UAT Analyst Contracts

User Acceptance Testing Analyst
UK

The median User Acceptance Testing Analyst daily rate in the UK is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 702 834
Rank change year-on-year +135 +132 -157
Contract jobs requiring a UAT Analyst 20 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.021% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.023% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 20
10th Percentile £378 £314 £312
25th Percentile £450 £336 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £379 £400
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -5.31% +7.38%
75th Percentile £570 £434 £485
90th Percentile - £487 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £325 £338
% change year-on-year +46.15% -3.70% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,554 57,501 85,863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.56% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,500 40,089 60,302
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,611 1,615 2,125
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +96.68% -0.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.65 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.27 £42.26 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +116.72% +2.63%

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 18 April 2024.

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 7 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 18 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +55 11 £475 +46.15%
Scotland +46 10 £475 +25.00%
England +125 9 £570 +44.30%
Work from Home +134 8 £475 +27.52%
London +109 7 £570 +38.18%
Midlands - 1 £350 -
West Midlands - 1 £350 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, 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 20 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 14 (70.00%) Finance
3 13 (65.00%) Scenario Testing
4 10 (50.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (45.00%) Oracle
6 6 (30.00%) Migration
6 6 (30.00%) Agile
6 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
6 6 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (30.00%) Reinsurance
7 5 (25.00%) OCI
7 5 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 5 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
7 5 (25.00%) JIRA
8 3 (15.00%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (15.00%) Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (15.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (15.00%) Order to Cash
8 3 (15.00%) Record to Report
9 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
9 2 (10.00%) RBAC
9 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (10.00%) Analytics
9 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
9 2 (10.00%) Data Security
9 2 (10.00%) Degree

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:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (70.00%) Finance
2 10 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 6 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 13 (65.00%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 6 (30.00%) Migration
4 5 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
4 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Order to Cash
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (15.00%) Record to Report
6 2 (10.00%) Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.00%) Data Security
6 2 (10.00%) RBAC
7 1 (5.00%) Software Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.00%) System Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Test Scripting
7 1 (5.00%) Wealth Management
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) PMO
2 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Ariba
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) SAP