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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 365 346
Rank change year-on-year +109 -19 -49
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 614 281 662
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.74% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.79% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 403 187 524
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,700 £35,075
25th Percentile £46,875 £46,250 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +0.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,875 £70,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £80,000
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 61,552 35,586 72,734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.01% 93.32% 83.95%
Number of salaries quoted 40,904 19,071 54,305
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +99 294 £67,500 -6.90% 169
North of England +35 132 £56,250 -13.46% 67
North West +17 65 £55,000 -16.98% 44
Midlands -19 61 £50,000 +5.26% 42
South East +2 50 £52,500 -8.70% 72
West Midlands -14 50 £50,000 +5.26% 24
Yorkshire -11 49 £82,500 +83.33% 20
East of England -19 32 £50,025 -5.61% 8
South West -50 28 £55,000 +1.32% 15
North East - 18 £41,500 - 3
East Midlands -32 11 £41,250 -41.07% 18
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 (5.05%) Confluence
2 25 (4.07%) Apache
2 25 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.07%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.42%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.47%) Appian
5 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.49%) CMS
6 3 (0.49%) IIS
7 2 (0.33%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 41 (6.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (5.21%) MS Visio
3 24 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 76 (12.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.79%) Dynamics AX
4 10 (1.63%) SAP SD
5 8 (1.30%) Elite 3E
5 8 (1.30%) Sage 50
6 7 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (1.14%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.98%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.81%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.81%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.65%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.65%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.65%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.65%) SAP GTS
9 4 (0.65%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.65%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.65%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 113 (18.40%) Azure
2 80 (13.03%) Power Platform
3 65 (10.59%) AWS
4 53 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (7.98%) Dynamics 365
6 35 (5.70%) Power Automate
7 34 (5.54%) SaaS
8 29 (4.72%) Amazon S3
9 28 (4.56%) PowerApps
10 26 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (4.07%) OpenShift
12 19 (3.09%) GCP
13 12 (1.95%) Boomi
14 10 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.47%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (1.47%) Azure AI
16 8 (1.30%) Azure AKS
16 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (1.30%) Snowflake
17 6 (0.98%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.14%) VPN
2 5 (0.81%) HTTP
3 2 (0.33%) Intranet
3 2 (0.33%) LAN
3 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.33%) VoIP
3 2 (0.33%) WAN
3 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) FTP
4 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.93%) Power BI
2 30 (4.89%) Oracle Database
3 28 (4.56%) Tableau
4 27 (4.40%) SQL Server
5 25 (4.07%) Apache Hive
5 25 (4.07%) Impala
5 25 (4.07%) Parquet
5 25 (4.07%) Spark SQL
6 11 (1.79%) SAP HANA
7 9 (1.47%) Pinecone
7 9 (1.47%) SAP BW
8 8 (1.30%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.98%) MySQL
9 6 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.98%) Power Query
9 6 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (0.81%) DB2
10 5 (0.81%) Metadata
10 5 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (13.84%) JIRA
2 33 (5.37%) Git
2 33 (5.37%) Selenium
3 25 (4.07%) IBM UrbanCode
4 23 (3.75%) Cypress.io
5 15 (2.44%) Postman
6 9 (1.47%) MLflow
7 6 (0.98%) GitLab
8 5 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 5 (0.81%) JUnit
8 5 (0.81%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
9 4 (0.65%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.65%) TestRail
10 3 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.49%) Gatling
10 3 (0.49%) Ranorex
10 3 (0.49%) TestNG
General
1 273 (44.46%) Finance
2 250 (40.72%) Social Skills
3 177 (28.83%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.07%) Law
5 63 (10.26%) Banking
6 57 (9.28%) Legal
7 48 (7.82%) Manufacturing
8 39 (6.35%) Retail
9 36 (5.86%) Investment Banking
10 35 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (4.72%) Public Sector
12 26 (4.23%) Marketing
13 21 (3.42%) Billing
14 16 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (1.47%) Games
19 8 (1.30%) Advertising
19 8 (1.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 206 (33.55%) Analyst
2 117 (19.06%) Business Analyst
3 105 (17.10%) Consultant
4 65 (10.59%) Lead
5 60 (9.77%) Senior
6 38 (6.19%) SAP Consultant
7 36 (5.86%) Technical Analyst
8 33 (5.37%) Project Manager
9 29 (4.72%) Senior Analyst
10 28 (4.56%) Transformation Analyst
11 23 (3.75%) Banking Analyst
12 22 (3.58%) Support Analyst
12 22 (3.58%) Systems Analyst
13 21 (3.42%) Test Leader
14 20 (3.26%) QA Leader
14 20 (3.26%) Transformation Manager
15 17 (2.77%) Developer
15 17 (2.77%) Functional Consultant
15 17 (2.77%) SAP Manager
16 16 (2.61%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.72%) REST
2 26 (4.23%) Playwright
3 25 (4.07%) PySpark
4 24 (3.91%) Middleware
5 22 (3.58%) Pandas
6 14 (2.28%) RESTful
6 14 (2.28%) Web Services
7 13 (2.12%) SAP Fiori
7 13 (2.12%) Swagger
8 12 (1.95%) OpenAPI
8 12 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
9 11 (1.79%) Flask
10 9 (1.47%) FastAPI
10 9 (1.47%) JWT
10 9 (1.47%) NumPy
10 9 (1.47%) OAuth
10 9 (1.47%) pytest
10 9 (1.47%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.47%) scikit-learn
10 9 (1.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.33%) Onboarding
2 43 (7.00%) Legacy Systems
3 38 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (2.93%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.77%) Data Structures
5 17 (2.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 14 (2.28%) Low-Code
7 14 (2.28%) NHS
8 11 (1.79%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.30%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.14%) CMDB
11 7 (1.14%) Derivative
12 6 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.44%) Windows
2 13 (2.12%) Linux
3 7 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.81%) Unix
5 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (33.55%) Agile
2 183 (29.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 181 (29.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 173 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (20.68%) Requirements Gathering
6 116 (18.89%) Migration
7 109 (17.75%) ERP
8 104 (16.94%) Validation
9 90 (14.66%) System Integration Testing
9 90 (14.66%) Test Automation
10 86 (14.01%) User Stories
11 80 (13.03%) CI/CD
11 80 (13.03%) Translating Business Requirements
12 79 (12.87%) DevOps
12 79 (12.87%) Workshop Facilitation
13 76 (12.38%) Business Intelligence
13 76 (12.38%) Process Improvement
14 72 (11.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 71 (11.56%) AI
16 69 (11.24%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 118 (19.22%) SQL
2 61 (9.93%) Python
3 34 (5.54%) C#
4 22 (3.58%) JavaScript
5 19 (3.09%) ABAP
5 19 (3.09%) Java
6 12 (1.95%) C++
7 8 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.81%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.65%) Rust
10 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.65%) VBA
11 3 (0.49%) Perl
12 2 (0.33%) Go
12 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.16%) C
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (12.70%) Degree
2 22 (3.58%) PMI Certification
2 22 (3.58%) Security Cleared
3 17 (2.77%) ISTQB
3 17 (2.77%) PMP
4 15 (2.44%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.63%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.14%) IIBA
7 7 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.98%) CBAP
8 6 (0.98%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.98%) SAP Certification
9 5 (0.81%) ISEB
9 5 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.65%) CCA
10 4 (0.65%) PhD
11 3 (0.49%) ACCA
11 3 (0.49%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (17.75%) QA
2 71 (11.56%) Data Quality
3 50 (8.14%) GDPR
4 32 (5.21%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.26%) PMO
6 15 (2.44%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.28%) SLA
8 12 (1.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 12 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.14%) IFRS
10 6 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.81%) GAAP
11 5 (0.81%) HL7
11 5 (0.81%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.81%) TickIT
11 5 (0.81%) WCAG
12 4 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.33%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.33%) PSD2
14 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (3.26%) Docker
2 8 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.65%) Firmware
3 4 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.44%) Terraform
3 3 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.33%) Ansible
4 2 (0.33%) Grafana
4 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 109 (17.75%) SAP
2 95 (15.47%) Microsoft
3 75 (12.21%) Oracle
4 26 (4.23%) Red Hat
4 26 (4.23%) Salesforce
4 26 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.12%) Intapp
6 10 (1.63%) Ariba
6 10 (1.63%) FIS
6 10 (1.63%) Sage
7 9 (1.47%) Automation Anywhere
7 9 (1.47%) ION Trading
7 9 (1.47%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.47%) OpenText
7 9 (1.47%) UiPath
8 8 (1.30%) Xero
9 7 (1.14%) IFS
9 7 (1.14%) iManage
9 7 (1.14%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.98%) HubSpot