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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 386 224
Rank change year-on-year +136 -162 +59
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 469 364 732
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.02% 0.60% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.72% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 268 196 509
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,063 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Process and 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 39,655 50,810 44,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.21% 83.46% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,334 26,537 33,959
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,905 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +91 184 £65,000 -10.34% 217
South East +111 139 £42,500 -17.28% 94
Midlands +68 66 £42,500 -15.00% 40
West Midlands +47 41 £42,500 -18.89% 22
North of England +3 35 £52,500 -5.41% 44
East Midlands +34 25 £40,000 +23.08% 18
North West +4 19 £43,250 -28.51% 28
East of England +33 18 £51,250 +31.41% 16
South West +20 16 £57,500 +35.29% 19
Yorkshire +13 14 £56,250 +60.71% 11
North East +5 2 £41,000 -34.40% 5
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 31 (6.61%) Confluence
2 16 (3.41%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.41%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.41%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.64%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.43%) Drupal
5 2 (0.43%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.21%) Appian
6 1 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.21%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 33 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.35%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 86 (18.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (3.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.49%) Oracle Cash Management
3 7 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (1.28%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.28%) NetSuite
5 5 (1.07%) Elite 3E
5 5 (1.07%) Endur
5 5 (1.07%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (1.07%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.64%) iTrent
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.64%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.64%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.64%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 99 (21.11%) Power Platform
2 61 (13.01%) Azure
3 46 (9.81%) Dynamics 365
4 42 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (5.54%) AWS
6 24 (5.12%) Power Automate
7 15 (3.20%) SaaS
8 12 (2.56%) OCI
8 12 (2.56%) PowerApps
9 8 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (1.71%) Serverless
10 7 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (1.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (1.28%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.28%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.28%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.41%) SSL
2 6 (1.28%) VPN
3 5 (1.07%) DMZ
3 5 (1.07%) STUN
3 5 (1.07%) VLAN
3 5 (1.07%) VoIP
4 3 (0.64%) Firewall
4 3 (0.64%) Network Security
5 1 (0.21%) GSM
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.21%) LTE
5 1 (0.21%) RFID
5 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.82%) Power BI
2 20 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.41%) DB2
5 12 (2.56%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.35%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (2.13%) Metadata
8 9 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.07%) Tableau
11 4 (0.85%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.85%) KDB
11 4 (0.85%) Kdb+
12 3 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.43%) MySQL
13 2 (0.43%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 67 (14.29%) JIRA
2 6 (1.28%) Selenium
3 5 (1.07%) Git
4 4 (0.85%) Postman
5 3 (0.64%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.64%) eCATT
5 3 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.43%) GitLab
6 2 (0.43%) Grunt
6 2 (0.43%) gulp
6 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.43%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (0.43%) webpack
6 2 (0.43%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.21%) Appium
7 1 (0.21%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 263 (56.08%) Finance
2 236 (50.32%) Social Skills
3 105 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (20.90%) Marketing
5 88 (18.76%) Manufacturing
6 35 (7.46%) Banking
7 34 (7.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (7.04%) Law
8 33 (7.04%) Legal
9 27 (5.76%) Retail
10 21 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.77%) Public Sector
13 11 (2.35%) Back Office
13 11 (2.35%) Investment Banking
14 10 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (1.28%) General Ledger
16 5 (1.07%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.07%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 218 (46.48%) Analyst
2 100 (21.32%) Senior
3 78 (16.63%) Senior Analyst
4 70 (14.93%) Business Analyst
5 63 (13.43%) SAP Analyst
6 48 (10.23%) Lead
7 44 (9.38%) Developer
8 37 (7.89%) Applications Support
9 33 (7.04%) Consultant
10 29 (6.18%) Automation Developer
11 24 (5.12%) Systems Analyst
12 21 (4.48%) Functional Consultant
12 21 (4.48%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
12 21 (4.48%) Support Analyst
13 20 (4.26%) Power Platform Developer
14 19 (4.05%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 18 (3.84%) Test Leader
16 17 (3.62%) Test Manager
17 16 (3.41%) Automation Analyst
17 16 (3.41%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.41%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.41%) LDAP
1 16 (3.41%) WebSphere MQ
2 14 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (2.13%) .NET
3 10 (2.13%) XML
4 9 (1.92%) HTML
5 8 (1.71%) CSS
6 7 (1.49%) EDI
7 6 (1.28%) JSON
7 6 (1.28%) REST
8 5 (1.07%) ADO
8 5 (1.07%) FreeSWITCH
8 5 (1.07%) Middleware
8 5 (1.07%) Playwright
9 3 (0.64%) RESTful
9 3 (0.64%) Web Services
10 2 (0.43%) CSS3
10 2 (0.43%) HTML5
10 2 (0.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.87%) Greenfield Project
2 37 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 30 (6.40%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.84%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.62%) Linux Command Line
6 14 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.49%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.49%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.07%) CMDB
10 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.85%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.85%) NHS
11 4 (0.85%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.85%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.64%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.46%) Windows
2 29 (6.18%) Linux
3 16 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (3.41%) Unix
4 6 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.07%) Debian
5 5 (1.07%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (43.28%) Agile
2 147 (31.34%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (18.12%) Roadmaps
4 83 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 79 (16.84%) Translating Business Requirements
6 74 (15.78%) Data Management
7 72 (15.35%) ERP
8 68 (14.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (14.50%) Logistics
9 64 (13.65%) Migration
10 62 (13.22%) Data Collection
10 62 (13.22%) Impact Analysis
10 62 (13.22%) Incident Management
11 61 (13.01%) Change Management
12 60 (12.79%) Quality Management
13 59 (12.58%) Architectural Design
14 58 (12.37%) Technical Leadership
15 57 (12.15%) Business Analysis
15 57 (12.15%) Decision Quality
15 57 (12.15%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 122 (26.01%) SQL
2 40 (8.53%) Python
3 16 (3.41%) JavaScript
4 14 (2.99%) T-SQL
5 13 (2.77%) C#
6 6 (1.28%) Java
7 5 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (0.85%) C
8 4 (0.85%) C++
9 3 (0.64%) PHP
9 3 (0.64%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.43%) X++
11 1 (0.21%) Bash
11 1 (0.21%) R
11 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (17.27%) Degree
2 22 (4.69%) ISTQB
3 19 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.62%) AWS Certification
5 16 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (1.71%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.71%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.49%) ACCA
7 7 (1.49%) CIMA
8 6 (1.28%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.07%) ISEB
9 5 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.85%) GISP
11 3 (0.64%) CBAP
11 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.43%) CFA
12 2 (0.43%) IIBA
12 2 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (12.58%) QA
2 29 (6.18%) SLA
3 19 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.35%) GDPR
5 6 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.07%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.64%) MiFID
9 2 (0.43%) EMIR
9 2 (0.43%) PMO
9 2 (0.43%) UCITS
10 1 (0.21%) IFRS
10 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (1.07%) Kamailio
2 4 (0.85%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.28%) Terraform
3 2 (0.43%) Grafana
3 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.43%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
4 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.21%) Puppet
4 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 119 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 106 (22.60%) SAP
3 45 (9.59%) Blue Prism
4 38 (8.10%) Oracle
5 22 (4.69%) Salesforce
6 20 (4.26%) IBM
6 20 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.41%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.07%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.07%) Databricks
8 5 (1.07%) iManage
9 4 (0.85%) Workday
10 3 (0.64%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.64%) DocuSign
10 3 (0.64%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.64%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.43%) Ariba
11 2 (0.43%) FFastFill
11 2 (0.43%) Google
11 2 (0.43%) Infor