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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 368 367
Rank change year-on-year +103 -1 -109
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 641 309 620
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.75% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.82% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 431 201 474
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.09%
75th Percentile £76,875 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,750 £60,000 £54,648
% change year-on-year -0.42% +9.79% -0.64%

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 63,256 37,900 76,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.69% 91.38% 82.28%
Number of salaries quoted 44,700 21,237 54,996
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,889 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,926 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +92 280 £70,000 - 186
North of England +49 156 £55,000 - 63
North West +44 89 £55,000 +4.76% 40
Midlands -8 68 £50,000 -4.76% 43
South East +5 59 £45,000 -21.74% 80
West Midlands -6 52 £50,000 -4.76% 23
Yorkshire 0 50 £82,500 +50.00% 22
East of England -13 31 £45,050 -15.00% 14
South West -49 31 £55,000 -1.60% 17
North East - 17 £42,250 - 1
East Midlands -20 16 £70,000 - 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 36 (5.62%) Confluence
2 26 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.90%) Apache
3 25 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.90%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.78%) Appian
6 4 (0.62%) CMS
7 3 (0.47%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 42 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (4.99%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 84 (13.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.72%) NetSuite
4 10 (1.56%) SAP SD
5 9 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (1.25%) Elite 3E
6 8 (1.25%) Sage 50
7 7 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (1.09%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.78%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.78%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.78%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
10 4 (0.62%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 111 (17.32%) Azure
2 77 (12.01%) Power Platform
3 65 (10.14%) AWS
4 53 (8.27%) Dynamics 365
5 52 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (5.77%) SaaS
7 30 (4.68%) PowerApps
8 29 (4.52%) Power Automate
9 28 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
10 27 (4.21%) Amazon S3
11 25 (3.90%) OpenShift
12 21 (3.28%) GCP
13 12 (1.87%) Boomi
14 9 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
15 8 (1.25%) Azure AKS
15 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (1.25%) Snowflake
16 7 (1.09%) GitHub
17 6 (0.94%) Figma
17 6 (0.94%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.78%) HTTP
2 2 (0.31%) Intranet
2 2 (0.31%) LAN
2 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.31%) VoIP
2 2 (0.31%) WAN
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) FTP
3 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (9.36%) Power BI
2 30 (4.68%) Oracle Database
3 29 (4.52%) Tableau
4 25 (3.90%) Apache Hive
4 25 (3.90%) Impala
4 25 (3.90%) Parquet
4 25 (3.90%) Spark SQL
5 24 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.72%) SAP HANA
7 10 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.56%) SAP BW
8 8 (1.25%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.94%) Power Query
11 5 (0.78%) Pinecone
11 5 (0.78%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.62%) Db2
12 4 (0.62%) DB2 UDB
12 4 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 87 (13.57%) JIRA
2 35 (5.46%) Git
3 29 (4.52%) Selenium
4 25 (3.90%) IBM UrbanCode
5 19 (2.96%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.03%) Postman
7 8 (1.25%) GitLab
7 8 (1.25%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.94%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.78%) JUnit
9 5 (0.78%) MLflow
10 4 (0.62%) Gatling
10 4 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.62%) TestRail
11 3 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.47%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.47%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.47%) TestNG
General
1 298 (46.49%) Finance
2 262 (40.87%) Social Skills
3 196 (30.58%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.76%) Law
5 61 (9.52%) Banking
6 54 (8.42%) Legal
7 47 (7.33%) Manufacturing
8 38 (5.93%) Investment Banking
8 38 (5.93%) Public Sector
8 38 (5.93%) Retail
9 35 (5.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (4.06%) Marketing
11 20 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.96%) Billing
12 19 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.56%) Advertising
14 10 (1.56%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 207 (32.29%) Analyst
2 118 (18.41%) Business Analyst
3 105 (16.38%) Consultant
4 63 (9.83%) Lead
5 56 (8.74%) Senior
6 38 (5.93%) SAP Consultant
7 34 (5.30%) Project Manager
8 33 (5.15%) Support Analyst
9 29 (4.52%) Technical Analyst
10 26 (4.06%) Systems Analyst
11 24 (3.74%) Transformation Analyst
12 23 (3.59%) Banking Analyst
13 22 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
14 20 (3.12%) QA Leader
14 20 (3.12%) Systems Support
14 20 (3.12%) Test Leader
14 20 (3.12%) Transformation Manager
15 17 (2.65%) Developer
15 17 (2.65%) Functional Consultant
15 17 (2.65%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (4.06%) REST
2 25 (3.90%) Middleware
2 25 (3.90%) Playwright
2 25 (3.90%) PySpark
3 18 (2.81%) Pandas
4 14 (2.18%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (2.03%) SAP Fiori
6 10 (1.56%) RESTful
6 10 (1.56%) Web Services
6 10 (1.56%) XML
7 8 (1.25%) .NET
7 8 (1.25%) Swagger
8 7 (1.09%) Flask
8 7 (1.09%) React
8 7 (1.09%) SAP Core Interface
9 6 (0.94%) JSON
9 6 (0.94%) OpenAPI
10 5 (0.78%) FastAPI
10 5 (0.78%) Hugging Face
10 5 (0.78%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 42 (6.55%) Onboarding
3 41 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.59%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (2.81%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 12 (1.87%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.56%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.25%) Derivative
11 8 (1.25%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.09%) Blog
12 7 (1.09%) CMDB
12 7 (1.09%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.09%) NHS
13 6 (0.94%) Mobile App
14 5 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.34%) Windows
2 13 (2.03%) Linux
3 7 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.78%) Unix
5 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
5 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (33.23%) Agile
2 212 (33.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 190 (29.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 188 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (19.50%) ERP
6 122 (19.03%) Requirements Gathering
7 120 (18.72%) Migration
8 115 (17.94%) Validation
9 108 (16.85%) System Integration Testing
10 99 (15.44%) Process Improvement
11 90 (14.04%) User Stories
12 84 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 84 (13.10%) Translating Business Requirements
13 80 (12.48%) Test Automation
14 79 (12.32%) DevOps
15 75 (11.70%) CI/CD
16 74 (11.54%) Data Migration
16 74 (11.54%) Workshop Facilitation
17 73 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
18 70 (10.92%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 120 (18.72%) SQL
2 60 (9.36%) Python
3 31 (4.84%) C#
4 20 (3.12%) Java
4 20 (3.12%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.96%) ABAP
6 12 (1.87%) C++
7 9 (1.40%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.25%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.62%) Rust
11 4 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.47%) Perl
12 3 (0.47%) VBA
13 2 (0.31%) Go
13 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.16%) Bash
14 1 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 80 (12.48%) Degree
2 28 (4.37%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.28%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.81%) PMI Certification
5 14 (2.18%) PMP
6 12 (1.87%) ISTQB
7 11 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.56%) ACCA
8 10 (1.56%) CIMA
8 10 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.25%) SAP Certification
10 6 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.78%) CCA
11 5 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.62%) ISEB
12 4 (0.62%) PhD
12 4 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (17.16%) QA
2 71 (11.08%) Data Quality
3 51 (7.96%) GDPR
4 29 (4.52%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.12%) PMO
6 15 (2.34%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (2.18%) SLA
8 12 (1.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (1.09%) GAAP
9 7 (1.09%) IFRS
10 5 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.78%) TickIT
10 5 (0.78%) WCAG
11 4 (0.62%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.16%) HL7
13 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (2.65%) Docker
2 8 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Firmware
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.50%) Terraform
3 3 (0.47%) Ansible
4 2 (0.31%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 114 (17.78%) Microsoft
1 114 (17.78%) SAP
2 79 (12.32%) Oracle
3 30 (4.68%) ServiceNow
4 27 (4.21%) Salesforce
5 26 (4.06%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.18%) Sage
7 13 (2.03%) Intapp
8 11 (1.72%) Ariba
9 10 (1.56%) FIS
9 10 (1.56%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.40%) OpenText
11 8 (1.25%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.25%) Xero
12 7 (1.09%) Databricks
12 7 (1.09%) IFS
12 7 (1.09%) iManage
12 7 (1.09%) Workday
13 6 (0.94%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.78%) Automation Anywhere