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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 281 399
Rank change year-on-year +34 +118 -173
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 752 451 405
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 1.05% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.18% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 538 260 242
10th Percentile £32,275 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,219 £41,250 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £59,350
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -7.33% +3.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £82,450
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year +0.91% -6.30% +2.09%

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 73,754 38,333 56,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.28% 88.82% 81.58%
Number of salaries quoted 52,343 22,038 32,065
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 September 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 September 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 +42 294 £70,000 +7.69% 650
North of England +77 205 £55,000 +4.76% 143
North West +82 132 £55,000 +10.00% 96
South East -70 104 £45,000 +5.88% 162
Midlands +4 86 £47,000 -10.48% 98
West Midlands -1 67 £47,000 -1.05% 70
Yorkshire +11 57 £83,750 +52.27% 27
South West -64 28 £55,500 -3.48% 43
East of England -43 22 £45,050 -15.00% 45
East Midlands -35 19 £47,500 -17.39% 28
North East -49 16 £41,500 +1.22% 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 47 (6.25%) Confluence
2 27 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.66%) CMS
5 3 (0.40%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.13%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 53 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.93%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 93 (12.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (4.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 27 (3.59%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.46%) SAP SD
5 10 (1.33%) Workday HCM
6 9 (1.20%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (1.06%) Sage 50
7 8 (1.06%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.93%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.93%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.93%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.80%) Elite 3E
9 6 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
10 5 (0.66%) SAP GRC
11 4 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.53%) SAP GTS
11 4 (0.53%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 145 (19.28%) Azure
2 105 (13.96%) Power Platform
3 92 (12.23%) Dynamics 365
4 63 (8.38%) AWS
5 61 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (8.11%) SaaS
6 35 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (3.72%) PowerApps
8 19 (2.53%) GCP
8 19 (2.53%) Power Automate
9 14 (1.86%) GitHub
10 12 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (1.46%) Boomi
11 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (0.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (0.93%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (0.80%) Azure AKS
13 6 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 5 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.66%) HTTP
2 2 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (0.27%) Intranet
2 2 (0.27%) SAN
2 2 (0.27%) 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 81 (10.77%) Power BI
2 18 (2.39%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.46%) Relational Database
4 11 (1.46%) SAP BW
5 10 (1.33%) Metadata
5 10 (1.33%) SAP HANA
6 8 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.80%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.40%) DTS
10 3 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.40%) Power Query
10 3 (0.40%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.27%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 100 (13.30%) JIRA
2 31 (4.12%) Selenium
3 24 (3.19%) Git
4 20 (2.66%) Postman
5 17 (2.26%) GitLab
6 13 (1.73%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.73%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.60%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.06%) Gatling
8 8 (1.06%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.93%) Hudson
9 7 (0.93%) JMeter
9 7 (0.93%) JUnit
10 5 (0.66%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.66%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.53%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.53%) TestRail
12 3 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 351 (46.68%) Finance
2 342 (45.48%) Social Skills
3 219 (29.12%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (11.97%) Law
5 65 (8.64%) Manufacturing
6 53 (7.05%) Legal
7 49 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (6.12%) Retail
9 45 (5.98%) Public Sector
10 35 (4.65%) Marketing
11 34 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
12 33 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
13 32 (4.26%) Banking
14 25 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (2.79%) Billing
16 17 (2.26%) General Ledger
17 16 (2.13%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.99%) Military
19 12 (1.60%) Aerospace
19 12 (1.60%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 212 (28.19%) Analyst
2 132 (17.55%) Consultant
3 121 (16.09%) Business Analyst
4 66 (8.78%) Lead
5 61 (8.11%) Senior
6 41 (5.45%) SAP Consultant
6 41 (5.45%) Support Analyst
7 37 (4.92%) Project Manager
8 33 (4.39%) Systems Analyst
9 30 (3.99%) Tester
10 29 (3.86%) Functional Consultant
11 23 (3.06%) Architect
11 23 (3.06%) Developer
11 23 (3.06%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
12 22 (2.93%) Systems Support
13 21 (2.79%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
14 20 (2.66%) Applications Support
14 20 (2.66%) Applications Support Analyst
14 20 (2.66%) Product Owner
14 20 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.26%) REST
2 29 (3.86%) Playwright
3 25 (3.32%) Middleware
4 24 (3.19%) SAP Fiori
5 18 (2.39%) JSON
6 17 (2.26%) XML
7 14 (1.86%) SOAP
7 14 (1.86%) Terraform
8 10 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.06%) .NET
9 8 (1.06%) SAP Core Interface
10 7 (0.93%) ADO
10 7 (0.93%) HTML
10 7 (0.93%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (0.80%) React
12 5 (0.66%) AngularJS
12 5 (0.66%) CSS
12 5 (0.66%) EDI
12 5 (0.66%) SAPUI5
12 5 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.91%) Product Ownership
2 40 (5.32%) Onboarding
3 33 (4.39%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.79%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (1.99%) Driving Licence
9 14 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.46%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (1.06%) NHS
14 7 (0.93%) CMDB
14 7 (0.93%) Derivative
14 7 (0.93%) e-Learning
14 7 (0.93%) Replication
14 7 (0.93%) SystemC
15 6 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.39%) Windows
2 13 (1.73%) Linux
3 4 (0.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.13%) Unix
5 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (37.23%) Continuous Improvement
2 277 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 274 (36.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 235 (31.25%) Agile
5 184 (24.47%) ERP
6 162 (21.54%) Requirements Gathering
6 162 (21.54%) Validation
7 153 (20.35%) Migration
8 135 (17.95%) Process Improvement
9 133 (17.69%) System Integration Testing
10 116 (15.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 113 (15.03%) Data Migration
12 112 (14.89%) CRM
12 112 (14.89%) Project Delivery
13 106 (14.10%) Business Analysis
13 106 (14.10%) User Stories
14 105 (13.96%) Translating Business Requirements
15 104 (13.83%) DevOps
16 99 (13.16%) Workshop Facilitation
17 93 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 124 (16.49%) SQL
2 29 (3.86%) C#
3 28 (3.72%) Python
4 24 (3.19%) ABAP
4 24 (3.19%) Java
4 24 (3.19%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.46%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.80%) Apex Code
8 5 (0.66%) C++
9 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 4 (0.53%) T-SQL
10 3 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.40%) Perl
10 3 (0.40%) VBA
11 2 (0.27%) Scala
12 1 (0.13%) C
12 1 (0.13%) PHP
12 1 (0.13%) Ruby
12 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (12.10%) Degree
2 51 (6.78%) Security Cleared
3 42 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 22 (2.93%) PMI Certification
5 19 (2.53%) ISTQB
6 17 (2.26%) ACCA
6 17 (2.26%) CIMA
6 17 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.26%) PMP
7 14 (1.86%) SAP Certification
8 10 (1.33%) ISEB
9 9 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.80%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.53%) CCA
14 4 (0.53%) CISA
14 4 (0.53%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (17.82%) QA
2 67 (8.91%) Data Quality
3 59 (7.85%) GDPR
4 17 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.26%) PMO
4 17 (2.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.73%) SLA
6 7 (0.93%) GAAP
6 7 (0.93%) WCAG
7 5 (0.66%) GRC
7 5 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.66%) TickIT
8 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.40%) IFRS
9 3 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.27%) GxP
10 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (1.60%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) IAG
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (2.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.27%) Ansible
3 1 (0.13%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 162 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 126 (16.76%) SAP
3 54 (7.18%) Oracle
4 41 (5.45%) Sage
5 40 (5.32%) Salesforce
6 26 (3.46%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.66%) Workday
8 15 (1.99%) Civica
9 11 (1.46%) Intapp
10 10 (1.33%) Ariba
10 10 (1.33%) FIS
11 9 (1.20%) Concur
11 9 (1.20%) ION Trading
11 9 (1.20%) OpenText
11 9 (1.20%) Xero
12 7 (0.93%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.80%) Databricks
13 6 (0.80%) Google
13 6 (0.80%) iManage
13 6 (0.80%) Pega