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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 370 266
Rank change year-on-year +134 -104 +22
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 470 346 547
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.88% 0.72% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.79% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 273 180 454
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,750 £75,938
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,530 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% +4.55%

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 43,256 43,688 44,559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.00% 90.91% 89.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26,056 21,398 34,500
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
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 £79,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
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 16 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 16 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 +107 197 £62,500 -10.71% 79
South East +121 138 £42,500 -21.61% 111
Midlands +47 64 £42,500 -12.37% 56
West Midlands +35 43 £42,500 -15.00% 26
North of England -31 31 £53,750 -2.27% 67
East Midlands +1 21 £47,500 +46.15% 30
South West +10 18 £47,500 +15.15% 34
Yorkshire -2 16 £63,750 +96.24% 38
East of England +22 11 £55,000 +35.80% 42
North West -27 11 £37,000 -43.08% 20
North East +2 4 £41,000 -30.21% 9
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 19 (4.04%) Confluence
2 16 (3.40%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.40%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.40%) WebSphere Application Server
3 9 (1.91%) Appian
4 8 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.85%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Drupal
6 2 (0.43%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.34%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 84 (17.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.70%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.06%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.85%) Endur
6 4 (0.85%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.64%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.64%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.43%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 100 (21.28%) Power Platform
2 68 (14.47%) Azure
3 37 (7.87%) Dynamics 365
4 35 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (5.53%) SaaS
6 23 (4.89%) Power Automate
7 22 (4.68%) AWS
8 17 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.34%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.91%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.91%) Azure AI
10 9 (1.91%) Serverless
11 8 (1.70%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.70%) OCI
12 7 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.40%) SSL
2 13 (2.77%) VPN
3 4 (0.85%) DMZ
3 4 (0.85%) STUN
3 4 (0.85%) VLAN
3 4 (0.85%) VoIP
4 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.43%) GSM
5 2 (0.43%) 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 (9.15%) Power BI
2 33 (7.02%) SQL Server
3 19 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.62%) DB2
5 14 (2.98%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.55%) Metadata
7 9 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.91%) Pinecone
8 7 (1.49%) MySQL
8 7 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.64%) Data Mining
11 3 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.64%) Tableau
12 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (11.91%) JIRA
2 15 (3.19%) Selenium
3 11 (2.34%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.91%) MLflow
5 8 (1.70%) Postman
6 6 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.06%) Git
8 3 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.43%) GitLab
9 2 (0.43%) Grunt
9 2 (0.43%) gulp
9 2 (0.43%) Ranorex
9 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.43%) webpack
10 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.21%) JUnit
10 1 (0.21%) MSI
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 247 (52.55%) Finance
2 231 (49.15%) Social Skills
3 99 (21.06%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (19.15%) Manufacturing
5 76 (16.17%) Marketing
6 41 (8.72%) Banking
7 21 (4.47%) Law
7 21 (4.47%) Legal
8 19 (4.04%) Retail
9 15 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.77%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.34%) Public Sector
12 10 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.91%) Back Office
14 7 (1.49%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.28%) Advertising
16 5 (1.06%) Billing
Job Titles
1 224 (47.66%) Analyst
2 104 (22.13%) Senior
3 92 (19.57%) Senior Analyst
4 74 (15.74%) Business Analyst
5 61 (12.98%) SAP Analyst
6 49 (10.43%) Lead
7 42 (8.94%) Developer
8 35 (7.45%) Applications Support
9 29 (6.17%) Automation Developer
10 27 (5.74%) Consultant
11 25 (5.32%) Support Analyst
12 21 (4.47%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 20 (4.26%) Power Platform Developer
14 19 (4.04%) Test Leader
15 17 (3.62%) Senior Business Analyst
16 16 (3.40%) Automation Analyst
16 16 (3.40%) Systems Analyst
17 15 (3.19%) Infrastructure Support
17 15 (3.19%) Linux Support
17 15 (3.19%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.40%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.40%) LDAP
1 16 (3.40%) REST
1 16 (3.40%) WebSphere MQ
2 12 (2.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (2.34%) OpenAPI
3 11 (2.34%) RESTful
3 11 (2.34%) Swagger
4 10 (2.13%) Web Services
4 10 (2.13%) XML
5 9 (1.91%) Django
5 9 (1.91%) Faiss
5 9 (1.91%) FastAPI
5 9 (1.91%) Hugging Face
5 9 (1.91%) JSON
5 9 (1.91%) JWT
5 9 (1.91%) NumPy
5 9 (1.91%) OAuth
5 9 (1.91%) pytest
5 9 (1.91%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.79%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.89%) Linux Command Line
3 23 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.77%) NHS
6 11 (2.34%) Low-Code
7 7 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.28%) CMDB
8 6 (1.28%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.28%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.06%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.06%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.85%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.23%) Windows
2 32 (6.81%) Linux
3 17 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.40%) Unix
5 7 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.06%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.85%) Debian
8 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (37.45%) Agile
2 145 (30.85%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (20.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 91 (19.36%) Roadmaps
5 76 (16.17%) Translating Business Requirements
6 74 (15.74%) Logistics
7 70 (14.89%) Data Management
8 69 (14.68%) AI
9 65 (13.83%) Incident Management
10 64 (13.62%) Change Management
10 64 (13.62%) Validation
11 61 (12.98%) Impact Analysis
11 61 (12.98%) Test Automation
12 60 (12.77%) Business Analysis
12 60 (12.77%) Data Collection
12 60 (12.77%) ERP
12 60 (12.77%) Quality Management
13 59 (12.55%) Architectural Design
13 59 (12.55%) Requirements Gathering
13 59 (12.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 134 (28.51%) SQL
2 42 (8.94%) Python
3 21 (4.47%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.77%) C#
5 11 (2.34%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.85%) Java
7 3 (0.64%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.64%) VBA
8 2 (0.43%) Bash
9 1 (0.21%) Go
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 77 (16.38%) Degree
2 29 (6.17%) ISTQB
3 19 (4.04%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.40%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (2.55%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.34%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (1.70%) PMP
7 8 (1.70%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.49%) IIBA
9 6 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.28%) ISEB
10 5 (1.06%) CBAP
10 5 (1.06%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.43%) CAPM
13 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (13.62%) QA
2 29 (6.17%) Data Quality
3 28 (5.96%) SLA
4 11 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.28%) HL7
7 5 (1.06%) GDPR
8 4 (0.85%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.64%) PMO
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.43%) PSD2
11 1 (0.21%) EMIR
11 1 (0.21%) FATCA
11 1 (0.21%) GAAP
11 1 (0.21%) IFRS
11 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.21%) MiFID
11 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (2.34%) Docker
2 4 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.85%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 13 (2.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) 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
1 108 (22.98%) Microsoft
2 103 (21.91%) SAP
3 45 (9.57%) Blue Prism
4 39 (8.30%) Oracle
5 18 (3.83%) IBM
5 18 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.62%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.91%) Automation Anywhere
8 9 (1.91%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.91%) UiPath
9 7 (1.49%) Workday
10 5 (1.06%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.85%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.85%) Ariba
11 4 (0.85%) Databricks
12 3 (0.64%) Apple
12 3 (0.64%) Concur
12 3 (0.64%) HP
12 3 (0.64%) VMware