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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 341 282
Rank change year-on-year +80 -59 +7
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 455 349 648
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 0.78% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.85% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 277 184 535
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,825 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,826 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,780 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +2.23% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,500 £75,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,625 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +1.82%

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 46,489 41,225 58,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.81% 92.12% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28,280 20,343 45,933
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,750
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 £82,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 11 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 11 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 +85 188 £62,500 -13.79% 77
South East +89 120 £42,500 -27.66% 79
Midlands +33 67 £42,500 -15.00% 34
West Midlands +21 45 £45,000 -12.62% 25
North of England -62 32 £53,750 -2.27% 49
South West -7 23 £47,500 +5.56% 6
East Midlands -1 22 £38,750 +19.23% 9
Yorkshire -25 14 £57,500 +77.00% 18
North West -34 12 £50,000 -23.08% 29
East of England +10 11 £55,000 +15.18% 11
North East -6 6 £41,250 -34.00% 2
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 (5.49%) Confluence
2 12 (2.64%) Appian
2 12 (2.64%) Tomcat
2 12 (2.64%) WebSphere
2 12 (2.64%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.44%) CMS
4 2 (0.44%) WordPress
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.08%) MS Visio
4 12 (2.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 72 (15.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.20%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.88%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 4 (0.88%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.66%) Endur
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.66%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.66%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.66%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.44%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.44%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.44%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (21.76%) Power Platform
2 63 (13.85%) Azure
3 36 (7.91%) Dynamics 365
4 33 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (5.93%) SaaS
6 26 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 21 (4.62%) AWS
8 16 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (2.64%) Anthropic Claude
9 12 (2.64%) Azure AI
10 11 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (2.42%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.76%) Serverless
12 7 (1.54%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.32%) OCI
14 5 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.10%) Lucidchart
14 5 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
15 4 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.64%) SSL
2 9 (1.98%) VPN
3 3 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.44%) GSM
4 2 (0.44%) LAN
4 2 (0.44%) LTE
4 2 (0.44%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.33%) Power BI
2 31 (6.81%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.08%) DB2
5 12 (2.64%) Pinecone
6 9 (1.98%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.54%) MySQL
8 7 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.32%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (1.10%) Metadata
11 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.88%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.66%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.22%) GIS
13 1 (0.22%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 56 (12.31%) JIRA
2 16 (3.52%) Selenium
3 12 (2.64%) Cypress.io
3 12 (2.64%) MLflow
4 6 (1.32%) Postman
5 4 (0.88%) Katalon Studio
5 4 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.66%) Git
6 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.44%) GitLab
7 2 (0.44%) JUnit
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.44%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.44%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.44%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.22%) Appium
8 1 (0.22%) MSI
8 1 (0.22%) NUnit
8 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 221 (48.57%) Finance
2 208 (45.71%) Social Skills
3 97 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (16.70%) Manufacturing
5 57 (12.53%) Marketing
6 33 (7.25%) Banking
7 17 (3.74%) Law
8 16 (3.52%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.30%) Legal
9 15 (3.30%) Retail
10 11 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.20%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.76%) Advertising
13 8 (1.76%) Back Office
13 8 (1.76%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.54%) Billing
15 6 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 221 (48.57%) Analyst
2 87 (19.12%) Senior
3 85 (18.68%) Business Analyst
4 72 (15.82%) Senior Analyst
5 53 (11.65%) Lead
6 47 (10.33%) SAP Analyst
7 36 (7.91%) Developer
8 29 (6.37%) Automation Developer
8 29 (6.37%) Support Analyst
9 27 (5.93%) Consultant
10 26 (5.71%) Applications Support
11 21 (4.62%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
11 21 (4.62%) Test Leader
12 20 (4.40%) Power Platform Developer
13 17 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
14 16 (3.52%) Automation Analyst
14 16 (3.52%) Systems Analyst
15 15 (3.30%) Project Manager
15 15 (3.30%) Senior Business Analyst
16 13 (2.86%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.74%) REST
2 15 (3.30%) OpenAPI
2 15 (3.30%) Swagger
3 13 (2.86%) Web Services
4 12 (2.64%) Django
4 12 (2.64%) Faiss
4 12 (2.64%) FastAPI
4 12 (2.64%) Flask
4 12 (2.64%) Hugging Face
4 12 (2.64%) JWT
4 12 (2.64%) LAPP Stack
4 12 (2.64%) LDAP
4 12 (2.64%) NumPy
4 12 (2.64%) OAuth
4 12 (2.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 12 (2.64%) Pandas
4 12 (2.64%) pytest
4 12 (2.64%) RESTful
4 12 (2.64%) TensorFlow
4 12 (2.64%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.89%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (6.37%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.49%) Onboarding
4 24 (5.27%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (4.18%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (3.52%) Low-Code
8 15 (3.30%) NHS
9 11 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.32%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.10%) CMDB
12 4 (0.88%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.66%) iPad
13 3 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.27%) Windows
2 22 (4.84%) Linux
3 13 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (2.64%) Unix
5 4 (0.88%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.66%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (38.90%) Agile
2 123 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 96 (21.10%) Roadmaps
5 82 (18.02%) Requirements Gathering
6 71 (15.60%) Validation
7 69 (15.16%) AI
7 69 (15.16%) Change Management
8 67 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (14.73%) Test Automation
9 65 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
10 61 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
10 61 (13.41%) Logistics
11 57 (12.53%) Intelligent Automation
12 56 (12.31%) Business Analysis
12 56 (12.31%) Migration
13 55 (12.09%) Data Management
14 54 (11.87%) ERP
15 52 (11.43%) Workshop Facilitation
16 51 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 129 (28.35%) SQL
2 35 (7.69%) Python
3 18 (3.96%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.86%) C#
5 8 (1.76%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.10%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.66%) Java
7 3 (0.66%) VBA
8 2 (0.44%) ABAP
8 2 (0.44%) Bash
8 2 (0.44%) Go
9 1 (0.22%) C++
9 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.22%) Korn
9 1 (0.22%) PHP
9 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 79 (17.36%) Degree
2 22 (4.84%) ISTQB
3 16 (3.52%) AWS Certification
3 16 (3.52%) PMI Certification
4 13 (2.86%) PMP
4 13 (2.86%) Security Cleared
5 12 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (1.98%) SC Cleared
7 8 (1.76%) IIBA
8 7 (1.54%) ISEB
8 7 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.10%) CBAP
11 4 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.88%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.66%) CAPM
12 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.44%) ACCA
13 2 (0.44%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (15.60%) QA
2 24 (5.27%) SLA
3 23 (5.05%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.52%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.76%) GDPR
6 6 (1.32%) HL7
7 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.66%) IFRS
8 3 (0.66%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.66%) PMO
9 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.44%) PSD2
9 2 (0.44%) WCAG
10 1 (0.22%) EMIR
10 1 (0.22%) FATCA
10 1 (0.22%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) MiFID
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) SEPA
10 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 15 (3.30%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.66%) Terraform
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Control-M
6 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Puppet
6 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 102 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 93 (20.44%) SAP
3 45 (9.89%) Blue Prism
4 37 (8.13%) Oracle
5 17 (3.74%) ServiceNow
6 14 (3.08%) IBM
7 13 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.64%) Automation Anywhere
8 12 (2.64%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.64%) UiPath
9 11 (2.42%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.54%) Workday
11 5 (1.10%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.10%) Ariba
12 4 (0.88%) Anaplan
13 3 (0.66%) Concur
13 3 (0.66%) HP
13 3 (0.66%) IFS
13 3 (0.66%) Okta
13 3 (0.66%) VMware