User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 66 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 -14 +39
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 18 5 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.31% 0.60% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 0.70% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 18
10th Percentile £430 - £281
25th Percentile £504 - £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £681 - £584
90th Percentile £738 - £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +20.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £21.31
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £21.31

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 683 715 1,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.68% 85.73% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 457 828
10th Percentile £275 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 20
10th Percentile £18.87 £12.32 £12.00
25th Percentile - £14.67 £14.78
Median hourly rate £22.14 £23.75 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +28.38% -7.50%
75th Percentile £74.06 £33.75 £21.92
90th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £27.10
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.58 £18.25 £20.25
% change year-on-year +23.70% -9.88% +6.58%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in West Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in West Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing User Acceptance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Leeds +2 12 £625 +38.89% 9
Bradford - 5 £523 - 2
Halifax - 1 £550 - 3
User Acceptance Testing
Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.56%) OCI
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Selenium
2 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 3 (16.67%) Local Government
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Analyst
1 3 (16.67%) Lead
1 3 (16.67%) Scrum Master
2 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Consultant
2 2 (11.11%) Support Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) Principal Consultant
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Systems Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) Node.js
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.11%) CMDB
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Migration
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 9 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (27.78%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (27.78%) User Stories
5 4 (22.22%) CRM
5 4 (22.22%) ETL
5 4 (22.22%) Scrum
5 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 4 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
6 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (16.67%) Data Management
6 3 (16.67%) ERP
6 3 (16.67%) Kanban
6 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
6 3 (16.67%) Project Management
6 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) WCAG
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) DocuSign
4 1 (5.56%) SAP