User Acceptance Testing Job Trends in England

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 349 293
Rank change year-on-year +91 -56 -2
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 468 347 629
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.81% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.88% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 281 189 516
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £86,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,506 39,645 58,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.09% 92.95% 88.22%
Number of salaries quoted 29,755 20,008 46,455
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Acceptance Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in England

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing User Acceptance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in England over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in England

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 25 February 2026. 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
London +74 196 £62,500 -16.67% 90
South East +57 110 £42,500 -26.09% 88
Midlands +16 67 £43,522 -14.24% 37
West Midlands +21 45 £45,000 -12.62% 21
North of England -73 38 £52,500 -4.55% 57
South West -8 26 £47,500 - 10
East Midlands -17 22 £37,500 -11.76% 16
East of England +12 18 £57,500 +4.55% 17
North West -51 17 £51,500 -20.77% 38
Yorkshire -28 14 £57,500 +77.00% 16
North East -8 7 £43,000 -31.20% 4
User Acceptance Testing
UK

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (5.34%) Confluence
2 18 (3.85%) Apache
2 18 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.56%) Appian
4 11 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.35%) Tomcat
4 11 (2.35%) WebSphere
4 11 (2.35%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.43%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) WordPress
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.70%) MS Visio
3 18 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 63 (13.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.14%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.85%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 4 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.85%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.64%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.64%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.64%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.43%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.43%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.43%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.43%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 98 (20.94%) Power Platform
2 66 (14.10%) Azure
3 41 (8.76%) AWS
4 36 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 33 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (5.77%) SaaS
7 25 (5.34%) Amazon S3
7 25 (5.34%) Power Automate
8 18 (3.85%) OpenShift
9 16 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (2.56%) Azure AI
11 11 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (2.14%) PowerApps
13 8 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (1.71%) Serverless
14 7 (1.50%) OCI
15 5 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.07%) Lucidchart
15 5 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.35%) SSL
2 9 (1.92%) VPN
3 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.43%) GSM
4 2 (0.43%) LAN
4 2 (0.43%) LTE
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.83%) Power BI
2 30 (6.41%) SQL Server
3 22 (4.70%) Oracle Database
4 19 (4.06%) Tableau
5 18 (3.85%) Apache Hive
5 18 (3.85%) Impala
5 18 (3.85%) Parquet
5 18 (3.85%) Spark SQL
6 16 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.78%) DB2
8 12 (2.56%) Pinecone
9 9 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.50%) MySQL
11 7 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.07%) Metadata
14 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 60 (12.82%) JIRA
2 21 (4.49%) Git
3 20 (4.27%) Selenium
4 18 (3.85%) IBM UrbanCode
5 15 (3.21%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.56%) MLflow
7 6 (1.28%) Postman
8 3 (0.64%) JUnit
8 3 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.43%) GitLab
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.43%) Ranorex
9 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.43%) TestDirector
9 2 (0.43%) TestNG
9 2 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.21%) Appium
10 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 228 (48.72%) Finance
2 206 (44.02%) Social Skills
3 108 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (14.32%) Manufacturing
5 56 (11.97%) Banking
6 51 (10.90%) Marketing
7 29 (6.20%) Investment Banking
8 24 (5.13%) Legal
9 20 (4.27%) Law
10 17 (3.63%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.21%) Retail
12 12 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.71%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.50%) Advertising
15 7 (1.50%) Billing
16 6 (1.28%) Back Office
16 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (1.07%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 237 (50.64%) Analyst
2 95 (20.30%) Business Analyst
3 84 (17.95%) Senior
4 68 (14.53%) Senior Analyst
5 49 (10.47%) Lead
6 41 (8.76%) SAP Analyst
7 39 (8.33%) Developer
8 30 (6.41%) Support Analyst
9 29 (6.20%) Automation Developer
10 28 (5.98%) Consultant
10 28 (5.98%) Technical Analyst
11 23 (4.91%) Applications Support
11 23 (4.91%) Test Leader
12 21 (4.49%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 20 (4.27%) Power Platform Developer
13 20 (4.27%) Transformation Analyst
14 18 (3.85%) Senior Business Analyst
15 16 (3.42%) Automation Analyst
15 16 (3.42%) Systems Analyst
16 15 (3.21%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (4.49%) Pandas
2 18 (3.85%) PySpark
3 17 (3.63%) REST
4 15 (3.21%) OpenAPI
4 15 (3.21%) Swagger
5 14 (2.99%) Web Services
6 13 (2.78%) Playwright
6 13 (2.78%) RESTful
7 12 (2.56%) Django
7 12 (2.56%) FastAPI
7 12 (2.56%) Flask
7 12 (2.56%) Hugging Face
7 12 (2.56%) JWT
7 12 (2.56%) NumPy
7 12 (2.56%) OAuth
7 12 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (2.56%) pytest
7 12 (2.56%) PyTorch
7 12 (2.56%) scikit-learn
7 12 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.62%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (4.91%) Management Information System
5 19 (4.06%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (3.42%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.21%) NHS
8 7 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.07%) CMDB
10 5 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.85%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.91%) Windows
2 22 (4.70%) Linux
3 13 (2.78%) Unix
4 12 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (41.88%) Agile
2 120 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (21.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 95 (20.30%) Roadmaps
5 88 (18.80%) AI
6 86 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 86 (18.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 86 (18.38%) Validation
7 73 (15.60%) Change Management
7 73 (15.60%) Test Automation
8 67 (14.32%) Translating Business Requirements
9 63 (13.46%) Migration
10 59 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
11 57 (12.18%) Intelligent Automation
12 56 (11.97%) CI/CD
13 54 (11.54%) Business Analysis
13 54 (11.54%) Logistics
13 54 (11.54%) User Stories
13 54 (11.54%) Workshop Facilitation
14 53 (11.32%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 148 (31.62%) SQL
2 54 (11.54%) Python
3 17 (3.63%) C#
4 16 (3.42%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.50%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.28%) Java
7 5 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.85%) C++
9 3 (0.64%) ABAP
9 3 (0.64%) VBA
10 2 (0.43%) Bash
10 2 (0.43%) Go
10 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.43%) Rust
11 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.21%) Korn
11 1 (0.21%) PHP
11 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (14.74%) Degree
2 20 (4.27%) ISTQB
3 18 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.21%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.21%) PMP
5 14 (2.99%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (2.14%) SC Cleared
8 8 (1.71%) IIBA
9 7 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.50%) ISEB
10 6 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (1.07%) CBAP
11 5 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.64%) CAPM
13 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.43%) ACCA
14 2 (0.43%) CIMA
14 2 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (16.03%) QA
2 41 (8.76%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.70%) SLA
4 19 (4.06%) Accessibility
4 19 (4.06%) GDPR
5 9 (1.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 9 (1.92%) HIPAA
6 6 (1.28%) HL7
7 5 (1.07%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.85%) IFRS
9 3 (0.64%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.64%) PMO
10 2 (0.43%) GAAP
10 2 (0.43%) PSD2
10 2 (0.43%) WCAG
11 1 (0.21%) GRC
11 1 (0.21%) MiFID
11 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (3.42%) Docker
2 5 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (0.85%) Terraform
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Control-M
6 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Puppet
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 102 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 83 (17.74%) SAP
3 56 (11.97%) Oracle
4 46 (9.83%) Blue Prism
5 30 (6.41%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.63%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.78%) IBM
8 12 (2.56%) Automation Anywhere
8 12 (2.56%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.56%) UiPath
9 11 (2.35%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.28%) Workday
11 5 (1.07%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.07%) Ariba
12 4 (0.85%) Anaplan
13 3 (0.64%) Apple
13 3 (0.64%) Concur
13 3 (0.64%) Databricks
13 3 (0.64%) HP
13 3 (0.64%) IFS