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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 356 255
Rank change year-on-year +123 -101 +31
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 479 348 538
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.92% 0.70% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.78% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 275 180 448
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 £70,750 £72,500 £76,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £59,250
% change year-on-year - -2.95% +7.73%

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 42,885 44,702 41,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.30% 90.14% 91.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,602 22,418 32,186
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 £76,250 £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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 +108 206 £62,500 -13.79% 216
South East +117 139 £42,500 -18.64% 389
Midlands +39 65 £42,500 -15.00% 291
West Midlands +27 41 £42,500 -17.47% 160
North of England -24 31 £52,500 -4.55% 308
East Midlands -2 24 £55,000 +69.23% 115
South West +10 15 £50,500 +18.82% 159
Yorkshire +7 14 £63,750 +96.24% 136
East of England +20 13 £50,000 +23.46% 214
North West -21 13 £43,500 -33.08% 152
North East +3 4 £41,000 -30.21% 20
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 16 (3.34%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.34%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.34%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.46%) Appian
5 4 (0.84%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Drupal
6 2 (0.42%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.51%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 82 (17.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.46%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.04%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.84%) Endur
7 3 (0.63%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.63%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.42%) iTrent
8 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.42%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.42%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.42%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.42%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 106 (22.13%) Power Platform
2 72 (15.03%) Azure
3 46 (9.60%) Dynamics 365
4 42 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (6.26%) Power Automate
6 23 (4.80%) AWS
7 20 (4.18%) SaaS
8 15 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.30%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.09%) OCI
11 9 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.88%) Serverless
12 8 (1.67%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (1.46%) Anthropic Claude
13 7 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.46%) Azure AI
13 7 (1.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.34%) SSL
2 12 (2.51%) VPN
3 5 (1.04%) DMZ
3 5 (1.04%) STUN
3 5 (1.04%) VLAN
3 5 (1.04%) VoIP
4 2 (0.42%) GSM
4 2 (0.42%) LTE
4 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.21%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.35%) Power BI
2 30 (6.26%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.55%) DB2
3 17 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.34%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.09%) Metadata
5 10 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.46%) MySQL
7 7 (1.46%) Pinecone
8 5 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
9 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (0.84%) Tableau
10 3 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.63%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 56 (11.69%) JIRA
2 9 (1.88%) Selenium
3 7 (1.46%) MLflow
4 6 (1.25%) Cypress.io
4 6 (1.25%) Git
4 6 (1.25%) Postman
5 4 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.42%) GitLab
7 2 (0.42%) Grunt
7 2 (0.42%) gulp
7 2 (0.42%) webpack
8 1 (0.21%) Appium
8 1 (0.21%) JUnit
8 1 (0.21%) Ranorex
8 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 265 (55.32%) Finance
2 234 (48.85%) Social Skills
3 103 (21.50%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (18.37%) Marketing
5 87 (18.16%) Manufacturing
6 38 (7.93%) Banking
7 28 (5.85%) Retail
8 27 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (5.22%) Legal
10 22 (4.59%) Law
11 17 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.71%) Investment Banking
14 12 (2.51%) Public Sector
15 10 (2.09%) Back Office
15 10 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.25%) General Ledger
17 6 (1.25%) Health Technology
18 5 (1.04%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 226 (47.18%) Analyst
2 100 (20.88%) Senior
3 88 (18.37%) Senior Analyst
4 75 (15.66%) Business Analyst
5 61 (12.73%) SAP Analyst
6 45 (9.39%) Lead
7 43 (8.98%) Developer
8 38 (7.93%) Consultant
9 36 (7.52%) Applications Support
10 29 (6.05%) Automation Developer
11 26 (5.43%) Support Analyst
12 21 (4.38%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 20 (4.18%) Power Platform Developer
14 19 (3.97%) Functional Consultant
14 19 (3.97%) Systems Analyst
15 18 (3.76%) Test Leader
16 16 (3.34%) Automation Analyst
16 16 (3.34%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
16 16 (3.34%) Infrastructure Support
17 15 (3.13%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.34%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.34%) LDAP
1 16 (3.34%) WebSphere MQ
2 14 (2.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (2.51%) REST
4 11 (2.30%) JSON
5 10 (2.09%) XML
6 9 (1.88%) .NET
6 9 (1.88%) OpenAPI
6 9 (1.88%) RESTful
6 9 (1.88%) Swagger
6 9 (1.88%) Web Services
7 7 (1.46%) Faiss
7 7 (1.46%) FastAPI
7 7 (1.46%) Hugging Face
7 7 (1.46%) JWT
7 7 (1.46%) Pandas
7 7 (1.46%) pytest
7 7 (1.46%) PyTorch
7 7 (1.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.60%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (8.14%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (4.59%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.09%) NHS
8 8 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.67%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.46%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.04%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.04%) CMDB
10 5 (1.04%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.84%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.89%) Linux
1 33 (6.89%) Windows
2 16 (3.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 16 (3.34%) Unix
3 7 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.04%) Debian
4 5 (1.04%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (38.00%) Agile
2 147 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
3 95 (19.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 87 (18.16%) Roadmaps
5 76 (15.87%) Translating Business Requirements
6 75 (15.66%) Change Management
7 74 (15.45%) Logistics
8 71 (14.82%) ERP
9 70 (14.61%) Data Management
10 69 (14.41%) Migration
11 67 (13.99%) AI
11 67 (13.99%) Requirements Gathering
12 63 (13.15%) Incident Management
13 62 (12.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 61 (12.73%) Business Analysis
14 61 (12.73%) Validation
15 60 (12.53%) Data Collection
15 60 (12.53%) Impact Analysis
15 60 (12.53%) Quality Management
16 59 (12.32%) Architectural Design
Programming Languages
1 134 (27.97%) SQL
2 40 (8.35%) Python
3 21 (4.38%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.71%) C#
5 11 (2.30%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.84%) Java
7 3 (0.63%) PHP
7 3 (0.63%) VBA
8 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.21%) Bash
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 90 (18.79%) Degree
2 25 (5.22%) ISTQB
3 19 (3.97%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (3.34%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (2.30%) Security Cleared
6 10 (2.09%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.67%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.46%) IIBA
8 7 (1.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 7 (1.46%) PMP
9 6 (1.25%) ISEB
10 5 (1.04%) ACCA
10 5 (1.04%) CBAP
10 5 (1.04%) CIMA
10 5 (1.04%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.84%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (13.78%) QA
2 27 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.64%) SLA
3 7 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.04%) HL7
5 5 (1.04%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.84%) GDPR
7 2 (0.42%) MiFID
7 2 (0.42%) 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 (1.67%) Docker
2 5 (1.04%) Kamailio
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (1.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.42%) Grafana
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.42%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Control-M
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.21%) Puppet
5 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 113 (23.59%) Microsoft
2 99 (20.67%) SAP
3 45 (9.39%) Blue Prism
4 39 (8.14%) Oracle
5 18 (3.76%) IBM
6 17 (3.55%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.34%) Red Hat
8 15 (3.13%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.46%) Automation Anywhere
9 7 (1.46%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.46%) UiPath
9 7 (1.46%) Workday
10 5 (1.04%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.84%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.84%) Ariba
11 4 (0.84%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.84%) Databricks
12 3 (0.63%) Concur
12 3 (0.63%) HP
12 3 (0.63%) VMware