User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the South East

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 110 101
Rank change year-on-year +16 -9 +19
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 102 104 182
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.87% 1.84% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.07% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 63 137
10th Percentile £374 £315 £330
25th Percentile £481 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £688 £600 £525
90th Percentile £746 £721 £596
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +78.57% +37.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.93 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +56.25% +58.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,603 5,023 6,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.23% 89.08% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,482 4,732
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £598
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 218 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South East

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South East

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the South East

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South East

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley +20 69 £575 +19.79% 16
Berkshire +3 55 £575 +22.67% 6
Hampshire -12 16 £358 -30.49% 9
Surrey +23 12 £450 +5.88% 8
Buckinghamshire +24 10 £400 -20.16% 5
Oxfordshire +3 4 £488 -1.27% 5
West Sussex +2 2 - -
Kent +8 1 - -
East Sussex +2 1 £650 +36.84% 1
Home Counties - 1 - -
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (13.73%) SAP EWM
2 13 (12.75%) SAP QM
3 3 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.98%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.98%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.98%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.98%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.98%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.98%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.88%) Azure
1 6 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (4.90%) AWS
3 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.96%) PaaS
4 2 (1.96%) SaaS
5 1 (0.98%) OCI
5 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (0.98%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.98%) Power BI
2 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.90%) JIRA
2 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.98%) Selenium
3 1 (0.98%) TestRail
General
1 53 (51.96%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.57%) Finance
3 9 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.88%) Marketing
4 6 (5.88%) Retail
5 5 (4.90%) Banking
5 5 (4.90%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (4.90%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.98%) Back Office
6 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.98%) French Language
6 1 (0.98%) Legal
6 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (31.37%) Analyst
2 20 (19.61%) Consultant
3 19 (18.63%) Build Engineer
3 19 (18.63%) Windows Build Engineer
3 19 (18.63%) Windows Engineer
4 17 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
5 16 (15.69%) Business Analyst
6 13 (12.75%) SAP QM Consultant
7 8 (7.84%) ERP Analyst
7 8 (7.84%) Test Analyst
8 6 (5.88%) Lead
9 5 (4.90%) Business Manager
9 5 (4.90%) SAP EWM Consultant
9 5 (4.90%) Test Manager
9 5 (4.90%) Workstream Lead
10 4 (3.92%) Business Intelligence Lead
10 4 (3.92%) ERP Business Analyst
11 3 (2.94%) Applications Support Analyst
11 3 (2.94%) Site Engineer
11 3 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.94%) ADO
1 3 (2.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.98%) .NET
2 1 (0.98%) REST
2 1 (0.98%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.94%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.98%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.98%) EPoS
5 1 (0.98%) FMCG
5 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (22.55%) Windows
2 22 (21.57%) Windows Server
3 19 (18.63%) Windows 10
3 19 (18.63%) Windows NT
3 19 (18.63%) Windows Server 2012
3 19 (18.63%) Windows Server 2016
3 19 (18.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.49%) GAP Analysis
2 24 (23.53%) Integration Testing
3 22 (21.57%) Workshop Facilitation
4 19 (18.63%) Customer Service
4 19 (18.63%) Deployment Automation
4 19 (18.63%) ITIL
4 19 (18.63%) Release Management
4 19 (18.63%) Service Management
5 17 (16.67%) ERP
6 12 (11.76%) Agile
6 12 (11.76%) Scenario Testing
7 11 (10.78%) Requirements Gathering
7 11 (10.78%) System Integration Testing
7 11 (10.78%) User Stories
8 10 (9.80%) Change Management
9 9 (8.82%) Business Analysis
9 9 (8.82%) End-to-End Testing
9 9 (8.82%) Test Scripting
10 8 (7.84%) Migration
10 8 (7.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (8.82%) SQL
2 3 (2.94%) C#
2 3 (2.94%) F#
2 3 (2.94%) Python
3 2 (1.96%) C
3 2 (1.96%) Java
3 2 (1.96%) VB
3 2 (1.96%) VBScript
4 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 27 (26.47%) DV Cleared
3 17 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.86%) Degree
5 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.98%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.98%) PMP
5 1 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (27.45%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) SLA
3 2 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.98%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (18.63%) Active Directory
1 19 (18.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (18.63%) SCCM
1 19 (18.63%) Sysprep
1 19 (18.63%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (38.24%) SAP
2 32 (31.37%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.88%) Oracle
4 2 (1.96%) Micro Focus
5 1 (0.98%) Adobe
5 1 (0.98%) Apple
5 1 (0.98%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.98%) Workday