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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 409 220
Rank change year-on-year +146 -189 +82
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 458 355 770
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.08% 0.56% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.68% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 275 198 523
10th Percentile - £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,000 £45,675
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% - +13.21%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.83% +4.35% +6.48%

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 37,821 52,182 47,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.84% 82.64% 93.97%
Number of salaries quoted 21,941 27,921 35,941
10th Percentile £28,325 £33,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 October 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 16 October 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 +85 173 £65,000 -13.33% 176
South East +106 140 £42,500 -20.93% 145
Midlands +45 52 £45,000 -10.00% 44
North of England -17 39 £52,500 -4.55% 34
West Midlands +41 30 £45,000 -18.18% 31
East of England +21 28 £53,000 +32.50% 11
East Midlands +23 22 £53,750 +65.38% 13
North West -28 22 £52,500 -4.55% 19
South West +41 17 £57,500 +35.29% 15
Yorkshire +23 15 £56,250 +35.54% 15
North East +8 2 £41,000 -34.40% 2
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 (6.55%) Confluence
2 14 (3.06%) Tomcat
2 14 (3.06%) WebSphere
2 14 (3.06%) WebSphere Application Server
3 9 (1.97%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.44%) CMS
4 2 (0.44%) Drupal
4 2 (0.44%) EPiServer
4 2 (0.44%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 25 (5.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.40%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.44%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 82 (17.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (3.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.97%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.53%) Oracle Cash Management
4 7 (1.53%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (1.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (1.31%) Dynamics AX
5 6 (1.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (1.09%) Elite 3E
6 5 (1.09%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.87%) Endur
7 4 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.66%) iTrent
8 3 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.66%) SAP PP
9 2 (0.44%) Bloomberg AIM
9 2 (0.44%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 96 (20.96%) Power Platform
2 63 (13.76%) Azure
3 48 (10.48%) Dynamics 365
4 47 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (5.02%) AWS
5 23 (5.02%) Power Automate
6 16 (3.49%) SaaS
7 11 (2.40%) PowerApps
8 7 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.53%) OCI
8 7 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 7 (1.53%) Serverless
9 6 (1.31%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (1.31%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.31%) Route 53
9 6 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.06%) SSL
2 6 (1.31%) VoIP
3 5 (1.09%) DMZ
3 5 (1.09%) STUN
3 5 (1.09%) VLAN
3 5 (1.09%) VPN
4 4 (0.87%) Firewall
5 3 (0.66%) Network Security
6 1 (0.22%) RFID
6 1 (0.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.55%) Power BI
2 18 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.06%) DB2
3 14 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.18%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.97%) Metadata
6 8 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (1.31%) Oracle Database
8 6 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.09%) Tableau
10 4 (0.87%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.87%) KDB
10 4 (0.87%) Kdb+
11 3 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
12 2 (0.44%) MySQL
12 2 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 69 (15.07%) JIRA
2 13 (2.84%) Selenium
3 4 (0.87%) Git
4 3 (0.66%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.66%) eCATT
4 3 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.66%) Postman
4 3 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.44%) Grunt
5 2 (0.44%) gulp
5 2 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.44%) webpack
6 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.22%) GitLab
6 1 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 264 (57.64%) Finance
2 218 (47.60%) Social Skills
3 98 (21.40%) Marketing
4 87 (19.00%) Manufacturing
5 80 (17.47%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (9.17%) Law
7 41 (8.95%) Legal
8 34 (7.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (6.77%) Banking
10 26 (5.68%) Retail
11 23 (5.02%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.84%) Back Office
13 13 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (2.40%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.97%) General Ledger
15 9 (1.97%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.75%) Financial Institution
17 5 (1.09%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 204 (44.54%) Analyst
2 103 (22.49%) Senior
3 74 (16.16%) Senior Analyst
4 66 (14.41%) Business Analyst
5 63 (13.76%) SAP Analyst
6 44 (9.61%) Lead
7 43 (9.39%) Developer
8 39 (8.52%) Consultant
9 31 (6.77%) Applications Support
10 29 (6.33%) Automation Developer
11 25 (5.46%) Functional Consultant
11 25 (5.46%) Systems Analyst
12 23 (5.02%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 21 (4.59%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
14 20 (4.37%) Power Platform Developer
15 19 (4.15%) Test Manager
16 16 (3.49%) Automation Analyst
16 16 (3.49%) Test Leader
17 15 (3.28%) Product Owner
18 14 (3.06%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.06%) LAPP Stack
1 14 (3.06%) LDAP
1 14 (3.06%) WebSphere MQ
2 10 (2.18%) .NET
3 9 (1.97%) HTML
4 8 (1.75%) CSS
5 7 (1.53%) ADO
5 7 (1.53%) EDI
5 7 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 7 (1.53%) XML
6 6 (1.31%) JSON
7 5 (1.09%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (1.09%) Middleware
8 4 (0.87%) Playwright
9 3 (0.66%) REST
9 3 (0.66%) Web Services
10 2 (0.44%) CSS3
10 2 (0.44%) HTML5
10 2 (0.44%) Laravel
10 2 (0.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 51 (11.14%) Greenfield Project
2 31 (6.77%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.75%) Driving Licence
7 8 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (1.75%) Reinsurance
8 6 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.31%) Derivative
8 6 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (1.09%) CMDB
9 5 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.87%) NHS
10 4 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.87%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.66%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 36 (7.86%) Windows
2 26 (5.68%) Linux
3 14 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (3.06%) Unix
4 6 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.09%) Debian
5 5 (1.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (44.32%) Agile
2 138 (30.13%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (18.12%) Roadmaps
4 80 (17.47%) Translating Business Requirements
5 74 (16.16%) Data Management
6 72 (15.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 69 (15.07%) ERP
8 67 (14.63%) Logistics
9 66 (14.41%) Migration
10 62 (13.54%) Data Collection
10 62 (13.54%) Impact Analysis
11 61 (13.32%) Incident Management
12 59 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 59 (12.88%) Technical Leadership
13 58 (12.66%) Architectural Design
13 58 (12.66%) DevOps
13 58 (12.66%) Project Management
14 57 (12.45%) Business Analysis
14 57 (12.45%) Quality Management
14 57 (12.45%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 109 (23.80%) SQL
2 36 (7.86%) Python
3 16 (3.49%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.62%) C#
5 9 (1.97%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.31%) X++
7 5 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.09%) Java
8 4 (0.87%) C
8 4 (0.87%) C++
9 3 (0.66%) PHP
10 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.22%) R
11 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (16.16%) Degree
2 27 (5.90%) ISTQB
3 19 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (3.06%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.06%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (1.53%) ACCA
5 7 (1.53%) CIMA
6 6 (1.31%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.31%) ISEB
6 6 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.87%) GISP
7 4 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (0.87%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.87%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.66%) CBAP
8 3 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.44%) CFA
10 1 (0.22%) IIBA
10 1 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (14.63%) QA
2 26 (5.68%) SLA
3 18 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 12 (2.62%) GDPR
5 7 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.09%) ISO 9001
7 5 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.87%) PMO
8 4 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.44%) MiFID
9 2 (0.44%) UCITS
10 1 (0.22%) EMIR
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (1.09%) Kamailio
2 3 (0.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.09%) Terraform
3 2 (0.44%) Grafana
3 2 (0.44%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.22%) Ansible
4 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 120 (26.20%) Microsoft
2 99 (21.62%) SAP
3 45 (9.83%) Blue Prism
4 31 (6.77%) Oracle
5 26 (5.68%) Salesforce
6 19 (4.15%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.49%) IBM
8 14 (3.06%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.09%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.09%) Databricks
9 5 (1.09%) iManage
10 4 (0.87%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.66%) DocuSign
11 3 (0.66%) OpenLink
11 3 (0.66%) Workday
12 2 (0.44%) Aderant
12 2 (0.44%) Intapp
12 2 (0.44%) OneTrust
12 2 (0.44%) Qualtrics
12 2 (0.44%) Refinitiv