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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 371 350
Rank change year-on-year +121 -21 -86
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 620 288 649
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.74% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.80% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 411 190 514
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,150 £34,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.36%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
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 61,529 36,213 74,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.94% 93.28% 83.22%
Number of salaries quoted 40,990 19,458 55,070
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +123 296 £67,500 -7.85% 199
North of England +42 135 £56,250 -8.21% 69
North West +22 68 £55,000 -16.98% 43
Midlands -17 62 £50,000 +5.26% 57
West Midlands -17 52 £50,000 +5.26% 38
South East +3 49 £52,500 -8.70% 77
Yorkshire -9 49 £82,500 +65.00% 23
East of England -10 32 £50,025 -5.61% 14
South West -52 29 £55,000 +0.66% 21
North East - 18 £41,500 - 3
East Midlands -21 10 £30,000 -57.14% 19
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 32 (5.16%) Confluence
2 25 (4.03%) Apache
2 25 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.39%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.29%) Appian
4 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.48%) CMS
5 3 (0.48%) IIS
6 2 (0.32%) WordPress
7 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 41 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 24 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 77 (12.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.77%) Dynamics AX
4 10 (1.61%) SAP SD
5 8 (1.29%) Elite 3E
5 8 (1.29%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (1.29%) Sage 50
6 7 (1.13%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.97%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.81%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.81%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.81%) Unit4 Business World
9 4 (0.65%) iTrent
9 4 (0.65%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.65%) SAP GTS
9 4 (0.65%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.65%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.65%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 112 (18.06%) Azure
2 79 (12.74%) Power Platform
3 66 (10.65%) AWS
4 54 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (8.39%) Dynamics 365
6 34 (5.48%) Power Automate
7 33 (5.32%) SaaS
8 29 (4.68%) Amazon S3
9 28 (4.52%) PowerApps
10 25 (4.03%) OpenShift
11 24 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (3.23%) GCP
13 12 (1.94%) Boomi
14 8 (1.29%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.29%) Azure AI
14 8 (1.29%) Azure AKS
14 8 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.29%) Snowflake
15 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.13%) VPN
2 5 (0.81%) HTTP
3 2 (0.32%) Intranet
3 2 (0.32%) LAN
3 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.32%) VoIP
3 2 (0.32%) WAN
3 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) FTP
4 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (9.68%) Power BI
2 30 (4.84%) Oracle Database
3 28 (4.52%) Tableau
4 27 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 25 (4.03%) Apache Hive
5 25 (4.03%) Impala
5 25 (4.03%) Parquet
5 25 (4.03%) Spark SQL
6 11 (1.77%) SAP HANA
7 9 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.45%) SAP BW
8 8 (1.29%) Pinecone
9 6 (0.97%) MySQL
9 6 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.97%) Power Query
9 6 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.81%) DB2
10 5 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 88 (14.19%) JIRA
2 34 (5.48%) Git
2 34 (5.48%) Selenium
3 25 (4.03%) IBM UrbanCode
4 24 (3.87%) Cypress.io
5 16 (2.58%) Postman
6 8 (1.29%) GitLab
6 8 (1.29%) MLflow
7 7 (1.13%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.97%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.81%) JUnit
9 5 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.65%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.65%) TestRail
11 3 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.48%) Gatling
11 3 (0.48%) Ranorex
11 3 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 278 (44.84%) Finance
2 251 (40.48%) Social Skills
3 178 (28.71%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (11.13%) Law
5 65 (10.48%) Banking
6 56 (9.03%) Legal
7 48 (7.74%) Manufacturing
8 38 (6.13%) Retail
9 37 (5.97%) Investment Banking
10 36 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (4.84%) Public Sector
12 26 (4.19%) Marketing
13 21 (3.39%) Billing
14 17 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
17 9 (1.45%) Games
18 8 (1.29%) Advertising
18 8 (1.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 206 (33.23%) Analyst
2 114 (18.39%) Business Analyst
3 105 (16.94%) Consultant
4 66 (10.65%) Lead
5 61 (9.84%) Senior
6 38 (6.13%) SAP Consultant
7 36 (5.81%) Technical Analyst
8 32 (5.16%) Project Manager
9 30 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
10 27 (4.35%) Transformation Analyst
11 24 (3.87%) Support Analyst
11 24 (3.87%) Systems Analyst
12 23 (3.71%) Banking Analyst
13 21 (3.39%) QA Leader
13 21 (3.39%) Test Leader
14 20 (3.23%) Transformation Manager
15 18 (2.90%) Developer
16 17 (2.74%) Functional Consultant
16 17 (2.74%) SAP Manager
17 16 (2.58%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.52%) REST
2 27 (4.35%) Playwright
3 25 (4.03%) PySpark
4 24 (3.87%) Middleware
5 21 (3.39%) Pandas
6 13 (2.10%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (2.10%) RESTful
6 13 (2.10%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (2.10%) Web Services
7 12 (1.94%) Swagger
8 11 (1.77%) OpenAPI
9 10 (1.61%) Flask
10 9 (1.45%) .NET
10 9 (1.45%) JSON
10 9 (1.45%) XML
11 8 (1.29%) Django
11 8 (1.29%) NumPy
11 8 (1.29%) OAuth
11 8 (1.29%) pytest
11 8 (1.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.26%) Onboarding
2 44 (7.10%) Legacy Systems
3 39 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.90%) Data Structures
6 18 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 14 (2.26%) NHS
9 13 (2.10%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.77%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 8 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.13%) CMDB
13 7 (1.13%) Derivative
14 5 (0.81%) Replication
14 5 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.42%) Windows
2 13 (2.10%) Linux
3 7 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.81%) Unix
5 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (33.71%) Agile
2 190 (30.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 182 (29.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 174 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (19.84%) Requirements Gathering
6 117 (18.87%) Migration
7 111 (17.90%) ERP
8 107 (17.26%) Validation
9 94 (15.16%) System Integration Testing
10 91 (14.68%) Test Automation
11 88 (14.19%) User Stories
12 81 (13.06%) CI/CD
13 80 (12.90%) DevOps
14 79 (12.74%) Translating Business Requirements
15 78 (12.58%) Process Improvement
16 77 (12.42%) Workshop Facilitation
17 75 (12.10%) Business Intelligence
18 74 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 70 (11.29%) Data Migration
20 68 (10.97%) AI
Programming Languages
1 120 (19.35%) SQL
2 60 (9.68%) Python
3 35 (5.65%) C#
4 23 (3.71%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.23%) Java
6 19 (3.06%) ABAP
7 12 (1.94%) C++
8 8 (1.29%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.65%) Rust
11 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.65%) VBA
12 3 (0.48%) Perl
13 2 (0.32%) Go
13 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.16%) C
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 76 (12.26%) Degree
2 23 (3.71%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.23%) PMI Certification
4 18 (2.90%) ISTQB
5 16 (2.58%) PMP
5 16 (2.58%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.61%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.97%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.97%) IIBA
9 6 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (0.97%) SAP Certification
10 5 (0.81%) ACCA
10 5 (0.81%) CBAP
10 5 (0.81%) CIMA
10 5 (0.81%) ISEB
10 5 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.65%) CCA
11 4 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (18.39%) QA
2 72 (11.61%) Data Quality
3 51 (8.23%) GDPR
4 33 (5.32%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.23%) PMO
6 15 (2.42%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.42%) SLA
7 13 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (1.13%) IFRS
10 6 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.97%) GAAP
11 5 (0.81%) HL7
11 5 (0.81%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.81%) TickIT
11 5 (0.81%) WCAG
12 4 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.32%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.32%) PSD2
14 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (3.23%) Docker
2 8 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.65%) Firmware
3 4 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.58%) Terraform
3 3 (0.48%) Ansible
4 2 (0.32%) Grafana
4 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (17.74%) SAP
2 95 (15.32%) Microsoft
3 77 (12.42%) Oracle
4 27 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 26 (4.19%) Red Hat
5 26 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.10%) Intapp
7 10 (1.61%) Ariba
7 10 (1.61%) FIS
7 10 (1.61%) Sage
8 9 (1.45%) ION Trading
8 9 (1.45%) OpenText
9 8 (1.29%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.29%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.29%) UiPath
9 8 (1.29%) Xero
10 7 (1.13%) IFS
10 7 (1.13%) iManage
10 7 (1.13%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.97%) HubSpot