UAT Lead Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

User Acceptance Testing Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median User Acceptance Testing Lead daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £436, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 343 472
Rank change year-on-year +42 +129 +148
Contract jobs requiring a UAT Lead 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.013% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.014% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £416 - £376
25th Percentile £421 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £413 £413
Median % change year-on-year +5.65% - -11.29%
75th Percentile £444 £419 £538
90th Percentile £446 - £560
UK median daily rate £436 £494 £413
% change year-on-year -11.73% +19.70% -12.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

UAT Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured UAT Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

UAT Lead trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

UAT Lead
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing UAT Lead.

UAT Lead daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

UAT Lead Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, UAT Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring UAT Lead in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Local Government
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting

UAT Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
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