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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 342 332
Rank change year-on-year +72 -10 -25
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 536 303 691
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.81% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.87% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 335 192 544
10th Percentile £38,600 £31,543 £36,550
25th Percentile £49,838 £46,250 £46,088
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year - +5.73% +3.18%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 59,367 34,910 71,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.14% 92.97% 85.66%
Number of salaries quoted 37,486 20,611 53,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £79,030 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +84 251 £67,500 -3.57% 107
North of England -26 94 £60,000 +6.67% 41
Midlands -29 69 £51,250 -0.48% 53
West Midlands -15 55 £50,000 -2.91% 29
South East -11 49 £55,000 +4.76% 90
Yorkshire -29 41 £85,000 +102.89% 18
North West -27 40 £60,000 -7.69% 20
East of England -19 29 £55,000 - 10
South West -33 29 £55,000 +16.40% 11
East Midlands -60 14 £55,000 +15.79% 24
North East -33 13 £47,500 -5.00% 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 27 (5.04%) Confluence
2 25 (4.66%) Apache
2 25 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.66%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.24%) Appian
3 12 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.93%) CMS
4 5 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.37%) WordPress
6 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.19%) SAS
6 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 47 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.41%) MS Visio
3 20 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 64 (11.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.05%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (1.31%) SAP SD
5 6 (1.12%) Elite 3E
5 6 (1.12%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.93%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.93%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.75%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.56%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.56%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 3 (0.56%) SAP GTS
8 3 (0.56%) SAP Travel Management
8 3 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 101 (18.84%) Azure
2 72 (13.43%) Power Platform
3 58 (10.82%) AWS
4 47 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (8.58%) Dynamics 365
6 35 (6.53%) Power Automate
7 29 (5.41%) Amazon S3
7 29 (5.41%) SaaS
8 25 (4.66%) OpenShift
9 18 (3.36%) GCP
10 17 (3.17%) PowerApps
11 16 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.24%) Anthropic Claude
12 12 (2.24%) Azure AI
12 12 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (1.49%) Boomi
13 8 (1.49%) Snowflake
14 7 (1.31%) Asana
14 7 (1.31%) OCI
14 7 (1.31%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.68%) VPN
2 6 (1.12%) HTTP
3 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.37%) GSM
4 2 (0.37%) LAN
4 2 (0.37%) LTE
4 2 (0.37%) WAN
5 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.94%) Power BI
2 30 (5.60%) Oracle Database
3 27 (5.04%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.04%) Tableau
4 25 (4.66%) Apache Hive
4 25 (4.66%) Impala
4 25 (4.66%) Parquet
4 25 (4.66%) Spark SQL
5 12 (2.24%) Pinecone
6 11 (2.05%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.87%) SAP HANA
8 8 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.49%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.31%) MySQL
10 6 (1.12%) DB2
10 6 (1.12%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (1.12%) Power Query
10 6 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 80 (14.93%) JIRA
2 30 (5.60%) Git
3 29 (5.41%) Selenium
4 25 (4.66%) IBM UrbanCode
5 20 (3.73%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.24%) MLflow
7 11 (2.05%) Postman
8 5 (0.93%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.75%) JUnit
9 4 (0.75%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.75%) TestRail
10 3 (0.56%) GitLab
10 3 (0.56%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.56%) Ranorex
10 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.56%) TestNG
10 3 (0.56%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
General
1 222 (41.42%) Social Skills
2 221 (41.23%) Finance
3 166 (30.97%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (12.13%) Banking
5 50 (9.33%) Law
6 46 (8.58%) Manufacturing
7 42 (7.84%) Legal
8 37 (6.90%) Retail
9 36 (6.72%) Investment Banking
10 27 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (4.85%) Public Sector
12 25 (4.66%) Marketing
13 16 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (2.80%) Billing
15 13 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.68%) Games
18 8 (1.49%) Advertising
18 8 (1.49%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 215 (40.11%) Analyst
2 122 (22.76%) Business Analyst
3 66 (12.31%) Consultant
4 59 (11.01%) Lead
5 57 (10.63%) Senior
6 35 (6.53%) Technical Analyst
7 33 (6.16%) Senior Analyst
8 31 (5.78%) SAP Consultant
9 27 (5.04%) Support Analyst
9 27 (5.04%) Transformation Analyst
10 26 (4.85%) Project Manager
11 22 (4.10%) Banking Analyst
12 21 (3.92%) Test Leader
13 18 (3.36%) Senior Business Analyst
14 17 (3.17%) QA Leader
14 17 (3.17%) Systems Analyst
15 16 (2.99%) Automation Engineer
16 15 (2.80%) Technical Manager
16 15 (2.80%) Transformation Manager
17 14 (2.61%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.85%) REST
2 25 (4.66%) Pandas
2 25 (4.66%) PySpark
3 22 (4.10%) Playwright
4 20 (3.73%) Middleware
5 17 (3.17%) RESTful
5 17 (3.17%) Web Services
6 16 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (2.80%) OpenAPI
7 15 (2.80%) Swagger
8 13 (2.43%) Flask
8 13 (2.43%) SAP Fiori
9 12 (2.24%) FastAPI
9 12 (2.24%) JWT
9 12 (2.24%) NumPy
9 12 (2.24%) OAuth
9 12 (2.24%) pytest
9 12 (2.24%) PyTorch
9 12 (2.24%) scikit-learn
9 12 (2.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.28%) Onboarding
2 38 (7.09%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (6.16%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.10%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (2.99%) Low-Code
6 15 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.80%) NHS
7 13 (2.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 11 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.05%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (1.68%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.12%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.93%) Derivative
12 5 (0.93%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.99%) Linux
1 16 (2.99%) Windows
2 6 (1.12%) Windows Server
3 5 (0.93%) Unix
4 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (36.57%) Agile
2 155 (28.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 152 (28.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 138 (25.75%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (21.64%) Requirements Gathering
6 109 (20.34%) Validation
7 102 (19.03%) Migration
8 88 (16.42%) Test Automation
9 82 (15.30%) ERP
10 80 (14.93%) Business Intelligence
11 79 (14.74%) User Stories
12 77 (14.37%) CI/CD
12 77 (14.37%) System Integration Testing
13 75 (13.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 75 (13.99%) Workshop Facilitation
14 72 (13.43%) Business Analysis
14 72 (13.43%) Change Management
15 71 (13.25%) DevOps
16 70 (13.06%) Translating Business Requirements
17 68 (12.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 116 (21.64%) SQL
2 61 (11.38%) Python
3 29 (5.41%) C#
4 18 (3.36%) Java
5 17 (3.17%) JavaScript
6 14 (2.61%) ABAP
7 11 (2.05%) C++
8 7 (1.31%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.93%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.75%) Rust
12 3 (0.56%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.56%) Perl
13 2 (0.37%) Go
13 2 (0.37%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.37%) VBA
14 1 (0.19%) C
14 1 (0.19%) PHP
14 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 72 (13.43%) Degree
2 26 (4.85%) PMI Certification
3 23 (4.29%) ISTQB
4 21 (3.92%) PMP
5 20 (3.73%) Security Cleared
6 15 (2.80%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.87%) IIBA
8 9 (1.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.12%) CBAP
10 6 (1.12%) ISEB
10 6 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.93%) AWS Certification
11 5 (0.93%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.56%) CAPM
13 3 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (19.03%) QA
2 63 (11.75%) Data Quality
3 33 (6.16%) GDPR
4 27 (5.04%) Accessibility
5 17 (3.17%) PMO
6 15 (2.80%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.61%) SLA
8 12 (2.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.12%) HL7
10 6 (1.12%) IFRS
11 5 (0.93%) GAAP
11 5 (0.93%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.93%) TickIT
12 4 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.56%) WCAG
14 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.37%) PSD2
15 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (3.73%) Docker
2 7 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.75%) Firmware
3 4 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.10%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.49%) Terraform
3 7 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.37%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 92 (17.16%) SAP
2 81 (15.11%) Microsoft
3 69 (12.87%) Oracle
4 27 (5.04%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.24%) Automation Anywhere
7 12 (2.24%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.24%) UiPath
8 10 (1.87%) Ariba
8 10 (1.87%) Intapp
9 8 (1.49%) OpenText
10 7 (1.31%) FIS
11 6 (1.12%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.12%) IFS
11 6 (1.12%) ION Trading
11 6 (1.12%) Workday
12 5 (0.93%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.93%) Databricks
13 4 (0.75%) Anaplan