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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 290 402
Rank change year-on-year +37 +112 -174
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 729 435 404
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.01% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.13% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 523 252 250
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,313 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £82,050
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%

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 73,171 38,378 55,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.08% 88.74% 81.34%
Number of salaries quoted 52,052 22,031 32,570
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,485 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.93%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +33 287 £70,000 +7.69% 602
North of England +86 198 £55,000 +4.76% 131
North West +79 125 £55,000 +10.00% 88
South East -52 100 £45,000 -5.26% 161
Midlands -16 83 £45,000 -14.29% 91
West Midlands +2 66 £49,000 +3.16% 64
Yorkshire +15 57 £83,750 +48.89% 25
South West -70 27 £55,500 -3.48% 43
East of England -38 21 £45,050 -15.00% 43
East Midlands -37 17 £45,000 -21.74% 27
North East -47 16 £41,500 +1.22% 18
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 45 (6.17%) Confluence
2 26 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.69%) CMS
5 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 52 (7.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.74%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 90 (12.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (3.57%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.51%) SAP SD
5 10 (1.37%) Workday HCM
6 9 (1.23%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (1.10%) Sage 50
7 8 (1.10%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.96%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.96%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.82%) Elite 3E
10 5 (0.69%) Unit4 Business World
11 4 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.55%) SAP GRC
11 4 (0.55%) SAP GTS
11 4 (0.55%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 143 (19.62%) Azure
2 105 (14.40%) Power Platform
3 88 (12.07%) Dynamics 365
4 63 (8.64%) AWS
5 59 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (7.96%) SaaS
7 35 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (3.84%) PowerApps
9 19 (2.61%) GCP
9 19 (2.61%) Power Automate
10 14 (1.92%) GitHub
11 12 (1.65%) SuccessFactors
12 11 (1.51%) Boomi
12 11 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (0.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (0.82%) Azure AKS
14 6 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (0.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) HTTP
2 2 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (0.27%) Intranet
2 2 (0.27%) SAN
2 2 (0.27%) VoIP
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) FTP
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.11%) Power BI
2 18 (2.47%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.51%) SAP BW
5 10 (1.37%) Metadata
5 10 (1.37%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.37%) SAP HANA
6 8 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.82%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.55%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.41%) DTS
10 3 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.41%) Power Query
10 3 (0.41%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.27%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 94 (12.89%) JIRA
2 31 (4.25%) Selenium
3 24 (3.29%) Git
4 20 (2.74%) Postman
5 17 (2.33%) GitLab
6 13 (1.78%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.78%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.65%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.10%) Gatling
8 8 (1.10%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.96%) Hudson
9 7 (0.96%) JMeter
9 7 (0.96%) JUnit
10 5 (0.69%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.69%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.55%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.55%) TestRail
12 3 (0.41%) LSMW
12 3 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 339 (46.50%) Finance
2 325 (44.58%) Social Skills
3 218 (29.90%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (11.66%) Law
5 61 (8.37%) Manufacturing
6 53 (7.27%) Legal
7 49 (6.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (5.90%) Retail
9 41 (5.62%) Public Sector
10 33 (4.53%) Marketing
11 32 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (4.25%) Banking
12 31 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
13 25 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (2.88%) Billing
15 15 (2.06%) General Ledger
16 11 (1.51%) Advertising
16 11 (1.51%) Aerospace
16 11 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (1.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 206 (28.26%) Analyst
2 130 (17.83%) Consultant
3 116 (15.91%) Business Analyst
4 66 (9.05%) Lead
5 61 (8.37%) Senior
6 40 (5.49%) Support Analyst
7 39 (5.35%) SAP Consultant
8 37 (5.08%) Project Manager
9 33 (4.53%) Systems Analyst
10 30 (4.12%) Tester
11 29 (3.98%) Functional Consultant
12 23 (3.16%) Architect
12 23 (3.16%) Developer
12 23 (3.16%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 22 (3.02%) Systems Support
14 20 (2.74%) Applications Support
14 20 (2.74%) Applications Support Analyst
14 20 (2.74%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
14 20 (2.74%) Product Owner
14 20 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.25%) REST
2 29 (3.98%) Playwright
3 24 (3.29%) Middleware
4 21 (2.88%) SAP Fiori
5 18 (2.47%) JSON
6 17 (2.33%) XML
7 14 (1.92%) Terraform
8 13 (1.78%) SOAP
9 10 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (1.10%) .NET
11 7 (0.96%) ADO
11 7 (0.96%) HTML
11 7 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
11 7 (0.96%) SAP Core Interface
12 6 (0.82%) React
13 5 (0.69%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.69%) CSS
13 5 (0.69%) EDI
13 5 (0.69%) Web Services
14 4 (0.55%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 36 (4.94%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.98%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.06%) Driving Licence
8 15 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.51%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 8 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.10%) NHS
13 7 (0.96%) CMDB
13 7 (0.96%) Derivative
13 7 (0.96%) e-Learning
13 7 (0.96%) Replication
13 7 (0.96%) SystemC
14 6 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.33%) Windows
2 13 (1.78%) Linux
3 3 (0.41%) VMS
3 3 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (37.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 267 (36.63%) Problem-Solving
3 265 (36.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 230 (31.55%) Agile
5 172 (23.59%) ERP
6 159 (21.81%) Requirements Gathering
7 150 (20.58%) Validation
8 142 (19.48%) Migration
9 131 (17.97%) System Integration Testing
10 130 (17.83%) Process Improvement
11 110 (15.09%) CRM
12 108 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 106 (14.54%) Project Delivery
14 105 (14.40%) Data Migration
15 103 (14.13%) Translating Business Requirements
16 102 (13.99%) Business Analysis
16 102 (13.99%) DevOps
16 102 (13.99%) User Stories
17 96 (13.17%) Workshop Facilitation
18 93 (12.76%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 122 (16.74%) SQL
2 29 (3.98%) C#
3 27 (3.70%) Python
4 24 (3.29%) Java
4 24 (3.29%) JavaScript
5 22 (3.02%) ABAP
6 16 (2.19%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.51%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.82%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.69%) C++
10 4 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.41%) Perl
11 3 (0.41%) VBA
12 2 (0.27%) Scala
13 1 (0.14%) Bash
13 1 (0.14%) PHP
13 1 (0.14%) Ruby
13 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (12.21%) Degree
2 50 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 41 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.02%) PMI Certification
5 19 (2.61%) ISTQB
6 17 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.33%) PMP
7 15 (2.06%) ACCA
7 15 (2.06%) CIMA
8 13 (1.78%) SAP Certification
9 10 (1.37%) ISEB
10 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.10%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.55%) CCA
15 4 (0.55%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.41%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (17.70%) QA
2 65 (8.92%) Data Quality
3 57 (7.82%) GDPR
4 17 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.33%) PMO
5 16 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (1.65%) SLA
7 7 (0.96%) WCAG
8 6 (0.82%) GAAP
9 5 (0.69%) TickIT
10 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.55%) GRC
10 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.41%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.41%) IFRS
11 3 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.27%) GxP
12 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (1.65%) Docker
2 5 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) IAG
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.27%) Ansible
3 1 (0.14%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 157 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 122 (16.74%) SAP
3 54 (7.41%) Oracle
4 40 (5.49%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.66%) Sage
6 24 (3.29%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.61%) Workday
8 11 (1.51%) Intapp
9 10 (1.37%) Ariba
9 10 (1.37%) Civica
9 10 (1.37%) FIS
10 9 (1.23%) Concur
10 9 (1.23%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.23%) OpenText
10 9 (1.23%) Xero
11 7 (0.96%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.82%) Databricks
12 6 (0.82%) Google
12 6 (0.82%) iManage
12 6 (0.82%) Pega