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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 277 400
Rank change year-on-year +35 +123 -181
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 793 466 371
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 1.07% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% 1.21% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 546 282 211
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,947 £43,955
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +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 76,345 38,619 53,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.62% 89.01% 82.66%
Number of salaries quoted 53,555 21,921 28,813
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,681 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +22 287 £71,750 +10.38% 616
North of England +83 208 £55,000 +4.76% 136
North West +90 142 £55,000 +4.76% 74
South East -60 123 £45,000 +5.88% 158
Midlands -3 95 £45,000 -5.26% 101
West Midlands -3 69 £47,000 +1.62% 71
Yorkshire +1 50 £82,500 +46.67% 42
East of England -36 34 £45,025 -15.05% 50
South West -64 32 £55,000 -4.35% 62
East Midlands -29 26 £45,000 -18.18% 29
North East -51 16 £32,500 -20.73% 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 48 (6.05%) Confluence
2 27 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.88%) CMS
4 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.38%) IIS
6 3 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.25%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 58 (7.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.27%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.13%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 89 (11.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (3.53%) NetSuite
4 18 (2.27%) Dynamics AX
5 14 (1.77%) Workday HCM
6 9 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (1.13%) SAP SD
7 8 (1.01%) Dynamics NAV
7 8 (1.01%) Infor CloudSuite
7 8 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (1.01%) Sage 50
7 8 (1.01%) SAP CO
7 8 (1.01%) SAP FI
7 8 (1.01%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.88%) SAP GRC
9 6 (0.76%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
10 5 (0.63%) iTrent
10 5 (0.63%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 148 (18.66%) Azure
2 106 (13.37%) Dynamics 365
3 104 (13.11%) Power Platform
4 65 (8.20%) SaaS
5 63 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
6 59 (7.44%) AWS
7 37 (4.67%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (2.90%) PowerApps
9 16 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
10 15 (1.89%) GitHub
11 13 (1.64%) GCP
11 13 (1.64%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 8 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.88%) OCI
15 6 (0.76%) Boomi
15 6 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.50%) HTTP
2 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (0.25%) Intranet
2 2 (0.25%) SAN
2 2 (0.25%) VoIP
3 1 (0.13%) Broadband
3 1 (0.13%) FTP
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
3 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.09%) Power BI
2 21 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.51%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.39%) Metadata
6 9 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (1.13%) SAP BW
7 8 (1.01%) Oracle Database
7 8 (1.01%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.25%) Big Data
12 2 (0.25%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.25%) MySQL
12 2 (0.25%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 104 (13.11%) JIRA
2 30 (3.78%) Selenium
3 23 (2.90%) Git
4 18 (2.27%) GitLab
5 17 (2.14%) Postman
6 12 (1.51%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.51%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.88%) Gatling
8 7 (0.88%) Hudson
8 7 (0.88%) Zephyr
9 6 (0.76%) JMeter
9 6 (0.76%) JUnit
10 5 (0.63%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.38%) LSMW
12 3 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
13 2 (0.25%) Ranorex
General
1 369 (46.53%) Finance
2 361 (45.52%) Social Skills
3 230 (29.00%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (10.47%) Law
5 81 (10.21%) Manufacturing
6 56 (7.06%) Retail
7 54 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (6.43%) Public Sector
9 47 (5.93%) Legal
10 43 (5.42%) Documentation Skills
11 40 (5.04%) Organisational Skills
12 36 (4.54%) Banking
13 34 (4.29%) Marketing
14 27 (3.40%) General Ledger
15 24 (3.03%) Billing
16 17 (2.14%) Automotive
16 17 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (2.14%) Telecoms
17 15 (1.89%) Military
18 10 (1.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 229 (28.88%) Analyst
2 146 (18.41%) Consultant
3 125 (15.76%) Business Analyst
4 73 (9.21%) Senior
5 69 (8.70%) Lead
6 45 (5.67%) Support Analyst
7 39 (4.92%) Project Manager
8 38 (4.79%) Systems Analyst
9 34 (4.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 34 (4.29%) SAP Consultant
10 33 (4.16%) Functional Consultant
11 29 (3.66%) Developer
12 28 (3.53%) Tester
13 23 (2.90%) Applications Support
13 23 (2.90%) Applications Support Analyst
13 23 (2.90%) Architect
14 21 (2.65%) Senior Consultant
14 21 (2.65%) Systems Support
15 19 (2.40%) Junior
15 19 (2.40%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.04%) REST
2 26 (3.28%) Playwright
3 25 (3.15%) SAP Fiori
4 19 (2.40%) Middleware
5 17 (2.14%) SOAP
6 16 (2.02%) JSON
6 16 (2.02%) XML
7 12 (1.51%) .NET
7 12 (1.51%) Terraform
8 11 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.01%) HTML
10 7 (0.88%) ADO
10 7 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
10 7 (0.88%) React
11 6 (0.76%) CSS
11 6 (0.76%) EDI
11 6 (0.76%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.76%) SAP Core Interface
11 6 (0.76%) SAPUI5
11 6 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 68 (8.58%) Product Ownership
2 41 (5.17%) Management Information System
3 37 (4.67%) Onboarding
4 24 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.65%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.89%) Driving Licence
8 14 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.26%) FMCG
10 10 (1.26%) NHS
11 8 (1.01%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 7 (0.88%) CMDB
12 7 (0.88%) Life Science
12 7 (0.88%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.88%) SystemC
12 7 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.14%) Windows
2 13 (1.64%) Linux
3 5 (0.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.38%) VMS
5 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.13%) Android
6 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.13%) Unix
6 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (40.48%) Stakeholder Management
2 305 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 303 (38.21%) Problem-Solving
4 250 (31.53%) Agile
5 200 (25.22%) ERP
6 188 (23.71%) Requirements Gathering
7 173 (21.82%) Validation
8 160 (20.18%) Migration
9 153 (19.29%) Process Improvement
10 136 (17.15%) System Integration Testing
11 131 (16.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 125 (15.76%) Data Migration
13 118 (14.88%) Project Delivery
14 115 (14.50%) CRM
14 115 (14.50%) Translating Business Requirements
15 110 (13.87%) Business Analysis
16 107 (13.49%) DevOps
16 107 (13.49%) User Stories
17 102 (12.86%) Workshop Facilitation
18 91 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 135 (17.02%) SQL
2 29 (3.66%) Python
3 27 (3.40%) C#
4 24 (3.03%) ABAP
5 22 (2.77%) Java
6 20 (2.52%) JavaScript
7 16 (2.02%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.26%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.76%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.38%) C++
10 3 (0.38%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.38%) VBA
11 2 (0.25%) Bash
11 2 (0.25%) Perl
11 2 (0.25%) Scala
12 1 (0.13%) Ruby
12 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 110 (13.87%) Degree
2 52 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 43 (5.42%) SC Cleared
4 34 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.90%) ACCA
5 23 (2.90%) CIMA
6 19 (2.40%) PMI Certification
7 17 (2.14%) ISTQB
8 16 (2.02%) PMP
8 16 (2.02%) SAP Certification
9 10 (1.26%) ISEB
10 9 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.13%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.01%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 7 (0.88%) DV Cleared
12 7 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.63%) CISA
13 5 (0.63%) CISSP
13 5 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.50%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (17.53%) QA
2 79 (9.96%) Data Quality
3 62 (7.82%) GDPR
4 15 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (1.77%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.64%) SLA
7 9 (1.13%) PMO
8 7 (0.88%) GRC
9 6 (0.76%) GAAP
9 6 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.76%) WCAG
10 4 (0.50%) IFRS
11 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.25%) SOC 3
System Software
1 11 (1.39%) Docker
2 5 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) IAG
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (2.02%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.25%) Ansible
2 2 (0.25%) SCCM
3 1 (0.13%) Argo
3 1 (0.13%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 180 (22.70%) Microsoft
2 120 (15.13%) SAP
3 61 (7.69%) Oracle
4 44 (5.55%) Sage
5 40 (5.04%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.53%) ServiceNow
7 26 (3.28%) Workday
8 16 (2.02%) Civica
9 12 (1.51%) Concur
10 10 (1.26%) Infor
11 9 (1.13%) Google
11 9 (1.13%) Xero
12 8 (1.01%) Databricks
12 8 (1.01%) Intapp
13 7 (0.88%) Adobe
13 7 (0.88%) Ariba
13 7 (0.88%) iManage
13 7 (0.88%) OpenText
13 7 (0.88%) YouTube
14 6 (0.76%) ION Trading