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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 226 380 266
Rank change year-on-year +154 -114 +23
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 485 341 540
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.92% 0.70% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.77% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 285 171 448
10th Percentile £36,250 £30,000 £38,375
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,875 £76,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £58,250
% change year-on-year - -1.29% +5.91%

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 42,879 44,101 42,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.54% 90.44% 90.20%
Number of salaries quoted 25,666 21,767 33,083
10th Percentile £28,571 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
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 7 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 7 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 +104 204 £62,500 -12.28% 95
South East +118 144 £42,500 -22.17% 108
Midlands +38 67 £45,000 -6.25% 64
West Midlands +33 44 £42,500 -15.00% 28
North of England -32 30 £52,500 -4.55% 72
East Midlands +11 23 £53,750 +65.38% 36
South West +7 17 £47,500 +11.76% 44
Yorkshire -6 15 £63,750 +96.24% 41
East of England +19 12 £55,000 +35.80% 44
North West -25 11 £37,000 -39.62% 23
North East +4 4 £41,000 -30.21% 8
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 (4.33%) Confluence
2 16 (3.30%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.30%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.30%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (1.65%) Appian
3 8 (1.65%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.82%) CMS
5 2 (0.41%) Drupal
5 2 (0.41%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 82 (16.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.65%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.24%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.24%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.82%) Endur
7 3 (0.62%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.62%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.41%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.41%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.41%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.41%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.41%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.41%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 107 (22.06%) Power Platform
2 76 (15.67%) Azure
3 45 (9.28%) Dynamics 365
4 43 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (5.77%) Power Automate
6 22 (4.54%) AWS
6 22 (4.54%) SaaS
7 16 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.27%) PowerApps
9 9 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (1.86%) OCI
9 9 (1.86%) Serverless
10 8 (1.65%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.65%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.65%) Azure AI
10 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.30%) SSL
2 14 (2.89%) VPN
3 5 (1.03%) DMZ
3 5 (1.03%) STUN
3 5 (1.03%) VLAN
3 5 (1.03%) VoIP
4 3 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.41%) GSM
5 2 (0.41%) LTE
6 1 (0.21%) HTTP
6 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.21%) LAN
6 1 (0.21%) RFID
6 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.87%) Power BI
2 31 (6.39%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.51%) DB2
5 14 (2.89%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.47%) Metadata
7 9 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.86%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.65%) Pinecone
9 7 (1.44%) MySQL
10 6 (1.24%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.82%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.82%) Tableau
12 3 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.62%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.62%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 59 (12.16%) JIRA
2 14 (2.89%) Selenium
3 10 (2.06%) Cypress.io
4 8 (1.65%) MLflow
4 8 (1.65%) Postman
5 5 (1.03%) Git
5 5 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.62%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.41%) GitLab
7 2 (0.41%) Grunt
7 2 (0.41%) gulp
7 2 (0.41%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.41%) webpack
8 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.21%) JUnit
8 1 (0.21%) MSI
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 261 (53.81%) Finance
2 234 (48.25%) Social Skills
3 104 (21.44%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (17.94%) Manufacturing
5 83 (17.11%) Marketing
6 40 (8.25%) Banking
7 23 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (4.74%) Law
7 23 (4.74%) Legal
7 23 (4.74%) Retail
8 14 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.68%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.47%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.86%) Back Office
13 7 (1.44%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.24%) Advertising
14 6 (1.24%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 227 (46.80%) Analyst
2 101 (20.82%) Senior
3 90 (18.56%) Senior Analyst
4 75 (15.46%) Business Analyst
5 61 (12.58%) SAP Analyst
6 50 (10.31%) Lead
7 42 (8.66%) Developer
8 36 (7.42%) Applications Support
9 35 (7.22%) Consultant
10 29 (5.98%) Automation Developer
11 26 (5.36%) Support Analyst
12 21 (4.33%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 20 (4.12%) Power Platform Developer
13 20 (4.12%) Test Leader
14 18 (3.71%) Systems Analyst
15 16 (3.30%) Automation Analyst
15 16 (3.30%) Infrastructure Support
16 15 (3.09%) Functional Consultant
16 15 (3.09%) Senior Business Analyst
16 15 (3.09%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.30%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.30%) LDAP
1 16 (3.30%) WebSphere MQ
2 15 (3.09%) REST
3 14 (2.89%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (2.27%) XML
5 10 (2.06%) JSON
5 10 (2.06%) OpenAPI
5 10 (2.06%) RESTful
5 10 (2.06%) Swagger
5 10 (2.06%) Web Services
6 9 (1.86%) .NET
7 8 (1.65%) Django
7 8 (1.65%) Faiss
7 8 (1.65%) FastAPI
7 8 (1.65%) Hugging Face
7 8 (1.65%) JWT
7 8 (1.65%) NumPy
7 8 (1.65%) OAuth
7 8 (1.65%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.48%) Greenfield Project
2 36 (7.42%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 24 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.74%) Linux Command Line
5 14 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.68%) NHS
7 12 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.86%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.24%) CMDB
11 6 (1.24%) Reference Data
11 6 (1.24%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.03%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.03%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.03%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.03%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.22%) Windows
2 33 (6.80%) Linux
3 17 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.30%) Unix
5 8 (1.65%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.03%) Debian
6 5 (1.03%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (38.76%) Agile
2 148 (30.52%) Problem-Solving
3 99 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 91 (18.76%) Roadmaps
5 77 (15.88%) Translating Business Requirements
6 74 (15.26%) Change Management
6 74 (15.26%) Logistics
7 71 (14.64%) Data Management
8 68 (14.02%) AI
9 67 (13.81%) ERP
10 65 (13.40%) Requirements Gathering
11 64 (13.20%) Incident Management
11 64 (13.20%) Migration
12 63 (12.99%) Validation
13 62 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 62 (12.78%) Test Automation
14 60 (12.37%) Business Analysis
14 60 (12.37%) Data Collection
14 60 (12.37%) Impact Analysis
14 60 (12.37%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 135 (27.84%) SQL
2 41 (8.45%) Python
3 21 (4.33%) JavaScript
4 15 (3.09%) C#
5 11 (2.27%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.82%) Java
7 3 (0.62%) VBA
8 2 (0.41%) Bash
8 2 (0.41%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.21%) Korn
9 1 (0.21%) PHP
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.21%) R
9 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (17.53%) Degree
2 29 (5.98%) ISTQB
3 19 (3.92%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.30%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (2.47%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.27%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (1.65%) PMP
7 8 (1.65%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.44%) IIBA
9 6 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.24%) ISEB
10 5 (1.03%) CBAP
11 4 (0.82%) ACCA
11 4 (0.82%) CIMA
11 4 (0.82%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (14.64%) QA
2 29 (5.98%) Data Quality
3 28 (5.77%) SLA
4 10 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.24%) HL7
7 5 (1.03%) GDPR
7 5 (1.03%) ISO 9001
7 5 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.41%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) PSD2
9 1 (0.21%) EMIR
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.21%) MiFID
9 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (1.86%) Docker
2 5 (1.03%) Kamailio
3 4 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.41%) Grafana
5 2 (0.41%) Terraform
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Control-M
6 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Puppet
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 112 (23.09%) Microsoft
2 101 (20.82%) SAP
3 45 (9.28%) Blue Prism
4 41 (8.45%) Oracle
5 18 (3.71%) IBM
5 18 (3.71%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.51%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.65%) Automation Anywhere
7 8 (1.65%) OpenAI
7 8 (1.65%) UiPath
8 7 (1.44%) Workday
9 5 (1.03%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.82%) Anaplan
10 4 (0.82%) Ariba
10 4 (0.82%) Databricks
11 3 (0.62%) Apple
11 3 (0.62%) Bloomberg
11 3 (0.62%) HP
11 3 (0.62%) VMware