User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 61 72
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 5 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.12% 0.69% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.79% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £290 £368 -
25th Percentile £313 £377 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £416 £250
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +66.50% -37.50%
75th Percentile £455 £503 £394
90th Percentile £599 £584 £480
South West median daily rate £425 £469 £525
% change year-on-year -9.33% -10.71% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 504 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 90.18% 86.75% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 350 558
10th Percentile £307 £362 £356
25th Percentile £498 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% - -
75th Percentile £651 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £726 £723
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 9 15
10th Percentile £12.50 - £16.62
25th Percentile £18.87 - £40.85
Median hourly rate £23.25 £12.79 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.78% -74.42% -18.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £67.00
90th Percentile - £22.23 £74.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing User Acceptance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Wiltshire

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Corsham +13 1 £630 +17.76%
Swindon -1 1 - - 2
Salisbury - 1 £300 - 1
User Acceptance Testing
South West

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Military
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) System Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) OPNET
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) VMware