UAT Engineer Contract Job Trends

User Acceptance Testing Engineer
UK

The median User Acceptance Testing Engineer daily rate in the UK is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 - 595
Rank change year-on-year - - +158
Contract jobs requiring a UAT Engineer 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -59.56%
75th Percentile - - £288
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £98.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 35,817 28,937 41,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 92.92% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,569 17,745 27,379
10th Percentile £300 £292 £275
25th Percentile £405 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,156 846 2,282
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.57 £21.25 £16.54
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £61.31 £62.50 £61.52
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £72.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £32.13 £35.98
% change year-on-year -12.85% -10.69% +10.69%

UAT Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UAT Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

UAT Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

UAT Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UAT Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UAT Engineer job vacancies in the UK

UAT Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UAT Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for UAT Engineer job vacancies in the UK

UAT Engineer
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UAT Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 February 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
England - 1 £300 -
East of England - 1 £300 -
UK excluding London - 1 £300 -

UAT Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, UAT Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring UAT Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Rundeck
1 1 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Sourcetree
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

UAT Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
1 1 (100.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Sourcetree
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian