User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 84 108
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 -22
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 27 45 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.43% 1.99% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.26% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 50
10th Percentile £301 £358 £309
25th Percentile £378 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +6.13%
75th Percentile £509 - £536
90th Percentile £565 £575 £601
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.41 -
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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,582 1,992 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.70% 88.26% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,359 2,336
10th Percentile £272 £263 £273
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +4.52% +15.94%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £576
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 51 65
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.03 £13.51 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +24.64% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £47.50 £22.15
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Birmingham +6 18 £475 -5.00% 13
Warwickshire +4 5 £410 -33.74% 5
Solihull - 2 £275 - 1
Worcestershire +7 1 £550 +32.53%
Herefordshire - 1 £550 -
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 3 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Boomi
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Selenium
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.41%) Law
4 2 (7.41%) Legal
4 2 (7.41%) Marketing
4 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Test Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Environment Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Financials Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Project Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Project Support Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Support Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Test Environment Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Product Owner
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
1 2 (7.41%) Replication
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 5 (18.52%) Data Cleansing
2 5 (18.52%) Problem Management
2 5 (18.52%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (18.52%) User Stories
3 4 (14.81%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (14.81%) Agile
3 4 (14.81%) Analytics
3 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
3 4 (14.81%) Migration
3 4 (14.81%) Release Management
4 3 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (11.11%) Change Management
4 3 (11.11%) Data Management
4 3 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 3 (11.11%) ERP
4 3 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 3 (11.11%) Integration Testing
4 3 (11.11%) ITIL
4 3 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.70%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) QA
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) SysTrack
2 2 (7.41%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) SAP
2 3 (11.11%) Citrix
2 3 (11.11%) New Relic
2 3 (11.11%) OpenAI
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) Ariba
4 1 (3.70%) Guidewire
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow