User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 82 91
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 18 29 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.34% 1.49% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.77% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 22
10th Percentile £356 £302 £358
25th Percentile £425 £391 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.03% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £505 £544
90th Percentile £643 £543 £575
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.41
England median hourly rate £55.00 £24.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +124.49% -60.80% +56.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +8 11 £506 +6.58% 16
Warwickshire +2 4 £400 -2.44% 4
Shropshire - 2 £495 -
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (5.56%) Appian
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (5.56%) Figma
1 1 (5.56%) GitHub
1 1 (5.56%) SaaS
1 1 (5.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
2 1 (5.56%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Network Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) QA Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Telecoms Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Asset Management Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) QA Leader
5 1 (5.56%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Financial Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.56%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) ADO
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) SCADA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (27.78%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (27.78%) Test Automation
3 5 (27.78%) Test Management
4 4 (22.22%) Integration Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (11.11%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Product Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Scalability Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) CCNP
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
1 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) AVEVA
2 1 (5.56%) Infor
2 1 (5.56%) Micro Focus
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft