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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 369 370
Rank change year-on-year +106 +1 -107
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 646 319 613
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.75% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.83% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 437 206 469
10th Percentile £34,750 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +9.09% -0.27%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,375 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,250 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.92% +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 63,989 38,586 74,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 90.92% 82.33%
Number of salaries quoted 45,232 21,845 54,026
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,898 £29,629
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,679 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,346
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +94 284 £70,000 - 173
North of England +53 156 £55,000 - 59
North West +44 90 £55,000 +4.76% 37
Midlands -2 68 £50,000 -4.76% 45
South East +7 62 £45,000 -21.74% 79
West Midlands -1 52 £50,000 -4.76% 22
Yorkshire +11 49 £82,500 +50.00% 20
East of England -17 30 £45,050 -15.00% 10
South West -53 30 £55,000 -3.14% 13
North East - 17 £42,250 - 2
East Midlands -24 16 £70,000 - 23
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 36 (5.57%) Confluence
2 26 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.87%) Apache
3 25 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.87%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.62%) Appian
5 4 (0.62%) CMS
6 3 (0.46%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 44 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (5.26%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
7 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 87 (13.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (2.01%) NetSuite
4 10 (1.55%) SAP SD
5 9 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (1.24%) Elite 3E
6 8 (1.24%) Sage 50
7 7 (1.08%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (1.08%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
9 5 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.77%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.77%) SAP CO
9 5 (0.77%) SAP FI
9 5 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
9 5 (0.77%) SAP MM
9 5 (0.77%) SAP PP
9 5 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 109 (16.87%) Azure
2 79 (12.23%) Power Platform
3 65 (10.06%) AWS
4 53 (8.20%) Dynamics 365
5 50 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (5.73%) SaaS
7 30 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (4.64%) PowerApps
8 27 (4.18%) Amazon S3
8 27 (4.18%) Power Automate
9 25 (3.87%) OpenShift
10 21 (3.25%) GCP
11 13 (2.01%) Boomi
12 10 (1.55%) SuccessFactors
13 8 (1.24%) Azure AKS
13 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.24%) Snowflake
14 7 (1.08%) GitHub
15 6 (0.93%) Lucidchart
15 6 (0.93%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) HTTP
2 2 (0.31%) Intranet
2 2 (0.31%) LAN
2 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.31%) VoIP
2 2 (0.31%) WAN
3 1 (0.15%) Broadband
3 1 (0.15%) FTP
3 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (9.60%) Power BI
2 30 (4.64%) Oracle Database
3 29 (4.49%) Tableau
4 25 (3.87%) Apache Hive
4 25 (3.87%) Impala
4 25 (3.87%) Parquet
4 25 (3.87%) Spark SQL
5 23 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 11 (1.70%) SAP HANA
7 10 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.55%) SAP BW
8 8 (1.24%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.93%) Power Query
10 5 (0.77%) Star Schema
11 4 (0.62%) Db2
11 4 (0.62%) DB2 UDB
11 4 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.62%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 86 (13.31%) JIRA
2 36 (5.57%) Git
3 28 (4.33%) Selenium
4 25 (3.87%) IBM UrbanCode
5 18 (2.79%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.01%) Postman
7 8 (1.24%) GitLab
7 8 (1.24%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.93%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.77%) JUnit
10 4 (0.62%) Gatling
10 4 (0.62%) Hudson
10 4 (0.62%) MLflow
10 4 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.62%) TestRail
11 3 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.46%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.46%) TestNG
General
1 304 (47.06%) Finance
2 268 (41.49%) Social Skills
3 199 (30.80%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.53%) Law
5 60 (9.29%) Banking
6 54 (8.36%) Legal
7 49 (7.59%) Manufacturing
8 39 (6.04%) Retail
9 38 (5.88%) Investment Banking
10 37 (5.73%) Public Sector
11 36 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (4.02%) Marketing
13 21 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
15 19 (2.94%) Billing
16 16 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.70%) Advertising
18 10 (1.55%) Aerospace
19 9 (1.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 212 (32.82%) Analyst
2 122 (18.89%) Business Analyst
3 105 (16.25%) Consultant
4 62 (9.60%) Lead
5 55 (8.51%) Senior
6 38 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
7 35 (5.42%) Support Analyst
8 33 (5.11%) Project Manager
9 29 (4.49%) Technical Analyst
10 25 (3.87%) Systems Analyst
11 24 (3.72%) Transformation Analyst
12 23 (3.56%) Banking Analyst
13 21 (3.25%) Senior Analyst
14 20 (3.10%) Systems Support
14 20 (3.10%) Test Leader
14 20 (3.10%) Transformation Manager
15 19 (2.94%) QA Leader
16 17 (2.63%) Developer
16 17 (2.63%) Functional Consultant
16 17 (2.63%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.87%) Middleware
1 25 (3.87%) PySpark
1 25 (3.87%) REST
2 24 (3.72%) Playwright
3 17 (2.63%) Pandas
4 14 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (2.01%) SAP Fiori
6 12 (1.86%) XML
7 9 (1.39%) RESTful
7 9 (1.39%) Web Services
8 8 (1.24%) .NET
9 7 (1.08%) React
9 7 (1.08%) SAP Core Interface
9 7 (1.08%) Swagger
10 6 (0.93%) Flask
10 6 (0.93%) JSON
11 5 (0.77%) Blazor
11 5 (0.77%) EDI
11 5 (0.77%) OpenAPI
12 4 (0.62%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.97%) Product Ownership
2 41 (6.35%) Onboarding
3 40 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 18 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 12 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.86%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.39%) Driving Licence
10 9 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.24%) Blog
11 8 (1.24%) Derivative
12 7 (1.08%) Fixed Income
13 6 (0.93%) CMDB
13 6 (0.93%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.93%) NHS
14 5 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.32%) Windows
2 13 (2.01%) Linux
3 7 (1.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.77%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.15%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (33.13%) Agile
1 214 (33.13%) Continuous Improvement
2 193 (29.88%) Problem-Solving
2 193 (29.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 131 (20.28%) ERP
4 123 (19.04%) Migration
4 123 (19.04%) Requirements Gathering
5 119 (18.42%) Validation
6 108 (16.72%) System Integration Testing
7 101 (15.63%) Process Improvement
8 89 (13.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 88 (13.62%) User Stories
10 86 (13.31%) Translating Business Requirements
11 79 (12.23%) Test Automation
12 78 (12.07%) DevOps
13 77 (11.92%) Data Migration
13 77 (11.92%) Workshop Facilitation
14 74 (11.46%) Business Analysis
14 74 (11.46%) Business Intelligence
15 72 (11.15%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 122 (18.89%) SQL
2 60 (9.29%) Python
3 31 (4.80%) C#
4 20 (3.10%) Java
5 19 (2.94%) ABAP
5 19 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.86%) C++
7 10 (1.55%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.24%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.77%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.62%) Rust
11 4 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.46%) Perl
12 3 (0.46%) VBA
13 2 (0.31%) Bash
13 2 (0.31%) Go
13 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 84 (13.00%) Degree
2 28 (4.33%) Security Cleared
3 21 (3.25%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 15 (2.32%) PMP
6 12 (1.86%) ISTQB
7 11 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.55%) ACCA
8 10 (1.55%) CIMA
8 10 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.55%) SAP Certification
9 8 (1.24%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 5 (0.77%) CCA
11 5 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.62%) IIBA
12 4 (0.62%) ISEB
12 4 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (16.41%) QA
2 71 (10.99%) Data Quality
3 51 (7.89%) GDPR
4 28 (4.33%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.10%) PMO
6 15 (2.32%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (2.17%) SLA
8 12 (1.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (1.24%) GAAP
9 8 (1.24%) IFRS
10 5 (0.77%) TickIT
10 5 (0.77%) WCAG
11 4 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.46%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.15%) GRC
14 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (2.48%) Docker
2 8 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Firmware
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (3.25%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.48%) Terraform
3 3 (0.46%) Ansible
4 2 (0.31%) Grafana
5 1 (0.15%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 118 (18.27%) Microsoft
1 118 (18.27%) SAP
2 79 (12.23%) Oracle
3 30 (4.64%) ServiceNow
4 28 (4.33%) Salesforce
5 26 (4.02%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.32%) Sage
7 13 (2.01%) Intapp
8 12 (1.86%) Ariba
9 10 (1.55%) FIS
9 10 (1.55%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.39%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.39%) OpenText
11 8 (1.24%) Xero
12 7 (1.08%) Databricks
12 7 (1.08%) HubSpot
12 7 (1.08%) IFS
12 7 (1.08%) iManage
12 7 (1.08%) Workday
13 5 (0.77%) Informatica