User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Wales

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 10 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 3.32% - 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% - 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £424 - £333
25th Percentile £450 - £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - £406
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.47%
75th Percentile £466 - £455
90th Percentile £573 - £474
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 270 299 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 89.70% 71.02% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 188 359
10th Percentile £190 £143 £180
25th Percentile £287 £306 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £586
90th Percentile £616 £629 £639
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 28
10th Percentile £13.08 £11.75 £14.68
25th Percentile £14.61 £15.48 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +11.19% +7.55% -6.49%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.44 £24.06
90th Percentile £41.25 £85.10 £49.13
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 Wales

Job postings citing User Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Wales

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Wales.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Wales

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Wales over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Wales

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Wales

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 24 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
South Wales - 6 £431 - 25
Dyfed - 3 £460 -
User Acceptance Testing
UK

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (20.00%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (10.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (10.00%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Business Test Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Developer
4 2 (20.00%) SAP Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) REST
2 7 (70.00%) SOAP
2 7 (70.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) JSON
4 2 (20.00%) EDI
4 2 (20.00%) IDoc
4 2 (20.00%) JDBC
4 2 (20.00%) JMS
4 2 (20.00%) Middleware
4 2 (20.00%) SAP PI
4 2 (20.00%) XSLT
5 1 (10.00%) ODBC
5 1 (10.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 5 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 5 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) API Testing
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
6 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) ABAP
1 2 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) VB
2 1 (10.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
1 5 (50.00%) ISEB
1 5 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) IIBA
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) InterSystems
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce