User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Scotland

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 121 115
Rank change year-on-year +58 -6 -12
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 61 41 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.91% 1.54% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 1.66% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 28
10th Percentile £313 £375 £360
25th Percentile £363 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £464 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +3.00% +23.29%
75th Percentile £516 £547 £513
90th Percentile £693 £639 £594
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% - -
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -23.20% +56.25% +56.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,841 2,465 3,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.88% 92.39% 93.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,739 2,231
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £363 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 49
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Scotland

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Scotland

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Scotland

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Scotland

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 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
Edinburgh +30 28 £500 +8.11% 5
Glasgow +24 24 £379 -18.46% 6
West Lothian +8 6 £230 -
Lanarkshire +5 3 £400 +6.67% 3
User Acceptance Testing
UK

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 5 (8.20%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.11%) OCI
2 7 (11.48%) Azure
3 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.92%) AWS
4 3 (4.92%) SaaS
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.28%) GCP
5 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Internet
1 1 (1.64%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.11%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.28%) Power BI
3 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (27.87%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) TestComplete
2 2 (3.28%) Tricentis qTest
2 2 (3.28%) Zephyr
3 1 (1.64%) Postman
3 1 (1.64%) SilkCentral
General
1 27 (44.26%) Public Sector
2 20 (32.79%) Finance
3 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.64%) Marketing
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (47.54%) Analyst
2 12 (19.67%) Business Analyst
3 10 (16.39%) Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Test Analyst
5 7 (11.48%) UAT Analyst
6 6 (9.84%) Test Manager
7 5 (8.20%) Architect
7 5 (8.20%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Backend Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Change Analyst
9 3 (4.92%) Lead
9 3 (4.92%) Project Officer
9 3 (4.92%) Project Support Officer
9 3 (4.92%) Senior
9 3 (4.92%) Support Officer
9 3 (4.92%) Test Leader
9 3 (4.92%) UAT Manager
10 2 (3.28%) IT Analyst
10 2 (3.28%) IT Business Analyst
10 2 (3.28%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) SAML
2 4 (6.56%) OpenID
3 3 (4.92%) Kafka
3 3 (4.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.92%) RESTful
4 2 (3.28%) NumPy
4 2 (3.28%) Pandas
4 2 (3.28%) PySpark
4 2 (3.28%) Spring
5 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.64%) JSON
5 1 (1.64%) OpenTracing
5 1 (1.64%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Wiki
2 4 (6.56%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.92%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Equities
4 2 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Unix
2 2 (3.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.31%) Agile
2 12 (19.67%) Integration Testing
2 12 (19.67%) Project Management
2 12 (19.67%) Test Strategy
3 11 (18.03%) Defect Management
3 11 (18.03%) SDLC
4 10 (16.39%) Test Automation
5 8 (13.11%) End-to-End Testing
6 7 (11.48%) Business Analysis
6 7 (11.48%) Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (11.48%) Scenario Testing
6 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Identification
6 7 (11.48%) Test Management
6 7 (11.48%) Workshop Facilitation
7 6 (9.84%) Change Management
7 6 (9.84%) Order to Cash
7 6 (9.84%) Regression Testing
7 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
7 6 (9.84%) Scrum
7 6 (9.84%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.48%) SQL
2 5 (8.20%) Java
2 5 (8.20%) PL/SQL
2 5 (8.20%) Shell Script
3 3 (4.92%) Kotlin
3 3 (4.92%) Scala
4 2 (3.28%) Python
5 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Degree
2 5 (8.20%) ISEB
2 5 (8.20%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.28%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (8.20%) PMO
3 3 (4.92%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) HP Quality Center
1 4 (6.56%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.64%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) Oracle
2 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.56%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (6.56%) Okta
3 4 (6.56%) Zscaler
4 3 (4.92%) Blue Prism
4 3 (4.92%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (3.28%) HP
6 1 (1.64%) Citrix
6 1 (1.64%) SAP
6 1 (1.64%) Workday