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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 81 80
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +23
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 12 30 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.86% 1.54% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 1.86% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 23
10th Percentile £415 £286 £359
25th Percentile £425 £388 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.31% -11.25% +6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £505 £513
90th Percentile £685 £560 £605
England median daily rate £500 £525 £526
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.10% +5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £22.41
England median hourly rate £58.75 £16.86 £62.50
% change year-on-year +248.46% -73.02% +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 1,241 1,617 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.77% 83.09% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 807 1,076 1,329
10th Percentile £200 £266 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £578 £625 £610
90th Percentile £665 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 117 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.10 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.13 £13.87
Median hourly rate £19.50 £22.50 £21.69
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +3.73% +28.92%
75th Percentile £30.05 £40.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.75 £48.13
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 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 30 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 -6 5 £575 +21.05% 22
Warwickshire -4 4 £425 +3.66% 3
Shropshire - 2 £495 - 29
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 (8.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) Figma
1 1 (8.33%) GitHub
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (8.33%) SaaS
1 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
1 1 (8.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (16.67%) SAP Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Asset Management Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Finance Manager
4 1 (8.33%) HR Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Financial Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Financial Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Implementation Manager
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Implementation Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Test Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ADO
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (8.33%) Learning Management System
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) SCADA
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (16.67%) SAP Implementation
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (16.67%) Test Management
4 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Infor
3 1 (8.33%) Micro Focus
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft