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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 361 338
Rank change year-on-year +108 -23 -30
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 578 295 673
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 0.75% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.81% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 372 197 523
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,313 £46,250 £43,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £81,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 60,165 36,570 71,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.33% 93.39% 85.20%
Number of salaries quoted 38,947 20,678 53,805
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,338 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +112 275 £67,500 -8.47% 151
North of England +9 115 £60,000 +4.24% 54
Midlands -3 66 £50,000 +3.09% 45
West Midlands -9 53 £50,000 +3.09% 29
Yorkshire -22 50 £85,000 +95.64% 20
North West +11 49 £59,000 -12.59% 29
South East -3 48 £55,000 -8.33% 71
East of England +2 30 £55,000 +3.77% 12
South West -41 29 £55,000 +4.76% 21
North East -28 16 £43,000 -14.00% 5
East Midlands -33 13 £55,000 -6.38% 16
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 28 (4.84%) Confluence
2 25 (4.33%) Apache
2 25 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.33%) Apache Spark
3 16 (2.77%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.08%) Appian
5 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.69%) CMS
7 2 (0.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.35%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 44 (7.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.02%) MS Visio
3 21 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 72 (12.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.90%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (1.56%) SAP SD
5 8 (1.38%) Elite 3E
6 7 (1.21%) SAP MDG
7 6 (1.04%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.87%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.69%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.69%) Sage 50
9 4 (0.69%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.69%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.69%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.69%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.69%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.69%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.69%) SAP Travel Management
9 4 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 108 (18.69%) Azure
2 78 (13.49%) Power Platform
3 60 (10.38%) AWS
4 51 (8.82%) Dynamics 365
5 49 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (6.40%) Power Automate
7 30 (5.19%) SaaS
8 29 (5.02%) Amazon S3
9 25 (4.33%) OpenShift
10 21 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (3.63%) PowerApps
11 18 (3.11%) GCP
12 16 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
13 12 (2.08%) Azure AI
14 9 (1.56%) Boomi
15 8 (1.38%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.38%) SuccessFactors
16 7 (1.21%) Asana
16 7 (1.21%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.38%) VPN
2 5 (0.87%) HTTP
3 2 (0.35%) GSM
3 2 (0.35%) LAN
3 2 (0.35%) LTE
3 2 (0.35%) WAN
3 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.42%) Power BI
2 30 (5.19%) Oracle Database
3 29 (5.02%) SQL Server
4 28 (4.84%) Tableau
5 25 (4.33%) Apache Hive
5 25 (4.33%) Impala
5 25 (4.33%) Parquet
5 25 (4.33%) Spark SQL
6 12 (2.08%) Pinecone
7 10 (1.73%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.73%) SAP HANA
8 9 (1.56%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.21%) MySQL
10 6 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.04%) Power Query
10 6 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.87%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.87%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 84 (14.53%) JIRA
2 30 (5.19%) Git
2 30 (5.19%) Selenium
3 25 (4.33%) IBM UrbanCode
4 22 (3.81%) Cypress.io
5 13 (2.25%) Postman
6 12 (2.08%) MLflow
7 5 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.69%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.69%) SpecFlow
8 4 (0.69%) TestRail
9 3 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.52%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.52%) JUnit
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.52%) Ranorex
9 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.52%) TestNG
10 2 (0.35%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.35%) TestDirector
General
1 243 (42.04%) Finance
2 235 (40.66%) Social Skills
3 170 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.07%) Banking
5 56 (9.69%) Law
6 49 (8.48%) Legal
7 47 (8.13%) Manufacturing
8 41 (7.09%) Retail
9 35 (6.06%) Investment Banking
10 31 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (4.67%) Marketing
11 27 (4.67%) Public Sector
12 17 (2.94%) Billing
12 17 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.56%) Games
16 8 (1.38%) Advertising
16 8 (1.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 213 (36.85%) Analyst
2 122 (21.11%) Business Analyst
3 90 (15.57%) Consultant
4 62 (10.73%) Lead
5 61 (10.55%) Senior
6 35 (6.06%) SAP Consultant
6 35 (6.06%) Technical Analyst
7 32 (5.54%) Senior Analyst
8 28 (4.84%) Project Manager
9 27 (4.67%) Transformation Analyst
10 23 (3.98%) Support Analyst
10 23 (3.98%) Test Leader
11 22 (3.81%) Banking Analyst
11 22 (3.81%) Systems Analyst
12 18 (3.11%) QA Leader
13 17 (2.94%) Developer
13 17 (2.94%) Senior Business Analyst
13 17 (2.94%) Transformation Manager
14 16 (2.77%) Automation Engineer
14 16 (2.77%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (5.19%) REST
2 25 (4.33%) Pandas
2 25 (4.33%) PySpark
3 23 (3.98%) Playwright
4 22 (3.81%) Middleware
5 17 (2.94%) RESTful
5 17 (2.94%) Web Services
6 16 (2.77%) Swagger
7 15 (2.60%) OpenAPI
8 14 (2.42%) Flask
8 14 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (2.25%) SAP Fiori
10 12 (2.08%) Django
10 12 (2.08%) FastAPI
10 12 (2.08%) JWT
10 12 (2.08%) OAuth
10 12 (2.08%) pytest
10 12 (2.08%) PyTorch
10 12 (2.08%) scikit-learn
10 12 (2.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.27%) Onboarding
2 40 (6.92%) Legacy Systems
3 36 (6.23%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 18 (3.11%) Low-Code
6 15 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.60%) NHS
6 15 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 12 (2.08%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.90%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.04%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.87%) PMI
13 5 (0.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.60%) Linux
1 15 (2.60%) Windows
2 6 (1.04%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.69%) Unix
4 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (35.12%) Agile
2 166 (28.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 158 (27.34%) Continuous Improvement
4 152 (26.30%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (21.28%) Requirements Gathering
6 110 (19.03%) Validation
7 107 (18.51%) Migration
8 96 (16.61%) ERP
9 93 (16.09%) Test Automation
10 88 (15.22%) System Integration Testing
11 84 (14.53%) Business Intelligence
12 83 (14.36%) User Stories
13 82 (14.19%) Translating Business Requirements
14 80 (13.84%) Workshop Facilitation
15 78 (13.49%) CI/CD
16 74 (12.80%) DevOps
17 73 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 72 (12.46%) AI
18 72 (12.46%) Business Analysis
19 70 (12.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (21.11%) SQL
2 65 (11.25%) Python
3 31 (5.36%) C#
4 20 (3.46%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.11%) Java
6 16 (2.77%) ABAP
7 12 (2.08%) C++
8 6 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (1.04%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.87%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.69%) Rust
10 4 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.52%) Perl
11 3 (0.52%) VBA
12 2 (0.35%) Go
13 1 (0.17%) Bash
13 1 (0.17%) Korn
13 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (12.98%) Degree
2 26 (4.50%) PMI Certification
3 21 (3.63%) ISTQB
3 21 (3.63%) PMP
4 20 (3.46%) Security Cleared
5 13 (2.25%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.73%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.73%) IIBA
7 8 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.04%) CBAP
8 6 (1.04%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.04%) ISEB
8 6 (1.04%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.87%) SAP Certification
10 4 (0.69%) CCA
10 4 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.52%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.52%) CAPM
11 3 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (18.34%) QA
2 70 (12.11%) Data Quality
3 40 (6.92%) GDPR
4 27 (4.67%) Accessibility
5 19 (3.29%) PMO
6 16 (2.77%) SLA
7 15 (2.60%) HIPAA
8 12 (2.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 11 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (1.21%) IFRS
11 6 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (1.04%) HL7
12 5 (0.87%) GAAP
12 5 (0.87%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.87%) TickIT
13 4 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.52%) WCAG
15 2 (0.35%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.35%) PSD2
16 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (3.46%) Docker
2 9 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.69%) Firmware
3 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.90%) Terraform
3 6 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.35%) Grafana
4 2 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 100 (17.30%) SAP
2 92 (15.92%) Microsoft
3 75 (12.98%) Oracle
4 26 (4.50%) Red Hat
5 22 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 22 (3.81%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.08%) Automation Anywhere
6 12 (2.08%) Intapp
6 12 (2.08%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.08%) UiPath
7 10 (1.73%) Ariba
8 9 (1.56%) FIS
8 9 (1.56%) OpenText
9 8 (1.38%) ION Trading
10 7 (1.21%) IFS
10 7 (1.21%) Workday
11 6 (1.04%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.04%) iManage
12 5 (0.87%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.87%) Databricks