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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 365 258
Rank change year-on-year +134 -107 +25
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 484 349 530
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.93% 0.70% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.78% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 283 180 440
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,335 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £76,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year - -1.71% +6.36%

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 42,728 44,744 41,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.15% 90.24% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25,461 22,347 32,089
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +89 207 £62,500 -13.79% 128
South East +118 142 £42,500 -18.64% 94
Midlands +33 65 £42,500 -15.00% 41
West Midlands +21 41 £42,500 -17.47% 27
North of England -23 29 £52,500 -4.55% 49
East Midlands +3 24 £55,000 +69.23% 14
South West +4 17 £47,500 +11.76% 15
Yorkshire -1 14 £63,750 +96.24% 24
East of England +22 13 £50,000 +23.46% 15
North West -23 11 £37,000 -43.08% 22
North East +7 4 £41,000 -30.21% 3
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 21 (4.34%) Confluence
2 16 (3.31%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.31%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.31%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.45%) Appian
5 4 (0.83%) CMS
6 2 (0.41%) Drupal
6 2 (0.41%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.48%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 82 (16.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (3.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.45%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.24%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.83%) Endur
7 3 (0.62%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.62%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.41%) iTrent
8 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.41%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.41%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.41%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.41%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 108 (22.31%) Power Platform
2 75 (15.50%) Azure
3 48 (9.92%) Dynamics 365
4 44 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (5.99%) Power Automate
6 22 (4.55%) AWS
7 21 (4.34%) SaaS
8 15 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.27%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.86%) OCI
10 9 (1.86%) Serverless
11 8 (1.65%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.45%) Anthropic Claude
12 7 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.45%) Azure AI
12 7 (1.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.31%) SSL
2 13 (2.69%) VPN
3 5 (1.03%) DMZ
3 5 (1.03%) STUN
3 5 (1.03%) VLAN
3 5 (1.03%) VoIP
4 3 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.41%) GSM
5 2 (0.41%) LTE
6 1 (0.21%) HTTP
6 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.21%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.47%) Power BI
2 29 (5.99%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.51%) DB2
3 17 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (2.89%) Relational Database
5 12 (2.48%) Metadata
6 9 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.45%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
9 5 (1.03%) MySQL
10 4 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.83%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.83%) Tableau
11 3 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.62%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.21%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 58 (11.98%) JIRA
2 13 (2.69%) Selenium
3 9 (1.86%) Cypress.io
4 8 (1.65%) Postman
5 7 (1.45%) MLflow
6 5 (1.03%) Git
6 5 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.62%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.41%) GitLab
8 2 (0.41%) Grunt
8 2 (0.41%) gulp
8 2 (0.41%) Ranorex
8 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.41%) webpack
9 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.21%) JUnit
9 1 (0.21%) MSI
9 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 265 (54.75%) Finance
2 237 (48.97%) Social Skills
3 104 (21.49%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (18.18%) Manufacturing
5 86 (17.77%) Marketing
6 39 (8.06%) Banking
7 27 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (5.58%) Retail
8 24 (4.96%) Legal
9 22 (4.55%) Law
10 16 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.69%) Investment Banking
13 12 (2.48%) Public Sector
14 10 (2.07%) Back Office
14 10 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.24%) Advertising
16 6 (1.24%) General Ledger
16 6 (1.24%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 228 (47.11%) Analyst
2 101 (20.87%) Senior
3 89 (18.39%) Senior Analyst
4 75 (15.50%) Business Analyst
5 61 (12.60%) SAP Analyst
6 47 (9.71%) Lead
7 41 (8.47%) Developer
8 37 (7.64%) Consultant
9 36 (7.44%) Applications Support
10 29 (5.99%) Automation Developer
11 26 (5.37%) Support Analyst
12 21 (4.34%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 20 (4.13%) Power Platform Developer
13 20 (4.13%) Test Leader
14 19 (3.93%) Systems Analyst
15 18 (3.72%) Functional Consultant
16 16 (3.31%) Automation Analyst
16 16 (3.31%) Infrastructure Support
17 15 (3.10%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
17 15 (3.10%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.31%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.31%) LDAP
1 16 (3.31%) WebSphere MQ
2 14 (2.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (2.48%) REST
4 11 (2.27%) XML
5 9 (1.86%) .NET
5 9 (1.86%) JSON
5 9 (1.86%) OpenAPI
5 9 (1.86%) RESTful
5 9 (1.86%) Swagger
5 9 (1.86%) Web Services
6 7 (1.45%) Faiss
6 7 (1.45%) FastAPI
6 7 (1.45%) Hugging Face
6 7 (1.45%) JWT
6 7 (1.45%) Pandas
6 7 (1.45%) pytest
6 7 (1.45%) PyTorch
6 7 (1.45%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.50%) Greenfield Project
2 38 (7.85%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.75%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.75%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.27%) NHS
7 8 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.65%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.24%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.24%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.03%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.03%) CMDB
10 5 (1.03%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.03%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.03%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.02%) Windows
2 31 (6.40%) Linux
3 16 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (3.31%) Unix
4 7 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.03%) Debian
5 5 (1.03%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (38.84%) Agile
2 148 (30.58%) Problem-Solving
3 99 (20.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 87 (17.98%) Roadmaps
5 77 (15.91%) Translating Business Requirements
6 75 (15.50%) Logistics
7 74 (15.29%) Change Management
8 73 (15.08%) ERP
9 72 (14.88%) Data Management
10 68 (14.05%) Migration
11 67 (13.84%) AI
11 67 (13.84%) Requirements Gathering
12 63 (13.02%) Incident Management
13 62 (12.81%) Business Analysis
13 62 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 62 (12.81%) Validation
14 60 (12.40%) Data Collection
14 60 (12.40%) Impact Analysis
14 60 (12.40%) Quality Management
14 60 (12.40%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 135 (27.89%) SQL
2 40 (8.26%) Python
3 19 (3.93%) JavaScript
4 15 (3.10%) C#
5 11 (2.27%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.83%) Java
7 3 (0.62%) VBA
8 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.21%) Bash
9 1 (0.21%) PHP
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 90 (18.60%) Degree
2 29 (5.99%) ISTQB
3 19 (3.93%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.31%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.27%) PMI Certification
6 11 (2.27%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (1.65%) PMP
7 8 (1.65%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.45%) IIBA
9 6 (1.24%) ISEB
10 5 (1.03%) ACCA
10 5 (1.03%) CBAP
10 5 (1.03%) CIMA
10 5 (1.03%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (14.46%) QA
2 29 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 27 (5.58%) SLA
4 9 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.03%) GDPR
6 5 (1.03%) HL7
6 5 (1.03%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.41%) MiFID
7 2 (0.41%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) EMIR
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) PSD2
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.21%) UCITS
System Software
1 8 (1.65%) Docker
2 5 (1.03%) Kamailio
3 4 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (1.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.41%) Grafana
5 2 (0.41%) Terraform
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
1 115 (23.76%) Microsoft
2 100 (20.66%) SAP
3 45 (9.30%) Blue Prism
4 40 (8.26%) Oracle
5 18 (3.72%) IBM
6 17 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.31%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.45%) Automation Anywhere
8 7 (1.45%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.45%) UiPath
8 7 (1.45%) Workday
9 5 (1.03%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.83%) Anaplan
10 4 (0.83%) Ariba
10 4 (0.83%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.83%) Databricks
11 3 (0.62%) Apple
11 3 (0.62%) HP
11 3 (0.62%) VMware