User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 88 63
Rank change year-on-year +21 -25 +25
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 65 64 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.46% 2.23% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.46% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 35 90
10th Percentile £459 £346 £360
25th Percentile £500 £419 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £502 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% +11.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £688 £665 £529
90th Percentile £757 £721 £596
South East median daily rate £575 £485 £450
% change year-on-year +18.56% +7.78% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the Thames Valley

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the Thames Valley

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the Thames Valley

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the Thames Valley

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire +9 52 £575 +18.56% 5
Buckinghamshire +22 9 £431 -21.73% 3
Oxfordshire 0 4 £488 -1.27% 3
User Acceptance Testing
South East

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (20.00%) SAP EWM
1 13 (20.00%) SAP QM
2 3 (4.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.54%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.54%) SAP CO
3 1 (1.54%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.54%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.23%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (6.15%) Azure
3 3 (4.62%) AWS
3 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.08%) PaaS
4 2 (3.08%) SaaS
5 1 (1.54%) OCI
5 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) JIRA
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 29 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (7.69%) Finance
3 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.62%) Banking
4 3 (4.62%) Corporate Banking
4 3 (4.62%) Marketing
4 3 (4.62%) Retail
5 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Consultant
2 17 (26.15%) Build Engineer
2 17 (26.15%) SAP Consultant
2 17 (26.15%) Windows Build Engineer
2 17 (26.15%) Windows Engineer
3 15 (23.08%) Analyst
4 13 (20.00%) SAP QM Consultant
5 10 (15.38%) Business Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) SAP EWM Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) Insight Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) Product Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Sales Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.62%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.54%) EPoS
4 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (30.77%) Windows
1 20 (30.77%) Windows Server
2 17 (26.15%) Windows 10
2 17 (26.15%) Windows NT
2 17 (26.15%) Windows Server 2012
2 17 (26.15%) Windows Server 2016
2 17 (26.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) GAP Analysis
2 21 (32.31%) Integration Testing
3 20 (30.77%) Workshop Facilitation
4 17 (26.15%) Customer Service
4 17 (26.15%) Deployment Automation
4 17 (26.15%) ITIL
4 17 (26.15%) Release Management
4 17 (26.15%) Service Management
5 9 (13.85%) Business Analysis
5 9 (13.85%) Requirements Gathering
5 9 (13.85%) Scrum
5 9 (13.85%) User Stories
6 8 (12.31%) Agile
7 7 (10.77%) Change Management
8 6 (9.23%) System Integration Testing
9 5 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (7.69%) DevOps
9 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (7.69%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.31%) SQL
2 3 (4.62%) C#
2 3 (4.62%) F#
3 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.54%) Python
Qualifications
1 39 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 16 (24.62%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.54%) PMP
5 1 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (36.92%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (26.15%) Active Directory
1 17 (26.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (26.15%) SCCM
1 17 (26.15%) Sysprep
1 17 (26.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (43.08%) Microsoft
2 22 (33.85%) SAP
3 1 (1.54%) Adobe
3 1 (1.54%) Apple
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle