User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Hertfordshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 61 69
Rank change year-on-year +25 +8 -25
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 12 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 2.49% 2.13% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.41% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 8
10th Percentile - £306 £308
25th Percentile £306 £339 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £388 £453
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -14.36% -17.73%
75th Percentile £438 £481 £500
90th Percentile £588 £545 £502
East of England median daily rate £425 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +6.25% -15.79% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.28
Median hourly rate - - £62.55
75th Percentile - - £63.83
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £47.53

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 398 664 745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 82.57% 88.42% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 363 430
10th Percentile £250 £273 £260
25th Percentile £313 £400 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £675
90th Percentile £635 £775 £750
East of England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 155 158
10th Percentile £15.10 £18.85 £15.70
25th Percentile £32.50 £43.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £90.00 £70.75
East of England median hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% -4.76% +55.56%

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 October 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 October 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 +13 8 £313 -16.67% 1
Hatfield - 2 £588 -
Hemel Hempstead +12 1 £475 +35.71%
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (25.00%) Retail
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) HR Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) HR Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) OAT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) OAT Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) Test Scripting
2 6 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 6 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 5 (41.67%) Defect Management
3 5 (41.67%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (16.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Traceability Matrix
4 2 (16.67%) User Stories
5 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (8.33%) Data Management
5 1 (8.33%) Project Management
5 1 (8.33%) Scrum
5 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (8.33%) Test Management
5 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) ISEB
1 3 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
1 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Workday