User Acceptance Testing Jobs

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for User Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 262 353
Rank change year-on-year -120 +91 -50
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 716 1,296 1,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 1.39% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.45% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 555 732 1,278
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £45,041
% change year-on-year -4.55% +22.11% +0.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89,730 89,109 165,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.44% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 62,034 53,947 83,947
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing.

Salary trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -100 653 £55,000 -0.36% 212
UK excluding London -108 494 £52,500 -4.55% 139
Work from Home -90 298 £55,000 - 81
London -82 197 £60,500 -3.20% 74
Midlands -19 136 £52,500 - 25
North of England -93 127 £53,750 -2.27% 38
South East -81 85 £56,000 +7.69% 32
North West -71 78 £52,000 -9.57% 25
West Midlands +5 75 £57,500 +4.55% 13
East Midlands -27 61 £45,000 +5.88% 12
East of England -10 56 £45,000 +12.50% 15
South West -58 48 £58,700 +4.36% 19
Yorkshire +18 46 £60,000 +20.09% 11
Scotland -64 32 £54,750 +5.29% 10
Wales -3 11 £55,000 +57.14% 1
North East -30 5 £40,500 -19.00% 2
Northern Ireland +11 2 £47,500 +3.26% 3

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (3.91%) IIS
2 21 (2.93%) Confluence
3 15 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.84%) CMS
4 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.56%) SAS
6 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 58 (8.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.47%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.96%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.56%) SPSS
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 39 (5.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.68%) NetSuite
3 9 (1.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.84%) SAP PLM
4 6 (0.84%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.56%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.28%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
9 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 136 (18.99%) Azure
2 79 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (9.50%) Dynamics 365
4 62 (8.66%) Power Platform
5 39 (5.45%) AWS
6 21 (2.93%) SaaS
7 20 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
8 19 (2.65%) PowerApps
9 12 (1.68%) PaaS
10 10 (1.40%) GitHub
11 9 (1.26%) Power Automate
12 7 (0.98%) OCI
13 5 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (0.70%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.56%) Dropbox
14 4 (0.56%) IaaS
15 3 (0.42%) AWS CodePipeline
15 3 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 3 (0.42%) WhatsApp
16 2 (0.28%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.84%) LAN
2 5 (0.70%) 5G
2 5 (0.70%) Broadband
2 5 (0.70%) Wireless
3 4 (0.56%) DNS
3 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (0.42%) SSH
5 2 (0.28%) DHCP
5 2 (0.28%) Firewall
5 2 (0.28%) FTP
5 2 (0.28%) HTTP
5 2 (0.28%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.28%) Intranet
5 2 (0.28%) IP Telephony
5 2 (0.28%) PABX
5 2 (0.28%) VLAN
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) WAN
6 1 (0.14%) GSM
6 1 (0.14%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (8.94%) SQL Server
2 54 (7.54%) Power BI
3 17 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 13 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
5 13 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (1.40%) Data Lake
6 10 (1.40%) Power Query
7 8 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.12%) Tableau
8 6 (0.84%) MySQL
8 6 (0.84%) SAP HANA
9 5 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (0.70%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 5 (0.70%) Data Mining
9 5 (0.70%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 80 (11.17%) JIRA
2 34 (4.75%) Selenium
3 29 (4.05%) Jasmine
4 28 (3.91%) Karma Test Runner
5 20 (2.79%) Cucumber
6 15 (2.09%) Git
7 14 (1.96%) Postman
8 12 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 11 (1.54%) Visual Studio
10 9 (1.26%) Cypress.io
11 8 (1.12%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.12%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.98%) JUnit
12 7 (0.98%) TestRail
13 6 (0.84%) Jenkins
13 6 (0.84%) MSTest
14 5 (0.70%) GitLab
14 5 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 5 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.56%) NUnit
General
1 228 (31.84%) Finance
1 228 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 146 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
3 82 (11.45%) Law
4 65 (9.08%) Retail
5 49 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.59%) Marketing
7 25 (3.49%) Back Office
8 24 (3.35%) Legal
8 24 (3.35%) Public Sector
9 23 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (2.93%) Billing
11 18 (2.51%) Banking
12 17 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (2.09%) Front Office
14 14 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.96%) Investment Banking
15 13 (1.82%) Local Government
15 13 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 197 (27.51%) Analyst
2 99 (13.83%) Senior
3 82 (11.45%) Business Analyst
4 78 (10.89%) Developer
5 59 (8.24%) Consultant
6 51 (7.12%) Lead
7 47 (6.56%) Applications Support
8 42 (5.87%) Project Manager
9 41 (5.73%) Test Manager
10 38 (5.31%) Test Analyst
11 35 (4.89%) Support Analyst
12 28 (3.91%) C# Developer
13 23 (3.21%) Functional Consultant
14 22 (3.07%) Applications Support Analyst
14 22 (3.07%) Tester
15 20 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
15 20 (2.79%) Support Engineer
16 19 (2.65%) Senior Manager
17 18 (2.51%) Applications Engineer
17 18 (2.51%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (9.08%) .NET
2 48 (6.70%) SOAP
3 46 (6.42%) XML
4 44 (6.15%) Web Services
5 39 (5.45%) JSON
6 33 (4.61%) ASP.NET
7 32 (4.47%) REST
8 31 (4.33%) AngularJS
9 29 (4.05%) Sass
10 28 (3.91%) RxJS
10 28 (3.91%) XML Schema
11 22 (3.07%) RESTful
12 17 (2.37%) HTML
13 14 (1.96%) Gherkin
13 14 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (1.82%) CSS
15 9 (1.26%) Hibernate
16 7 (0.98%) Middleware
17 6 (0.84%) React
18 5 (0.70%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.42%) Product Ownership
2 30 (4.19%) Management Information System
3 26 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
4 20 (2.79%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.40%) IoT
8 10 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.26%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.26%) FMCG
10 8 (1.12%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.98%) Derivative
12 6 (0.84%) Equities
13 5 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.70%) BBC
13 5 (0.70%) Cloud Native
13 5 (0.70%) Housing Association
14 4 (0.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.73%) Windows
2 26 (3.63%) Linux
3 17 (2.37%) Unix
4 12 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.26%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.56%) Windows NT
7 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) CentOS
9 2 (0.28%) Debian
9 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.28%) VMS
10 1 (0.14%) AIX
10 1 (0.14%) Android
10 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
10 1 (0.14%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (30.73%) Agile
2 208 (29.05%) Problem-Solving
3 137 (19.13%) DevOps
4 123 (17.18%) Project Management
5 108 (15.08%) Software Testing
6 95 (13.27%) Test Automation
7 92 (12.85%) Project Delivery
7 92 (12.85%) Requirements Gathering
8 82 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 81 (11.31%) Customer Service
10 75 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
10 75 (10.47%) Regression Testing
10 75 (10.47%) Test Strategy
11 73 (10.20%) ERP
11 73 (10.20%) SDLC
12 71 (9.92%) Business Intelligence
13 70 (9.78%) Functional Testing
14 67 (9.36%) CRM
14 67 (9.36%) Migration
15 64 (8.94%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 155 (21.65%) SQL
2 77 (10.75%) C#
3 62 (8.66%) JavaScript
4 40 (5.59%) Java
5 38 (5.31%) T-SQL
6 33 (4.61%) Python
7 32 (4.47%) TypeScript
8 31 (4.33%) VB
9 28 (3.91%) VB.NET
9 28 (3.91%) VB6
10 15 (2.09%) VBA
11 14 (1.96%) C++
11 14 (1.96%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.40%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.12%) Rust
14 5 (0.70%) R
15 4 (0.56%) Bash
15 4 (0.56%) Perl
15 4 (0.56%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 162 (22.63%) Degree
2 47 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 37 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.19%) ISTQB
5 23 (3.21%) ISEB
6 14 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.12%) IIBA
7 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.98%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.84%) CSPO
9 6 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.70%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.70%) MCITP
11 3 (0.42%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.42%) CBAP
11 3 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (22.35%) QA
2 27 (3.77%) SLA
3 20 (2.79%) GDPR
4 16 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.84%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.42%) PMO
9 2 (0.28%) EMIR
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 14001
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
10 1 (0.14%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 18 (2.51%) Firmware
2 11 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.40%) Docker
3 10 (1.40%) Embedded Firmware
4 4 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (0.98%) Control-M
1 7 (0.98%) Grafana
1 7 (0.98%) Kibana
1 7 (0.98%) SCCM
2 4 (0.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.56%) Sysprep
2 4 (0.56%) WSUS
3 2 (0.28%) Ansible
3 2 (0.28%) logstash
3 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.28%) Terraform
4 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 169 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.98%) Oracle
3 32 (4.47%) Salesforce
4 30 (4.19%) SAP
5 21 (2.93%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.26%) Google
7 8 (1.12%) Splunk
8 7 (0.98%) Charles River
8 7 (0.98%) Genesys
8 7 (0.98%) Intapp
9 5 (0.70%) Virgin Media
9 5 (0.70%) Workday
9 5 (0.70%) YouTube
10 4 (0.56%) Cadence
10 4 (0.56%) Quadient
11 3 (0.42%) Micro Focus
11 3 (0.42%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.42%) Sophos
11 3 (0.42%) Symantec
11 3 (0.42%) VMware