User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the South West

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 133 131
Rank change year-on-year +17 -2 -14
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 39 27 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.19% 0.78% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 0.87% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 27
10th Percentile £208 £395 £288
25th Percentile £327 £413 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +31.25% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £488
90th Percentile £716 £683 £500
England median daily rate £525 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

User Acceptance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,712 3,092 3,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.51% 89.03% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,704 2,225 2,373
10th Percentile £260 £319 £302
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 380 295 219
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £18.69 £24.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70.25 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.36 £71.37
England median hourly rate £38.12 £37.42 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.87% +45.72% +14.13%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in the South West

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Wiltshire +13 13 £220 -53.68%
Gloucestershire +5 11 £603 +15.87% 2
Bristol 0 6 £475 -9.52% 4
Devon - 3 £400 - 1
Somerset -9 1 - - 3
Dorset - 1 - - 2
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (17.95%) CMS
2 5 (12.82%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (20.51%) SAP ERP
1 8 (20.51%) SAP Payroll
2 5 (12.82%) Magento
3 3 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) SuccessFactors
2 5 (12.82%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (12.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 4 (10.26%) OCI
4 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Selenium
2 1 (2.56%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Law
5 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Local Government
7 1 (2.56%) Electronics
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.56%) Marketing
7 1 (2.56%) Military
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Consultant
2 6 (15.38%) Analyst
2 6 (15.38%) SAP Subject Matter Expert
2 6 (15.38%) Subject Matter Expert
3 5 (12.82%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Web Specialist
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Specialist
4 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Lead Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle Specialist
5 3 (7.69%) HR Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Product Owner
6 2 (5.13%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) SAP HR Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Web Content Specialist
7 1 (2.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Node.js
1 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Rocky
1 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Validation
2 12 (30.77%) Scenario Testing
3 11 (28.21%) Project Management
4 10 (25.64%) End-to-End Testing
4 10 (25.64%) ERP
5 9 (23.08%) Data Cleansing
6 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.95%) GAP Analysis
7 7 (17.95%) User Experience
8 6 (15.38%) Data Migration
8 6 (15.38%) Document Management
8 6 (15.38%) Matrix Management
8 6 (15.38%) Migration
8 6 (15.38%) Requirements Workshops
8 6 (15.38%) System Integration Testing
9 5 (12.82%) Agile
9 5 (12.82%) Creative Thinking
9 5 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (10.26%) Change Management
10 4 (10.26%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.56%) ABAP
2 1 (2.56%) Bash
2 1 (2.56%) SQL
2 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) CIPD
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) OPNET
Vendors
1 13 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.77%) SAP
3 6 (15.38%) OpenText
4 5 (12.82%) Sitecore
5 4 (10.26%) Oracle
6 3 (7.69%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.56%) Ariba
7 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.56%) Salesforce