User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Buckinghamshire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 41 48
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -30
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 8 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.81% 2.42% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.96% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 17
10th Percentile £358 £356 £545
25th Percentile £378 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £481 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -16.30% +27.78%
75th Percentile £450 £550 £650
90th Percentile £515 £633 £680
South East median daily rate £425 £630 £550
% change year-on-year -32.54% +14.55% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £32.71 £60.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -45.48% +23.71% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 266 372 820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 93.33% 81.94% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 256 649
10th Percentile £213 £238 £295
25th Percentile £353 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -6.85% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £551 £588
90th Percentile £641 £645 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 25 7
10th Percentile - £15.85 £13.17
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.00 £13.37
Median hourly rate £15.25 £25.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% +52.44% +32.20%
75th Percentile £24.50 £30.00 £17.58
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £20.75
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for User Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 9 July 2025. 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
Milton Keynes +5 6 £395 -14.59% 14
Amersham - 1 £550 -
Gerrards Cross - 1 £475 -
User Acceptance Testing
South East

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Test Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) Parceljs
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) XML
1 1 (12.50%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 5 (62.50%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Regression Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (25.00%) Logistics
5 2 (25.00%) Order Management
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Test Assurance
5 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (25.00%) Traceability Matrix
5 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Use Case
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) COBOL
1 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Compaq
2 1 (12.50%) Conga
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Terracotta
2 1 (12.50%) webMethods
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