics
4 8 (61.54%) Software Testing
4 8 (61.54%) QA
4 8 (61.54%) QARun
4 8 (61.54%) Windows
4 8 (61.54%) WinRunner
4 8 (61.54%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (46.15%) Finance
6 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
7 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
7 4 (30.77%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (30.77%) Citrix
7 4 (30.77%) Test Planning
7 4 (30.77%) Manual Testing
7 4 (30.77%) Middleware
7 4 (30.77%) MS Access
7 4 (30.77%) C#
7 4 (30.77%) SQL
7 4 (30.77%) VB
7 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
7 4 (30.77%) Web Services

UAT Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) Drupal
2 1 (7.69%) Sitecore CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MS Access
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) QARun
1 8 (61.54%) WinRunner
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Back Office
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Middleware
1 4 (30.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
3 9 (69.23%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (61.54%) Collaborative Culture
4 8 (61.54%) DevOps
4 8 (61.54%) Logistics
4 8 (61.54%) Software Testing
4 8 (61.54%) System Integration Testing
4 8 (61.54%) Test Automation
4 8 (61.54%) Waterfall
5 4 (30.77%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
5 4 (30.77%) Manual Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Microservices
5 4 (30.77%) Test Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (15.38%) User Stories
7 1 (7.69%) API Integration
7 1 (7.69%) Defect Tracking
7 1 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) C#
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
1 4 (30.77%) VB
2 1 (7.69%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) SEPA
3 1 (7.69%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) HP ALM
1 1 (7.69%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Citrix
2 1 (7.69%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Optimizely
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Sitecore