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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 376 259
Rank change year-on-year +137 -117 +29
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 477 347 538
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.93% 0.67% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.75% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 271 182 445
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,650
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,040 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +6.36%

All Process and 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 42,973 46,002 40,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.43% 89.38% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 25,566 23,576 31,202
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 +109 205 £63,750 -12.07% 100
South East +123 140 £42,500 -22.73% 88
Midlands +43 65 £42,500 -15.00% 28
West Midlands +35 41 £42,500 -18.19% 14
North of England -21 30 £50,000 -9.09% 30
East Midlands +12 24 £55,000 +69.23% 14
North West -8 15 £38,750 -40.38% 19
East of England +28 13 £51,250 +31.41% 13
South West +2 13 £53,500 +18.89% 14
Yorkshire -7 12 £70,000 +115.48% 10
North East +2 3 £48,000 -18.30% 1
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 23 (4.82%) Confluence
2 16 (3.35%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.35%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.35%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.05%) Appian
5 4 (0.84%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Drupal
6 2 (0.42%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (7.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.52%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 85 (17.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (3.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.47%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (1.05%) Endur
5 5 (1.05%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.63%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.63%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.42%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.42%) iTrent
7 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.42%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.42%) SAP EWM
7 2 (0.42%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.42%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 108 (22.64%) Power Platform
2 66 (13.84%) Azure
3 48 (10.06%) Dynamics 365
4 38 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (6.08%) Power Automate
6 22 (4.61%) AWS
7 20 (4.19%) SaaS
8 14 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (2.52%) PowerApps
10 11 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.10%) OCI
12 8 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.68%) Serverless
13 7 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.26%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.26%) Route 53
14 6 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.35%) SSL
2 9 (1.89%) VPN
3 5 (1.05%) DMZ
3 5 (1.05%) STUN
3 5 (1.05%) VLAN
3 5 (1.05%) VoIP
4 2 (0.42%) GSM
4 2 (0.42%) LTE
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.21%) RFID
5 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (8.81%) Power BI
2 27 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.35%) DB2
5 15 (3.14%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.52%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (2.10%) Metadata
8 9 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.05%) MySQL
10 5 (1.05%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.05%) Tableau
11 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.84%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 60 (12.58%) JIRA
2 6 (1.26%) Selenium
3 5 (1.05%) Git
3 5 (1.05%) MLflow
4 4 (0.84%) Postman
5 3 (0.63%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.63%) eCATT
5 3 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
5 3 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.42%) GitLab
6 2 (0.42%) Grunt
6 2 (0.42%) gulp
6 2 (0.42%) webpack
7 1 (0.21%) Appium
7 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 264 (55.35%) Finance
2 236 (49.48%) Social Skills
3 108 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (19.71%) Marketing
5 89 (18.66%) Manufacturing
6 36 (7.55%) Banking
7 29 (6.08%) Retail
8 28 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (5.45%) Legal
10 24 (5.03%) Law
11 21 (4.40%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (2.52%) Investment Banking
13 12 (2.52%) Public Sector
14 11 (2.31%) Back Office
15 10 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (1.26%) General Ledger
18 5 (1.05%) Financial Institution
18 5 (1.05%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 226 (47.38%) Analyst
2 103 (21.59%) Senior
3 86 (18.03%) Senior Analyst
4 77 (16.14%) Business Analyst
5 61 (12.79%) SAP Analyst
6 45 (9.43%) Developer
7 41 (8.60%) Lead
8 37 (7.76%) Applications Support
8 37 (7.76%) Consultant
9 29 (6.08%) Automation Developer
10 26 (5.45%) Support Analyst
11 21 (4.40%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
12 20 (4.19%) Functional Consultant
12 20 (4.19%) Power Platform Developer
13 18 (3.77%) Systems Analyst
14 17 (3.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 17 (3.56%) Test Leader
15 16 (3.35%) Automation Analyst
15 16 (3.35%) Infrastructure Support
15 16 (3.35%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.35%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.35%) LDAP
1 16 (3.35%) WebSphere MQ
2 15 (3.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (2.10%) REST
3 10 (2.10%) XML
4 9 (1.89%) .NET
4 9 (1.89%) JSON
5 8 (1.68%) EDI
5 8 (1.68%) HTML
6 7 (1.47%) CSS
6 7 (1.47%) RESTful
6 7 (1.47%) Web Services
7 5 (1.05%) ADO
7 5 (1.05%) Django
7 5 (1.05%) Flask
7 5 (1.05%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (1.05%) NumPy
7 5 (1.05%) OAuth
7 5 (1.05%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 47 (9.85%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (8.18%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 20 (4.19%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (4.19%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.68%) NHS
8 7 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.47%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.47%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.26%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.05%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.05%) CMDB
10 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.84%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.71%) Windows
2 31 (6.50%) Linux
3 16 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (3.35%) Unix
4 7 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.05%) Debian
5 5 (1.05%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (39.62%) Agile
2 150 (31.45%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (18.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 86 (18.03%) Roadmaps
5 80 (16.77%) Translating Business Requirements
6 75 (15.72%) ERP
7 74 (15.51%) Logistics
8 71 (14.88%) Change Management
8 71 (14.88%) Data Management
9 70 (14.68%) Migration
10 64 (13.42%) AI
10 64 (13.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 63 (13.21%) Incident Management
12 62 (13.00%) Business Analysis
12 62 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 62 (13.00%) Requirements Gathering
12 62 (13.00%) Validation
13 61 (12.79%) Data Collection
13 61 (12.79%) Impact Analysis
14 60 (12.58%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (27.67%) SQL
2 40 (8.39%) Python
3 19 (3.98%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.52%) C#
4 12 (2.52%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.63%) Java
6 3 (0.63%) PHP
6 3 (0.63%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.63%) VBA
7 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.21%) Bash
8 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (19.08%) Degree
2 22 (4.61%) ISTQB
3 17 (3.56%) AWS Certification
3 17 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (3.35%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (2.31%) Security Cleared
6 8 (1.68%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 7 (1.47%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.26%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.26%) ISEB
9 5 (1.05%) ACCA
9 5 (1.05%) CIMA
9 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.05%) IIBA
9 5 (1.05%) PMP
10 4 (0.84%) CBAP
11 2 (0.42%) CFA
11 2 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.58%) QA
2 27 (5.66%) SLA
3 26 (5.45%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (1.26%) GDPR
5 5 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.05%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.63%) HL7
6 3 (0.63%) MiFID
6 3 (0.63%) PMO
7 2 (0.42%) UCITS
8 1 (0.21%) EMIR
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (1.26%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) Kamailio
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.42%) Grafana
3 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.42%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
4 1 (0.21%) Control-M
4 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.21%) Puppet
4 1 (0.21%) SCCM
4 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 115 (24.11%) Microsoft
2 104 (21.80%) SAP
3 45 (9.43%) Blue Prism
4 40 (8.39%) Oracle
5 19 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 18 (3.77%) IBM
6 18 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.35%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.47%) Workday
9 6 (1.26%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
10 5 (1.05%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.05%) Databricks
10 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.05%) UiPath
11 4 (0.84%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.84%) Ariba
12 3 (0.63%) Concur
12 3 (0.63%) HP
12 3 (0.63%) iManage