UAT Manager Contract Job Trends in the North of England

User Acceptance Testing Manager
England > North of England

The median User Acceptance Testing Manager daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 - 182
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Contract jobs requiring a UAT Manager 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.035% - 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £425
75th Percentile £525 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £493 £463
% change year-on-year +1.52% +6.49% -17.78%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 5,340 2,978 4,529
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.47% 93.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 1,982 2,887
10th Percentile £263 £231 £256
25th Percentile £379 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £575
90th Percentile £649 £650 £672
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 154 397
10th Percentile £17.13 £13.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £22.89 £17.58 £12.70
Median hourly rate £45.46 £27.13 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% +30.60% -31.61%
75th Percentile £69.13 £48.11 £46.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.04 £58.50
England median hourly rate £40.54 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year +18.85% +4.95% -24.42%

UAT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'UAT Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

UAT Manager job vacancy trend in the North of England

UAT Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UAT Manager job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for UAT Manager job vacancies in the North of England

UAT Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing UAT Manager within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 March 2026. 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
North East - 1 £500 -
North West - 1 - -
UAT Manager
England

UAT Manager Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 27 March 2026, UAT Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring UAT Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall

UAT Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft