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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 370 344
Rank change year-on-year +118 -26 -45
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 595 286 669
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 0.73% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.78% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 386 189 519
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,938 £46,250 £44,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £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 60,033 36,575 71,612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.81% 93.39% 85.14%
Number of salaries quoted 39,422 20,210 53,694
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.97%

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 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 16 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 +115 281 £67,500 -8.47% 147
North of England +38 123 £58,000 +0.77% 51
Midlands -10 64 £51,250 +5.67% 35
North West +21 57 £56,500 -19.29% 28
West Midlands -20 51 £50,000 +4.17% 20
South East +5 50 £55,000 -8.33% 69
Yorkshire -15 49 £85,000 +88.89% 20
East of England -5 31 £55,000 +3.77% 10
South West -37 29 £55,000 +4.76% 16
North East -24 17 £42,250 -15.50% 3
East Midlands -32 13 £55,000 -21.43% 15
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 19 (3.19%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.85%) Appian
5 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.67%) CMS
7 2 (0.34%) IIS
7 2 (0.34%) WordPress
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 44 (7.39%) 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 2 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 74 (12.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.85%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (1.51%) SAP SD
5 8 (1.34%) Elite 3E
6 7 (1.18%) SAP MDG
7 6 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (1.01%) Sage 50
7 6 (1.01%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.84%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.67%) SAP CO
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 IBP
9 4 (0.67%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.67%) SAP Travel Management
9 4 (0.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 109 (18.32%) Azure
2 80 (13.45%) Power Platform
3 61 (10.25%) AWS
4 51 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
5 50 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (6.22%) Power Automate
7 32 (5.38%) SaaS
8 29 (4.87%) Amazon S3
9 25 (4.20%) OpenShift
10 24 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (4.03%) PowerApps
11 18 (3.03%) GCP
12 14 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (1.85%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (1.85%) Azure AI
14 10 (1.68%) Boomi
15 9 (1.51%) SuccessFactors
16 8 (1.34%) Snowflake
17 7 (1.18%) Asana
17 7 (1.18%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.34%) VPN
2 5 (0.84%) HTTP
3 2 (0.34%) LAN
3 2 (0.34%) WAN
3 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.17%) Broadband
4 1 (0.17%) GSM
4 1 (0.17%) Intranet
4 1 (0.17%) LTE
4 1 (0.17%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (10.92%) Power BI
2 29 (4.87%) Oracle Database
2 29 (4.87%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.71%) Tableau
4 25 (4.20%) Apache Hive
4 25 (4.20%) Impala
4 25 (4.20%) Parquet
4 25 (4.20%) Spark SQL
5 11 (1.85%) Pinecone
5 11 (1.85%) SAP HANA
6 9 (1.51%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.51%) SAP BW
7 7 (1.18%) MySQL
8 6 (1.01%) Electronic Patient Records
8 6 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.01%) Power Query
8 6 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.84%) DB2
9 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 11 (1.85%) MLflow
7 5 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
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%) Jenkins
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
10 2 (0.34%) Eclipse
General
1 256 (43.03%) Finance
2 236 (39.66%) Social Skills
3 174 (29.24%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (11.09%) Banking
5 61 (10.25%) Law
6 51 (8.57%) Legal
7 48 (8.07%) Manufacturing
8 42 (7.06%) Retail
9 37 (6.22%) Investment Banking
10 34 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (4.54%) Marketing
11 27 (4.54%) Public Sector
12 18 (3.03%) Billing
13 16 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
15 11 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.51%) Games
17 8 (1.34%) Advertising
17 8 (1.34%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 211 (35.46%) Analyst
2 119 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 95 (15.97%) Consultant
4 64 (10.76%) Lead
5 60 (10.08%) Senior
6 36 (6.05%) SAP Consultant
6 36 (6.05%) Technical Analyst
7 31 (5.21%) Project Manager
7 31 (5.21%) Senior Analyst
8 27 (4.54%) Transformation Analyst
9 23 (3.87%) Banking Analyst
9 23 (3.87%) Systems Analyst
9 23 (3.87%) Test Leader
10 22 (3.70%) Support Analyst
11 20 (3.36%) Transformation Manager
12 19 (3.19%) QA Leader
13 17 (2.86%) Developer
14 16 (2.69%) SAP Manager
14 16 (2.69%) Senior Business Analyst
14 16 (2.69%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.87%) REST
2 25 (4.20%) PySpark
3 24 (4.03%) Pandas
4 23 (3.87%) Playwright
5 22 (3.70%) Middleware
6 16 (2.69%) RESTful
6 16 (2.69%) Web Services
7 15 (2.52%) Swagger
8 14 (2.35%) OpenAPI
9 13 (2.18%) Flask
9 13 (2.18%) SAP Fiori
10 12 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (1.85%) Django
11 11 (1.85%) FastAPI
11 11 (1.85%) JWT
11 11 (1.85%) NumPy
11 11 (1.85%) OAuth
11 11 (1.85%) pytest
11 11 (1.85%) scikit-learn
11 11 (1.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.73%) Onboarding
2 43 (7.23%) Legacy Systems
3 36 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 19 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 17 (2.86%) Low-Code
7 16 (2.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 15 (2.52%) NHS
9 13 (2.18%) Data Structures
10 11 (1.85%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.51%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 8 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.18%) Derivative
14 6 (1.01%) CMDB
15 5 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.69%) Windows
2 14 (2.35%) Linux
3 7 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.67%) 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
1 202 (33.95%) Agile
2 174 (29.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 166 (27.90%) Continuous Improvement
4 162 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (21.18%) Requirements Gathering
6 113 (18.99%) Migration
7 107 (17.98%) Validation
8 102 (17.14%) ERP
9 92 (15.46%) Test Automation
10 90 (15.13%) System Integration Testing
11 84 (14.12%) User Stories
12 82 (13.78%) Business Intelligence
12 82 (13.78%) Translating Business Requirements
13 81 (13.61%) Workshop Facilitation
14 78 (13.11%) CI/CD
15 74 (12.44%) DevOps
16 73 (12.27%) AI
16 73 (12.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 71 (11.93%) Business Analysis
17 71 (11.93%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (20.17%) SQL
2 64 (10.76%) Python
3 33 (5.55%) C#
4 21 (3.53%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.03%) Java
6 17 (2.86%) ABAP
7 12 (2.02%) C++
8 7 (1.18%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.84%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.67%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.67%) Rust
11 4 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.67%) VBA
12 3 (0.50%) Perl
13 2 (0.34%) Go
14 1 (0.17%) C
14 1 (0.17%) PHP
14 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (13.11%) Degree
2 25 (4.20%) PMI Certification
3 20 (3.36%) ISTQB
3 20 (3.36%) PMP
3 20 (3.36%) Security Cleared
4 12 (2.02%) SC Cleared
5 10 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.51%) IIBA
7 7 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.01%) CBAP
8 6 (1.01%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.01%) ISEB
8 6 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.84%) SAP Certification
10 4 (0.67%) CCA
10 4 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.50%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.50%) CAPM
11 3 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (17.98%) QA
2 72 (12.10%) Data Quality
3 42 (7.06%) GDPR
4 27 (4.54%) Accessibility
5 21 (3.53%) PMO
6 15 (2.52%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.52%) SLA
7 12 (2.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 11 (1.85%) 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 12 (2.02%) Terraform
3 5 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.34%) Grafana
4 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Control-M
Vendors
1 106 (17.82%) SAP
2 95 (15.97%) Microsoft
3 74 (12.44%) Oracle
4 26 (4.37%) Red Hat
5 24 (4.03%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.87%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.02%) Ariba
7 12 (2.02%) Intapp
8 11 (1.85%) Automation Anywhere
8 11 (1.85%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.85%) UiPath
9 10 (1.68%) FIS
10 9 (1.51%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.51%) OpenText
11 7 (1.18%) IFS
11 7 (1.18%) Sage
11 7 (1.18%) Workday
12 6 (1.01%) HubSpot
12 6 (1.01%) iManage
12 6 (1.01%) Xero