User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 5 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 3.55% - 6.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% - 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £228
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.67%
75th Percentile £438 - £354
90th Percentile - - £487
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.61 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - +56.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 113 47 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 80.14% 94.00% 83.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 39 59
10th Percentile £163 £160 £210
25th Percentile £313 £514 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £756 £588
90th Percentile £669 £900 £613
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 10
10th Percentile £17.57 £13.01 £10.50
25th Percentile £20.31 £15.36 £10.72
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.16 £20.74
Median % change year-on-year +45.73% -17.27% -
75th Percentile £49.00 £33.73 £63.13
90th Percentile £77.50 £62.69 £72.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -10.00%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 29 June 2026. 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
Bromsgrove - 3 £350 -
Kidderminster - 2 £425 -
User Acceptance Testing
West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) GAP Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Wealth Management
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) SDET
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Target Operating Model
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft