User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Edinburgh

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for User Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 73 89
Rank change year-on-year +25 +16 -2
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 26 29 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.99% 2.45% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.61% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 17
10th Percentile £343 £398 £334
25th Percentile £463 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% +2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £688 £513 £573
90th Percentile £768 £639 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £464 £450
% change year-on-year +2.48% +3.00% +23.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

User Acceptance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 1,111 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.94% 93.99% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 775 1,224
10th Percentile £215 £225 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £570
90th Percentile £655 £605 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) OCI
2 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 3 (11.54%) SaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) SilkCentral
General
1 15 (57.69%) Public Sector
2 12 (46.15%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) UAT Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Test Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Test Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Test Leader
5 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) UAT Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Citrix Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Digital Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Digital Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) HR Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Operations Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) SAML
2 4 (15.38%) OpenID
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.69%) Equities
2 2 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Test Strategy
2 10 (38.46%) Defect Management
3 8 (30.77%) Integration Testing
4 7 (26.92%) Scenario Testing
5 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 5 (19.23%) Order to Cash
6 5 (19.23%) Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (19.23%) Record to Report
6 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Identification
6 5 (19.23%) Test Management
6 5 (19.23%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
7 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 4 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (15.38%) RBAC
7 4 (15.38%) Regression Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Test Planning
8 3 (11.54%) ERP
8 3 (11.54%) Test Scripting
8 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) SQL
1 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) ISEB
2 4 (15.38%) ISTQB
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (7.69%) PMO
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (7.69%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (15.38%) Okta
2 4 (15.38%) Zscaler
3 2 (7.69%) Blue Prism
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) Citrix