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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 357 325
Rank change year-on-year +89 -32 -23
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 540 297 688
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.68% 0.78% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.84% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 342 189 542
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,286 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,981 £46,250 £45,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -

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 59,771 35,248 71,159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.96% 93.04% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37,816 20,543 53,619
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +84 251 £67,500 -3.57% 98
North of England -7 100 £60,000 +4.35% 42
Midlands -25 66 £52,500 +1.95% 50
West Midlands -19 53 £51,250 -0.48% 29
South East -6 48 £55,000 +8.23% 74
Yorkshire -28 45 £85,000 +95.64% 18
North West -31 42 £60,000 -7.69% 21
East of England -2 31 £55,000 - 12
South West -33 29 £55,000 +10.00% 11
North East -27 13 £47,500 -5.00% 3
East Midlands -53 13 £55,000 +15.79% 21
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 26 (4.81%) Confluence
2 25 (4.63%) Apache
2 25 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.63%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.22%) Appian
3 12 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.74%) CMS
6 2 (0.37%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 48 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.37%) MS Visio
3 20 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 66 (12.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.04%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (1.67%) SAP SD
5 6 (1.11%) Elite 3E
5 6 (1.11%) SAP MDG
5 6 (1.11%) SAP PP
6 5 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.93%) SAP EWM
7 4 (0.74%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.74%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
7 4 (0.74%) SAP GTS
7 4 (0.74%) SAP IBP
7 4 (0.74%) SAP MDG-BP
7 4 (0.74%) SAP Travel Management
8 3 (0.56%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 103 (19.07%) Azure
2 73 (13.52%) Power Platform
3 57 (10.56%) AWS
4 48 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (8.52%) Dynamics 365
6 35 (6.48%) Power Automate
7 29 (5.37%) Amazon S3
8 28 (5.19%) SaaS
9 25 (4.63%) OpenShift
10 18 (3.33%) GCP
11 17 (3.15%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (2.22%) Anthropic Claude
14 12 (2.22%) Azure AI
15 8 (1.48%) Boomi
15 8 (1.48%) Snowflake
15 8 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
16 7 (1.30%) Asana
16 7 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.67%) VPN
2 6 (1.11%) HTTP
3 3 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.37%) GSM
4 2 (0.37%) LAN
4 2 (0.37%) LTE
4 2 (0.37%) WAN
5 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (11.85%) Power BI
2 30 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 28 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 27 (5.00%) Tableau
5 25 (4.63%) Apache Hive
5 25 (4.63%) Impala
5 25 (4.63%) Parquet
5 25 (4.63%) Spark SQL
6 12 (2.22%) Pinecone
7 11 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.85%) SAP HANA
9 8 (1.48%) SAP BW
10 7 (1.30%) MySQL
10 7 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (1.11%) Power Query
11 6 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.93%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 80 (14.81%) JIRA
2 30 (5.56%) Git
2 30 (5.56%) Selenium
3 25 (4.63%) IBM UrbanCode
4 21 (3.89%) Cypress.io
5 12 (2.22%) MLflow
5 12 (2.22%) Postman
6 5 (0.93%) REST Assured
6 5 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.74%) JUnit
7 4 (0.74%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.74%) TestRail
8 3 (0.56%) GitLab
8 3 (0.56%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.56%) Ranorex
8 3 (0.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.56%) TestNG
8 3 (0.56%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 224 (41.48%) Social Skills
2 221 (40.93%) Finance
3 168 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.85%) Banking
5 50 (9.26%) Law
6 46 (8.52%) Manufacturing
7 42 (7.78%) Legal
8 39 (7.22%) Retail
9 35 (6.48%) Investment Banking
10 27 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (4.81%) Public Sector
12 25 (4.63%) Marketing
13 15 (2.78%) Billing
13 15 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.67%) Games
17 8 (1.48%) Advertising
17 8 (1.48%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 215 (39.81%) Analyst
2 122 (22.59%) Business Analyst
3 70 (12.96%) Consultant
4 60 (11.11%) Lead
5 58 (10.74%) Senior
6 35 (6.48%) Technical Analyst
7 33 (6.11%) SAP Consultant
8 32 (5.93%) Senior Analyst
9 27 (5.00%) Transformation Analyst
10 26 (4.81%) Project Manager
11 25 (4.63%) Support Analyst
12 22 (4.07%) Banking Analyst
12 22 (4.07%) Test Leader
13 18 (3.33%) Senior Business Analyst
13 18 (3.33%) Systems Analyst
14 17 (3.15%) QA Leader
15 16 (2.96%) Automation Engineer
16 15 (2.78%) IT Analyst
16 15 (2.78%) Technical Manager
16 15 (2.78%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.00%) REST
2 25 (4.63%) Pandas
2 25 (4.63%) PySpark
3 22 (4.07%) Playwright
4 21 (3.89%) Middleware
5 17 (3.15%) RESTful
5 17 (3.15%) Web Services
6 15 (2.78%) OpenAPI
6 15 (2.78%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (2.78%) Swagger
7 13 (2.41%) Flask
7 13 (2.41%) SAP Fiori
8 12 (2.22%) FastAPI
8 12 (2.22%) Hugging Face
8 12 (2.22%) JWT
8 12 (2.22%) OAuth
8 12 (2.22%) pytest
8 12 (2.22%) PyTorch
8 12 (2.22%) scikit-learn
8 12 (2.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (7.41%) Onboarding
2 39 (7.22%) Legacy Systems
3 33 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.89%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.96%) Low-Code
7 15 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.78%) NHS
8 13 (2.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 11 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (2.04%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.67%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.67%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.11%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.93%) PMI
14 5 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.78%) Linux
1 15 (2.78%) Windows
2 6 (1.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.74%) Unix
4 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (36.30%) Agile
2 153 (28.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 151 (27.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 139 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
5 116 (21.48%) Requirements Gathering
6 111 (20.56%) Validation
7 101 (18.70%) Migration
8 91 (16.85%) Test Automation
9 82 (15.19%) ERP
9 82 (15.19%) System Integration Testing
10 80 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
11 78 (14.44%) User Stories
12 77 (14.26%) CI/CD
13 75 (13.89%) Workshop Facilitation
14 74 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 73 (13.52%) Translating Business Requirements
16 72 (13.33%) Business Analysis
16 72 (13.33%) DevOps
17 71 (13.15%) Change Management
18 68 (12.59%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 117 (21.67%) SQL
2 60 (11.11%) Python
3 29 (5.37%) C#
4 18 (3.33%) Java
5 17 (3.15%) JavaScript
6 15 (2.78%) ABAP
7 11 (2.04%) C++
8 6 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.93%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.74%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.74%) Rust
11 3 (0.56%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.56%) Perl
12 2 (0.37%) Go
12 2 (0.37%) VBA
13 1 (0.19%) C
13 1 (0.19%) PHP
13 1 (0.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (13.15%) Degree
2 26 (4.81%) PMI Certification
3 23 (4.26%) ISTQB
4 21 (3.89%) PMP
5 19 (3.52%) Security Cleared
6 14 (2.59%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.85%) IIBA
8 9 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.11%) CBAP
9 6 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.11%) ISEB
10 5 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.93%) SAP Certification
11 4 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.56%) CAPM
13 2 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (18.89%) QA
2 65 (12.04%) Data Quality
3 33 (6.11%) GDPR
4 27 (5.00%) Accessibility
5 17 (3.15%) PMO
6 15 (2.78%) HIPAA
7 13 (2.41%) SLA
8 12 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.11%) HL7
10 6 (1.11%) IFRS
11 5 (0.93%) GAAP
11 5 (0.93%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.93%) TickIT
12 4 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.56%) WCAG
14 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.37%) PSD2
15 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (3.70%) Docker
2 8 (1.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.74%) Firmware
3 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.67%) Terraform
3 7 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.37%) Grafana
6 1 (0.19%) Ansible
6 1 (0.19%) Control-M
Vendors
1 94 (17.41%) SAP
2 84 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 72 (13.33%) Oracle
4 26 (4.81%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.22%) Automation Anywhere
7 12 (2.22%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.22%) UiPath
8 11 (2.04%) Ariba
9 10 (1.85%) Intapp
10 8 (1.48%) OpenText
11 7 (1.30%) FIS
12 6 (1.11%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.11%) IFS
12 6 (1.11%) ION Trading
12 6 (1.11%) Workday
13 5 (0.93%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.93%) Databricks
14 4 (0.74%) Anaplan