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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 246 361 278
Rank change year-on-year +115 -83 +15
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 463 351 572
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.86% 0.73% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.81% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 264 184 473
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,750 £38,800
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +5.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £56,250 £57,530 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% +0.05% +4.55%

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 43,328 43,506 47,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.78% 91.02% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 26,008 21,252 36,787
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% -4.71%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £78,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -7.26%

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 19 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 19 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 +97 194 £62,500 -12.28% 85
South East +119 136 £42,500 -21.61% 100
Midlands +38 63 £42,500 -12.37% 45
West Midlands +38 43 £42,500 -15.00% 24
North of England -36 30 £55,000 - 49
East Midlands 0 20 £40,000 +23.08% 21
South West +4 19 £47,500 +15.15% 22
Yorkshire -14 16 £63,750 +96.24% 26
East of England +21 10 £55,000 +35.80% 30
North West -39 10 £43,500 -33.08% 18
North East +5 4 £41,000 -30.21% 7
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 19 (4.10%) Confluence
2 16 (3.46%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.46%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.46%) WebSphere Application Server
3 10 (2.16%) Appian
4 8 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.86%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Drupal
6 2 (0.43%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.38%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 84 (18.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.73%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.86%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.86%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.65%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.65%) Endur
6 3 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.65%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.43%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 100 (21.60%) Power Platform
2 67 (14.47%) Azure
3 36 (7.78%) Dynamics 365
4 34 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (5.62%) SaaS
6 24 (5.18%) Power Automate
7 22 (4.75%) AWS
8 18 (3.89%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.38%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.16%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (2.16%) Azure AI
11 9 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.94%) Serverless
12 8 (1.73%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.73%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.51%) OCI
14 6 (1.30%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.46%) SSL
2 12 (2.59%) VPN
3 3 (0.65%) DMZ
3 3 (0.65%) STUN
3 3 (0.65%) VLAN
3 3 (0.65%) VoIP
3 3 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.43%) GSM
4 2 (0.43%) LTE
5 1 (0.22%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.22%) LAN
5 1 (0.22%) RFID
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.29%) Power BI
2 33 (7.13%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.67%) DB2
5 12 (2.59%) Metadata
5 12 (2.59%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.16%) Pinecone
7 9 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.51%) MySQL
9 7 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (1.30%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.86%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.65%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.65%) Tableau
13 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (11.88%) JIRA
2 16 (3.46%) Selenium
3 12 (2.59%) Cypress.io
4 10 (2.16%) MLflow
5 8 (1.73%) Postman
6 6 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.08%) Git
8 3 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.43%) GitLab
9 2 (0.43%) Grunt
9 2 (0.43%) gulp
9 2 (0.43%) Ranorex
9 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.43%) webpack
10 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.22%) JUnit
10 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 245 (52.92%) Finance
2 229 (49.46%) Social Skills
3 99 (21.38%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (19.44%) Manufacturing
5 76 (16.41%) Marketing
6 41 (8.86%) Banking
7 20 (4.32%) Legal
8 19 (4.10%) Law
8 19 (4.10%) Retail
9 13 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.81%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (2.38%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.73%) Back Office
13 7 (1.51%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.30%) Advertising
15 5 (1.08%) Billing
Job Titles
1 223 (48.16%) Analyst
2 104 (22.46%) Senior
3 92 (19.87%) Senior Analyst
4 74 (15.98%) Business Analyst
5 61 (13.17%) SAP Analyst
6 48 (10.37%) Lead
7 41 (8.86%) Developer
8 34 (7.34%) Applications Support
9 29 (6.26%) Automation Developer
10 25 (5.40%) Consultant
11 24 (5.18%) Support Analyst
12 21 (4.54%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 20 (4.32%) Power Platform Developer
14 19 (4.10%) Test Leader
15 17 (3.67%) Senior Business Analyst
16 16 (3.46%) Automation Analyst
17 15 (3.24%) Linux Support
17 15 (3.24%) Systems Analyst
18 14 (3.02%) Infrastructure Support
18 14 (3.02%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.46%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.46%) LDAP
1 16 (3.46%) REST
1 16 (3.46%) WebSphere MQ
2 12 (2.59%) OpenAPI
2 12 (2.59%) RESTful
2 12 (2.59%) Swagger
3 11 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (2.16%) Django
4 10 (2.16%) Faiss
4 10 (2.16%) FastAPI
4 10 (2.16%) Hugging Face
4 10 (2.16%) JWT
4 10 (2.16%) NumPy
4 10 (2.16%) OAuth
4 10 (2.16%) pytest
4 10 (2.16%) PyTorch
4 10 (2.16%) scikit-learn
4 10 (2.16%) TensorFlow
4 10 (2.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.94%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (6.48%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.97%) Linux Command Line
3 23 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.75%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.59%) Low-Code
7 12 (2.59%) NHS
8 7 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.30%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.30%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.08%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.08%) CMDB
10 5 (1.08%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.86%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.86%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.13%) Windows
2 31 (6.70%) Linux
3 17 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.46%) Unix
5 6 (1.30%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.65%) Debian
9 1 (0.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (37.15%) Agile
2 144 (31.10%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (20.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 90 (19.44%) Roadmaps
5 76 (16.41%) Translating Business Requirements
6 74 (15.98%) Logistics
7 70 (15.12%) AI
7 70 (15.12%) Data Management
8 65 (14.04%) Change Management
8 65 (14.04%) Incident Management
9 63 (13.61%) Validation
10 61 (13.17%) Requirements Gathering
10 61 (13.17%) Test Automation
11 60 (12.96%) Data Collection
11 60 (12.96%) Impact Analysis
11 60 (12.96%) Quality Management
12 59 (12.74%) Architectural Design
12 59 (12.74%) Business Analysis
12 59 (12.74%) Technical Leadership
13 57 (12.31%) Decision Quality
Programming Languages
1 132 (28.51%) SQL
2 42 (9.07%) Python
3 21 (4.54%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.59%) C#
5 11 (2.38%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.65%) Java
7 3 (0.65%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.65%) VBA
8 2 (0.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.22%) Go
9 1 (0.22%) Korn
9 1 (0.22%) PHP
9 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.22%) R
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (16.41%) Degree
2 28 (6.05%) ISTQB
3 19 (4.10%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.46%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (2.59%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.38%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.73%) PMP
7 8 (1.73%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.51%) IIBA
8 7 (1.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.08%) CBAP
10 5 (1.08%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.08%) ISEB
11 4 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.43%) ACCA
13 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (13.82%) QA
2 28 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 27 (5.83%) SLA
4 12 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.30%) HL7
6 5 (1.08%) GDPR
7 3 (0.65%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.65%) PMO
8 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.43%) PSD2
9 1 (0.22%) EMIR
9 1 (0.22%) FATCA
9 1 (0.22%) GAAP
9 1 (0.22%) IFRS
9 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.22%) MiFID
9 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (2.59%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 14 (3.02%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Terraform
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
1 107 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 103 (22.25%) SAP
3 45 (9.72%) Blue Prism
4 37 (7.99%) Oracle
5 18 (3.89%) IBM
6 17 (3.67%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.16%) Automation Anywhere
8 10 (2.16%) OpenAI
8 10 (2.16%) UiPath
9 7 (1.51%) Workday
10 5 (1.08%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.86%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.86%) Ariba
11 4 (0.86%) Databricks
12 3 (0.65%) Apple
12 3 (0.65%) Concur
12 3 (0.65%) iManage
12 3 (0.65%) Okta