User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 67 57
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 20 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.38% 0.80% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 0.92% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile £306 £418 £381
25th Percentile £334 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £512 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.69% +13.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £414 £575 £504
90th Percentile £462 £710 £511
East of England median daily rate £375 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -2.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 737 655 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.63% 87.10% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 350 417
10th Percentile £221 £260 £205
25th Percentile £313 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £597 £676 £625
90th Percentile £700 £753 £708
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 144 84
10th Percentile £38.12 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £40.13 £53.42 £37.17
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.32% +25.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -3.13%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Watford - 12 £375 - 1
Stevenage -8 1 - - 1
Hatfield -10 1 £450 +2.86%
Royston - 1 - -
St Albans - 1 £513 -
User Acceptance Testing
East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
1 1 (5.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Katalon Studio
General
1 5 (25.00%) Games
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Lead
2 9 (45.00%) Test Leader
3 8 (40.00%) Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Test Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) OAT Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) OAT Test Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) SAP Test Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Business Systems Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Qlik Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Senior
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Business Systems Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) FMCG
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
1 8 (40.00%) Test Management
2 7 (35.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 7 (35.00%) Test Planning
3 6 (30.00%) Integration Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Data Management
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Project Management
6 2 (10.00%) Regression Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (10.00%) Requirements Workshops
6 2 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
7 1 (5.00%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) SAP
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) Avaya
4 1 (5.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) Genesys
4 1 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) Peregrine
4 1 (5.00%) Remedy
4 1 (5.00%) Siemens