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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 346 307
Rank change year-on-year +78 -39 -8
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 469 353 627
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.83% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.89% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 283 192 515
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,775 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,000 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,000 £85,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -

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 48,558 39,642 58,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.92% 93.04% 88.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29,771 20,090 46,517
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £46,250 £40,000
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 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,075 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £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 27 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 27 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 +81 200 £62,500 -16.67% 91
South East +58 104 £42,500 -26.09% 83
Midlands +18 66 £42,500 -17.47% 31
West Midlands +21 44 £44,772 -13.06% 17
North of England -63 39 £52,500 -4.55% 58
South West +4 27 £47,500 - 11
East Midlands -13 22 £37,500 -16.67% 14
East of England +12 20 £60,000 +9.09% 18
North West -56 17 £51,500 -20.77% 37
Yorkshire -34 15 £57,500 +77.00% 18
North East -4 7 £43,000 -31.20% 4
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 (5.33%) Confluence
2 21 (4.48%) Apache
2 21 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (4.48%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.56%) Appian
4 11 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 11 (2.35%) Tomcat
4 11 (2.35%) WebSphere
4 11 (2.35%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.43%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) WordPress
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 38 (8.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.12%) MS Visio
3 19 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 58 (12.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.13%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.85%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 4 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.85%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.64%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.64%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.64%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.43%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.43%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.43%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 99 (21.11%) Power Platform
2 65 (13.86%) Azure
3 43 (9.17%) AWS
4 35 (7.46%) Dynamics 365
5 33 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (5.97%) Amazon S3
7 27 (5.76%) SaaS
8 25 (5.33%) Power Automate
9 21 (4.48%) OpenShift
10 16 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (2.56%) Azure AI
12 11 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.13%) PowerApps
14 8 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.71%) OCI
14 8 (1.71%) Serverless
15 5 (1.07%) Lucidchart
15 5 (1.07%) SuccessFactors
16 4 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.35%) SSL
2 9 (1.92%) VPN
3 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.43%) GSM
4 2 (0.43%) LAN
4 2 (0.43%) LTE
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.02%) Power BI
2 29 (6.18%) SQL Server
3 25 (5.33%) Oracle Database
4 22 (4.69%) Tableau
5 21 (4.48%) Apache Hive
5 21 (4.48%) Impala
5 21 (4.48%) Parquet
5 21 (4.48%) Spark SQL
6 16 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (2.99%) DB2
8 12 (2.56%) Pinecone
9 10 (2.13%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.49%) MySQL
11 7 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
13 5 (1.07%) Metadata
14 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 60 (12.79%) JIRA
2 24 (5.12%) Git
3 22 (4.69%) Selenium
4 21 (4.48%) IBM UrbanCode
5 16 (3.41%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.56%) MLflow
7 6 (1.28%) Postman
8 3 (0.64%) JUnit
8 3 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.43%) Ranorex
9 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.43%) TestDirector
9 2 (0.43%) TestNG
9 2 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.21%) Appium
10 1 (0.21%) GitLab
10 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 227 (48.40%) Finance
2 200 (42.64%) Social Skills
3 112 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (13.01%) Manufacturing
5 60 (12.79%) Banking
6 45 (9.59%) Marketing
7 33 (7.04%) Investment Banking
8 25 (5.33%) Legal
9 21 (4.48%) Law
10 17 (3.62%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.20%) Retail
12 12 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.71%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.49%) Billing
16 6 (1.28%) Advertising
16 6 (1.28%) Front Office
16 6 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (1.07%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 235 (50.11%) Analyst
2 97 (20.68%) Business Analyst
3 78 (16.63%) Senior
4 62 (13.22%) Senior Analyst
5 52 (11.09%) Lead
6 39 (8.32%) Developer
7 35 (7.46%) SAP Analyst
8 30 (6.40%) Support Analyst
9 29 (6.18%) Automation Developer
9 29 (6.18%) Technical Analyst
10 28 (5.97%) Consultant
11 25 (5.33%) Test Leader
12 24 (5.12%) Applications Support
13 23 (4.90%) Transformation Analyst
14 21 (4.48%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
15 20 (4.26%) Power Platform Developer
16 18 (3.84%) Banking Analyst
16 18 (3.84%) Senior Business Analyst
17 17 (3.62%) Systems Analyst
18 16 (3.41%) Automation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (4.90%) Pandas
2 21 (4.48%) PySpark
3 17 (3.62%) REST
4 15 (3.20%) OpenAPI
4 15 (3.20%) Swagger
5 14 (2.99%) Playwright
5 14 (2.99%) Web Services
6 13 (2.77%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (2.77%) RESTful
7 12 (2.56%) Django
7 12 (2.56%) Faiss
7 12 (2.56%) FastAPI
7 12 (2.56%) Hugging Face
7 12 (2.56%) JWT
7 12 (2.56%) NumPy
7 12 (2.56%) OAuth
7 12 (2.56%) pytest
7 12 (2.56%) PyTorch
7 12 (2.56%) scikit-learn
7 12 (2.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.59%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (5.54%) Product Ownership
3 24 (5.12%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.12%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (3.41%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.20%) NHS
8 7 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.28%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.07%) CMDB
10 5 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.85%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.90%) Linux
1 23 (4.90%) Windows
2 14 (2.99%) Unix
3 12 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (42.64%) Agile
2 116 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (21.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 95 (20.26%) Roadmaps
5 92 (19.62%) AI
6 89 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 88 (18.76%) Validation
8 87 (18.55%) Requirements Gathering
9 75 (15.99%) Test Automation
10 74 (15.78%) Change Management
11 64 (13.65%) Translating Business Requirements
12 63 (13.43%) Migration
13 60 (12.79%) Business Intelligence
14 59 (12.58%) CI/CD
15 57 (12.15%) Intelligent Automation
16 55 (11.73%) Business Analysis
16 55 (11.73%) ERP
16 55 (11.73%) User Stories
17 53 (11.30%) Workshop Facilitation
18 52 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 154 (32.84%) SQL
2 58 (12.37%) Python
3 17 (3.62%) C#
4 15 (3.20%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.71%) T-SQL
6 7 (1.49%) Java
7 5 (1.07%) C++
7 5 (1.07%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.64%) ABAP
8 3 (0.64%) Rust
8 3 (0.64%) VBA
9 2 (0.43%) Bash
9 2 (0.43%) Go
9 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.21%) Korn
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (14.93%) Degree
2 20 (4.26%) ISTQB
3 18 (3.84%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.20%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.20%) PMP
5 14 (2.99%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (2.13%) SC Cleared
8 8 (1.71%) IIBA
9 7 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.49%) ISEB
10 6 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (1.07%) CBAP
11 5 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.64%) CAPM
13 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.43%) ACCA
14 2 (0.43%) CIMA
14 2 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (16.42%) QA
2 44 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 23 (4.90%) SLA
4 20 (4.26%) Accessibility
5 19 (4.05%) GDPR
6 10 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (2.13%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.28%) HL7
8 5 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.07%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.85%) IFRS
10 3 (0.64%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.64%) PMO
11 2 (0.43%) GAAP
11 2 (0.43%) PSD2
11 2 (0.43%) WCAG
12 1 (0.21%) FATCA
12 1 (0.21%) MiFID
12 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (3.20%) Docker
2 5 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.64%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) Control-M
5 1 (0.21%) Grafana
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 102 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 77 (16.42%) SAP
3 60 (12.79%) Oracle
4 46 (9.81%) Blue Prism
5 33 (7.04%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.62%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.77%) IBM
8 12 (2.56%) Automation Anywhere
8 12 (2.56%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.56%) UiPath
9 11 (2.35%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.28%) Workday
11 5 (1.07%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.07%) Ariba
12 4 (0.85%) Anaplan
12 4 (0.85%) Databricks
12 4 (0.85%) IFS
13 3 (0.64%) Concur
13 3 (0.64%) HP
13 3 (0.64%) Okta