User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 81 84
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +12
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 7 19 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.69% 1.12% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.30% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 23
10th Percentile £448 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £415 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £519 - £556
90th Percentile £538 £538 £630
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Yorkshire +7 4 £495 +10.00% 5
South Yorkshire +6 3 £480 +19.94% 3
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Jasmine
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Katalon Studio
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Security
1 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) OWASP
4 1 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CBAP
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft