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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 275 400
Rank change year-on-year +34 +125 -180
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 810 450 390
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 1.05% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.18% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 561 270 225
10th Percentile £31,750 £38,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £71,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £83,050
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year +4.55% -6.30% +2.09%

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 76,170 38,152 55,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.53% 89.06% 82.25%
Number of salaries quoted 53,672 21,624 29,977
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,000 £78,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 +31 305 £72,500 +11.54% 482
North of England +89 219 £55,000 +4.76% 117
North West +87 146 £55,000 +10.00% 68
South East -63 112 £45,000 +5.88% 147
Midlands -8 97 £49,000 -6.67% 85
West Midlands -2 72 £49,000 +3.16% 56
Yorkshire +11 57 £83,750 +52.27% 37
South West -66 34 £53,750 -6.52% 46
East of England -34 29 £45,050 -15.00% 50
East Midlands -38 25 £47,500 -17.39% 29
North East -54 16 £37,000 -9.76% 12
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 49 (6.05%) Confluence
2 27 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.11%) CMS
3 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
4 3 (0.37%) IIS
5 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.25%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.25%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.12%) nginx
6 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 58 (7.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (2.84%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.25%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 99 (12.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 34 (4.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (3.46%) NetSuite
4 14 (1.73%) Workday HCM
5 11 (1.36%) Dynamics AX
5 11 (1.36%) SAP SD
6 9 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.99%) Sage 50
7 8 (0.99%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.86%) Infor CloudSuite
8 7 (0.86%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.86%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.86%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.86%) SAP GRC
9 6 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
9 6 (0.74%) iTrent
9 6 (0.74%) Unit4 Business World
10 5 (0.62%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 149 (18.40%) Azure
2 108 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 104 (12.84%) Dynamics 365
4 64 (7.90%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (7.78%) SaaS
6 62 (7.65%) AWS
7 37 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (3.46%) PowerApps
9 19 (2.35%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.10%) GCP
10 17 (2.10%) SuccessFactors
11 14 (1.73%) GitHub
12 11 (1.36%) Boomi
12 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (0.86%) OCI
13 7 (0.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (0.74%) Asana
14 6 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.62%) HTTP
2 2 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (0.25%) Intranet
2 2 (0.25%) SAN
2 2 (0.25%) VoIP
3 1 (0.12%) Broadband
3 1 (0.12%) FTP
3 1 (0.12%) Network Security
3 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (10.25%) Power BI
2 19 (2.35%) SQL Server
3 15 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.36%) Metadata
5 11 (1.36%) SAP BW
6 10 (1.23%) SAP HANA
7 8 (0.99%) Oracle Database
7 8 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.37%) DTS
12 2 (0.25%) EDRMS
12 2 (0.25%) MySQL
12 2 (0.25%) Power Query
12 2 (0.25%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 107 (13.21%) JIRA
2 31 (3.83%) Selenium
3 25 (3.09%) Git
4 18 (2.22%) Postman
5 17 (2.10%) GitLab
6 12 (1.48%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.48%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.86%) Gatling
8 7 (0.86%) Hudson
8 7 (0.86%) Zephyr
9 6 (0.74%) JMeter
9 6 (0.74%) JUnit
10 5 (0.62%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.37%) LSMW
12 3 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 381 (47.04%) Finance
2 370 (45.68%) Social Skills
3 239 (29.51%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (10.86%) Law
5 74 (9.14%) Manufacturing
6 55 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (6.79%) Retail
7 52 (6.42%) Legal
8 51 (6.30%) Public Sector
9 41 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (4.81%) Marketing
10 39 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
11 34 (4.20%) Banking
12 26 (3.21%) General Ledger
13 24 (2.96%) Billing
14 22 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.98%) Automotive
15 16 (1.98%) Telecoms
16 15 (1.85%) Military
17 11 (1.36%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 237 (29.26%) Analyst
2 142 (17.53%) Consultant
3 134 (16.54%) Business Analyst
4 75 (9.26%) Lead
5 67 (8.27%) Senior
6 44 (5.43%) Support Analyst
7 41 (5.06%) SAP Consultant
8 40 (4.94%) Project Manager
9 36 (4.44%) Systems Analyst
10 34 (4.20%) Functional Consultant
11 29 (3.58%) Tester
12 27 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 26 (3.21%) Developer
14 24 (2.96%) Architect
15 22 (2.72%) Applications Support
15 22 (2.72%) Applications Support Analyst
16 21 (2.59%) Systems Support
17 20 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
18 19 (2.35%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
19 18 (2.22%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.32%) REST
2 27 (3.33%) SAP Fiori
3 26 (3.21%) Playwright
4 25 (3.09%) Middleware
5 18 (2.22%) JSON
5 18 (2.22%) XML
6 16 (1.98%) SOAP
7 11 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (1.36%) Terraform
8 10 (1.23%) .NET
9 8 (0.99%) HTML
9 8 (0.99%) SAP Core Interface
10 7 (0.86%) ADO
10 7 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
10 7 (0.86%) React
11 6 (0.74%) CSS
11 6 (0.74%) EDI
11 6 (0.74%) SailPoint
11 6 (0.74%) SAPUI5
12 5 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 42 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 39 (4.81%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 22 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 15 (1.85%) Driving Licence
7 12 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 10 (1.23%) NHS
10 9 (1.11%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.11%) FMCG
11 8 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (0.86%) e-Learning
12 7 (0.86%) Replication
12 7 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.86%) SystemC
12 7 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.22%) Windows
2 13 (1.60%) Linux
3 5 (0.62%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.37%) VMS
5 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Unix
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (39.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 308 (38.02%) Continuous Improvement
3 306 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
4 256 (31.60%) Agile
5 202 (24.94%) ERP
6 184 (22.72%) Requirements Gathering
7 179 (22.10%) Validation
8 167 (20.62%) Migration
9 148 (18.27%) Process Improvement
10 142 (17.53%) System Integration Testing
11 129 (15.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 127 (15.68%) Data Migration
13 123 (15.19%) Project Delivery
14 119 (14.69%) CRM
14 119 (14.69%) User Stories
15 118 (14.57%) Translating Business Requirements
16 112 (13.83%) Business Analysis
17 111 (13.70%) Workshop Facilitation
18 109 (13.46%) DevOps
19 95 (11.73%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 133 (16.42%) SQL
2 29 (3.58%) C#
2 29 (3.58%) Python
3 27 (3.33%) ABAP
4 22 (2.72%) Java
4 22 (2.72%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.85%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.23%) TypeScript
7 6 (0.74%) Apex Code
8 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.49%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.37%) C++
9 3 (0.37%) Perl
9 3 (0.37%) VBA
10 2 (0.25%) Bash
10 2 (0.25%) Scala
11 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.12%) PHP
11 1 (0.12%) Ruby
11 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 104 (12.84%) Degree
2 53 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 44 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 23 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.72%) ACCA
5 22 (2.72%) CIMA
5 22 (2.72%) PMI Certification
6 19 (2.35%) ISTQB
7 17 (2.10%) PMP
8 16 (1.98%) SAP Certification
9 10 (1.23%) ISEB
10 9 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.99%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.99%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 8 (0.99%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 5 (0.62%) CISA
12 5 (0.62%) CISSP
12 5 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.49%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (17.65%) QA
2 78 (9.63%) Data Quality
3 65 (8.02%) GDPR
4 18 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (2.10%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.85%) PMO
7 13 (1.60%) SLA
8 7 (0.86%) GAAP
8 7 (0.86%) GRC
9 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.74%) WCAG
10 5 (0.62%) IFRS
10 5 (0.62%) TickIT
11 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.25%) SOC 3
System Software
1 12 (1.48%) Docker
2 5 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) IAG
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 16 (1.98%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.25%) Ansible
2 2 (0.25%) SCCM
3 1 (0.12%) Argo
3 1 (0.12%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 175 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 132 (16.30%) SAP
3 62 (7.65%) Oracle
4 43 (5.31%) Sage
5 40 (4.94%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 27 (3.33%) Workday
7 15 (1.85%) Civica
8 12 (1.48%) Concur
9 10 (1.23%) Intapp
10 9 (1.11%) Ariba
10 9 (1.11%) FIS
10 9 (1.11%) Google
10 9 (1.11%) Infor
10 9 (1.11%) OpenText
10 9 (1.11%) Xero
11 8 (0.99%) Databricks
11 8 (0.99%) ION Trading
12 7 (0.86%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.74%) iManage