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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 255 377 339
Rank change year-on-year +122 -38 -46
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 595 282 657
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.72% 0.72% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.77% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 389 189 518
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,800 £36,175
25th Percentile £47,750 £46,250 £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,000 £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 60,622 36,670 71,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.76% 93.39% 84.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,997 20,119 53,763
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £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 £73,410
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% -10.10%

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 21 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 21 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 +105 283 £67,500 -6.90% 125
North of England +34 125 £57,500 - 48
North West +24 60 £55,000 -16.98% 33
Midlands -16 60 £50,000 -3.38% 36
South East +2 50 £55,000 -2.22% 61
Yorkshire -3 48 £83,750 +86.11% 13
West Midlands -25 48 £50,000 +4.17% 24
East of England -3 32 £50,025 -5.61% 7
South West -47 28 £55,000 +4.76% 15
North East -24 17 £42,250 -15.50% 2
East Midlands -26 12 £52,500 -25.00% 12
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 30 (5.04%) Confluence
2 25 (4.20%) Apache
2 25 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 20 (3.36%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.68%) Appian
5 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.50%) CMS
6 3 (0.50%) IIS
7 2 (0.34%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 43 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (5.04%) MS Visio
3 23 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.34%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 75 (12.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.85%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (1.51%) SAP SD
5 8 (1.34%) Elite 3E
6 7 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (1.18%) SAP MDG
7 6 (1.01%) Sage 50
7 6 (1.01%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.84%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.67%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.67%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.67%) SAP GTS
9 4 (0.67%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.67%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.67%) SAP Travel Management
9 4 (0.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 107 (17.98%) Azure
2 78 (13.11%) Power Platform
3 63 (10.59%) AWS
4 50 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (8.07%) Dynamics 365
6 36 (6.05%) Power Automate
7 32 (5.38%) SaaS
8 29 (4.87%) Amazon S3
9 26 (4.37%) PowerApps
10 25 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
10 25 (4.20%) OpenShift
11 19 (3.19%) GCP
12 12 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.85%) Boomi
14 10 (1.68%) Anthropic Claude
14 10 (1.68%) Azure AI
15 9 (1.51%) SuccessFactors
16 8 (1.34%) Snowflake
17 7 (1.18%) Azure AKS
17 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.34%) VPN
2 5 (0.84%) HTTP
3 2 (0.34%) Intranet
3 2 (0.34%) LAN
3 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.34%) VoIP
3 2 (0.34%) WAN
3 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.17%) Broadband
4 1 (0.17%) FTP
4 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.25%) Power BI
2 30 (5.04%) Oracle Database
3 29 (4.87%) SQL Server
4 28 (4.71%) Tableau
5 25 (4.20%) Apache Hive
5 25 (4.20%) Impala
5 25 (4.20%) Parquet
5 25 (4.20%) Spark SQL
6 11 (1.85%) SAP HANA
7 10 (1.68%) Pinecone
8 9 (1.51%) SAP BW
9 8 (1.34%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.18%) MySQL
11 6 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
11 6 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.01%) Power Query
11 6 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.84%) DB2
12 5 (0.84%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 85 (14.29%) JIRA
2 30 (5.04%) Git
2 30 (5.04%) Selenium
3 25 (4.20%) IBM UrbanCode
4 22 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 12 (2.02%) Postman
6 10 (1.68%) MLflow
7 5 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.67%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.67%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.67%) SpecFlow
8 4 (0.67%) TestRail
9 3 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.50%) GitLab
9 3 (0.50%) JUnit
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
9 3 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.50%) Ranorex
9 3 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.50%) TestNG
General
1 257 (43.19%) Finance
2 238 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 171 (28.74%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (10.76%) Banking
5 62 (10.42%) Law
6 53 (8.91%) Legal
7 48 (8.07%) Manufacturing
8 40 (6.72%) Retail
9 36 (6.05%) Investment Banking
10 34 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (4.37%) Marketing
11 26 (4.37%) Public Sector
12 18 (3.03%) Billing
13 16 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.51%) Games
18 8 (1.34%) Advertising
18 8 (1.34%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 204 (34.29%) Analyst
2 116 (19.50%) Business Analyst
3 97 (16.30%) Consultant
4 65 (10.92%) Lead
5 57 (9.58%) Senior
6 37 (6.22%) SAP Consultant
7 36 (6.05%) Technical Analyst
8 32 (5.38%) Project Manager
9 30 (5.04%) Senior Analyst
10 28 (4.71%) Transformation Analyst
11 23 (3.87%) Banking Analyst
11 23 (3.87%) Test Leader
12 22 (3.70%) Systems Analyst
13 20 (3.36%) Support Analyst
13 20 (3.36%) Transformation Manager
14 19 (3.19%) QA Leader
15 17 (2.86%) Developer
16 16 (2.69%) SAP Manager
16 16 (2.69%) Technical Manager
17 15 (2.52%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.87%) REST
2 25 (4.20%) PySpark
3 23 (3.87%) Middleware
3 23 (3.87%) Pandas
3 23 (3.87%) Playwright
4 15 (2.52%) RESTful
4 15 (2.52%) Web Services
5 14 (2.35%) Swagger
6 13 (2.18%) OpenAPI
6 13 (2.18%) SAP Fiori
7 12 (2.02%) Flask
8 11 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (1.68%) Django
9 10 (1.68%) FastAPI
9 10 (1.68%) JSON
9 10 (1.68%) NumPy
9 10 (1.68%) OAuth
9 10 (1.68%) pytest
9 10 (1.68%) scikit-learn
9 10 (1.68%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.56%) Onboarding
2 42 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
3 35 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (2.69%) Low-Code
7 15 (2.52%) NHS
7 15 (2.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 14 (2.35%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.85%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.51%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.34%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.18%) Derivative
12 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
13 6 (1.01%) CMDB
14 5 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.86%) Windows
2 14 (2.35%) Linux
3 8 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.84%) Unix
5 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.17%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (33.45%) Agile
2 176 (29.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 167 (28.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 163 (27.39%) Problem-Solving
5 124 (20.84%) Requirements Gathering
6 112 (18.82%) Migration
7 104 (17.48%) Validation
8 101 (16.97%) ERP
9 90 (15.13%) Test Automation
10 89 (14.96%) System Integration Testing
11 85 (14.29%) User Stories
12 81 (13.61%) Translating Business Requirements
13 79 (13.28%) CI/CD
13 79 (13.28%) Workshop Facilitation
14 77 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
15 74 (12.44%) DevOps
16 72 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 71 (11.93%) AI
17 71 (11.93%) Process Improvement
18 69 (11.60%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 119 (20.00%) SQL
2 63 (10.59%) Python
3 34 (5.71%) C#
4 22 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.03%) ABAP
5 18 (3.03%) Java
6 12 (2.02%) C++
7 8 (1.34%) TypeScript
8 6 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.84%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.67%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.67%) Rust
10 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.67%) VBA
11 3 (0.50%) Perl
12 2 (0.34%) Go
12 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.17%) C
13 1 (0.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 77 (12.94%) Degree
2 24 (4.03%) PMI Certification
3 20 (3.36%) Security Cleared
4 19 (3.19%) ISTQB
4 19 (3.19%) PMP
5 12 (2.02%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.68%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.34%) IIBA
9 7 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.01%) CBAP
10 6 (1.01%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.84%) ISEB
11 5 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.84%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.67%) CCA
12 4 (0.67%) PhD
13 3 (0.50%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.50%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (18.15%) QA
2 71 (11.93%) Data Quality
3 46 (7.73%) GDPR
4 27 (4.54%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.36%) PMO
6 15 (2.52%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.35%) SLA
8 12 (2.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 12 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.18%) IFRS
10 6 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.01%) HL7
11 5 (0.84%) GAAP
11 5 (0.84%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.84%) TickIT
12 4 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.50%) WCAG
14 2 (0.34%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.34%) PSD2
15 1 (0.17%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (3.19%) Docker
2 10 (1.68%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.67%) Firmware
3 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.35%) Terraform
3 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.34%) Ansible
4 2 (0.34%) Grafana
4 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 107 (17.98%) SAP
2 93 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 74 (12.44%) Oracle
4 26 (4.37%) Red Hat
5 25 (4.20%) ServiceNow
6 24 (4.03%) Salesforce
7 13 (2.18%) Intapp
8 12 (2.02%) Ariba
9 10 (1.68%) Automation Anywhere
9 10 (1.68%) FIS
9 10 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.68%) UiPath
10 9 (1.51%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.51%) OpenText
11 8 (1.34%) Sage
12 7 (1.18%) IFS
12 7 (1.18%) iManage
12 7 (1.18%) Workday
13 6 (1.01%) HubSpot
13 6 (1.01%) MuleSoft