User Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 80 72
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 37 10 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.99% 0.85% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 0.98% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 20
10th Percentile £356 £403 £298
25th Percentile £468 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £575
90th Percentile £625 £546 £589
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £21.31
England median hourly rate £30.50 £22.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +38.64% -70.67% +20.97%

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 1,663 1,016 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.60% 86.03% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 609 1,028
10th Percentile £250 £232 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 30 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.52 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%
75th Percentile £39.68 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £60.29 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

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 17 December 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 +2 24 £538 +43.33% 9
South Yorkshire -39 7 £444 -6.53% 5
North Yorkshire +5 2 £339 -32.25% 2
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.41%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) SaaS
3 5 (13.51%) GCP
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Logic Apps
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.70%) OCI
7 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (13.51%) MySQL
2 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) Power BI
4 1 (2.70%) Data Mart
4 1 (2.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) JIRA
2 6 (16.22%) TestRail
3 5 (13.51%) Cucumber
3 5 (13.51%) GitLab
3 5 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.51%) Postman
3 5 (13.51%) REST Assured
3 5 (13.51%) Selenium
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.70%) Git
5 1 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 11 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
4 7 (18.92%) Finance
5 3 (8.11%) Local Government
6 2 (5.41%) Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Back Office
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Lead
2 7 (18.92%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Business Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Test Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.41%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Digital Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Subject Matter Expert
6 2 (5.41%) Support Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Tester
7 1 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Data Migration Business Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Migration Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) NetSuite Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (13.51%) .NET
2 5 (13.51%) LDAP
2 5 (13.51%) OpenID
2 5 (13.51%) REST
2 5 (13.51%) SailPoint
3 2 (5.41%) Web Services
4 1 (2.70%) Kafka
4 1 (2.70%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) React
4 1 (2.70%) SOAP
4 1 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.11%) CMDB
2 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.70%) Derivative
3 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Migration
2 17 (45.95%) Agile
3 13 (35.14%) Data Migration
4 12 (32.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (27.03%) ETL
5 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (27.03%) Scenario Testing
5 10 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (27.03%) System Integration Testing
6 9 (24.32%) Test Scripting
7 8 (21.62%) CI/CD
7 8 (21.62%) Test Automation
7 8 (21.62%) Test Strategy
8 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (18.92%) DevOps
8 7 (18.92%) Waterfall
8 7 (18.92%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (16.22%) Manual Testing
9 6 (16.22%) User Stories
10 5 (13.51%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) Java
2 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
2 5 (13.51%) PHP
2 5 (13.51%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.70%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.62%) Oracle
2 8 (21.62%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.41%) SAP
4 1 (2.70%) DocuSign
4 1 (2.70%) Murex