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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 275 413
Rank change year-on-year +40 +138 -192
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 816 459 376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 1.06% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.19% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 556 276 217
10th Percentile £31,500 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,256 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.74% -10.83% -
75th Percentile £75,313 £70,000 £71,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,641 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.66% -8.93% +2.13%

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 76,505 38,659 54,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.54% 89.11% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 53,771 21,904 29,620
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,750
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 £75,816 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +25 301 £71,000 +9.23% 631
North of England +93 211 £55,000 +4.76% 162
North West +92 143 £55,000 +4.76% 83
South East -52 124 £45,000 +5.88% 219
Midlands +3 100 £49,000 +3.16% 115
West Midlands +3 73 £49,000 +3.16% 76
Yorkshire -4 52 £82,500 +50.00% 57
South West -55 34 £53,750 -6.52% 71
East of England -33 32 £45,025 -15.05% 71
East Midlands -40 27 £47,500 -13.64% 37
North East -46 16 £37,000 -9.76% 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 52 (6.37%) Confluence
2 28 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.98%) CMS
4 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.37%) IIS
6 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.25%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 59 (7.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.70%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.49%) 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 93 (11.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (3.43%) NetSuite
4 18 (2.21%) Dynamics AX
5 14 (1.72%) Workday HCM
6 9 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (1.10%) SAP SD
7 8 (0.98%) Infor CloudSuite
7 8 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.98%) Sage 50
8 7 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
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
8 7 (0.86%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.74%) iTrent
9 6 (0.74%) Unit4 Business World
10 5 (0.61%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 150 (18.38%) Azure
2 107 (13.11%) Power Platform
3 106 (12.99%) Dynamics 365
4 64 (7.84%) SaaS
5 63 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (7.60%) AWS
7 37 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (3.06%) PowerApps
9 17 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
10 16 (1.96%) GCP
11 15 (1.84%) GitHub
11 15 (1.84%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (0.98%) Boomi
13 8 (0.98%) OCI
14 7 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (0.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 6 (0.74%) Asana
15 6 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.61%) 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 82 (10.05%) Power BI
2 21 (2.57%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.47%) Metadata
6 10 (1.23%) Oracle Database
6 10 (1.23%) SAP BW
7 9 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (1.10%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.37%) DTS
12 2 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
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
1 111 (13.60%) JIRA
2 31 (3.80%) Selenium
3 25 (3.06%) Git
4 18 (2.21%) GitLab
5 17 (2.08%) Postman
6 12 (1.47%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.47%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.35%) 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 (0.61%) 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%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 377 (46.20%) Finance
2 371 (45.47%) Social Skills
3 236 (28.92%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (10.66%) Law
5 81 (9.93%) Manufacturing
6 59 (7.23%) Retail
7 54 (6.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (6.37%) Public Sector
9 50 (6.13%) Legal
10 42 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
11 41 (5.02%) Marketing
12 40 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (4.41%) Banking
14 26 (3.19%) General Ledger
15 24 (2.94%) Billing
16 18 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (2.08%) Automotive
17 17 (2.08%) Telecoms
18 15 (1.84%) Military
19 12 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 236 (28.92%) Analyst
2 148 (18.14%) Consultant
3 133 (16.30%) Business Analyst
4 76 (9.31%) Senior
5 73 (8.95%) Lead
6 45 (5.51%) Support Analyst
7 40 (4.90%) Project Manager
8 35 (4.29%) SAP Consultant
8 35 (4.29%) Systems Analyst
9 34 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 34 (4.17%) Functional Consultant
10 30 (3.68%) Tester
11 28 (3.43%) Developer
12 23 (2.82%) Applications Support
12 23 (2.82%) Applications Support Analyst
12 23 (2.82%) Architect
13 21 (2.57%) Senior Consultant
13 21 (2.57%) Systems Support
14 19 (2.33%) Junior
14 19 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.17%) REST
2 26 (3.19%) Playwright
2 26 (3.19%) SAP Fiori
3 20 (2.45%) Middleware
4 18 (2.21%) JSON
4 18 (2.21%) XML
5 17 (2.08%) SOAP
6 12 (1.47%) .NET
6 12 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
7 11 (1.35%) Terraform
8 8 (0.98%) HTML
9 7 (0.86%) ADO
9 7 (0.86%) Lightning Web Components
9 7 (0.86%) React
9 7 (0.86%) SAP Core Interface
10 6 (0.74%) CSS
10 6 (0.74%) EDI
10 6 (0.74%) SailPoint
10 6 (0.74%) SAPUI5
10 6 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (8.95%) Product Ownership
2 42 (5.15%) Management Information System
3 38 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.57%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (1.84%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.23%) FMCG
9 10 (1.23%) NHS
10 9 (1.10%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 8 (0.98%) e-Learning
11 8 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.86%) CMDB
12 7 (0.86%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.86%) SystemC
12 7 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.21%) Windows
2 13 (1.59%) Linux
3 5 (0.61%) 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
1 326 (39.95%) Stakeholder Management
2 315 (38.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 306 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 262 (32.11%) Agile
5 201 (24.63%) ERP
6 194 (23.77%) Requirements Gathering
7 180 (22.06%) Validation
8 162 (19.85%) Migration
9 153 (18.75%) Process Improvement
10 140 (17.16%) System Integration Testing
11 132 (16.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 127 (15.56%) Data Migration
13 121 (14.83%) CRM
13 121 (14.83%) Project Delivery
14 117 (14.34%) Translating Business Requirements
14 117 (14.34%) User Stories
15 112 (13.73%) Business Analysis
16 109 (13.36%) DevOps
17 107 (13.11%) Workshop Facilitation
18 93 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 139 (17.03%) SQL
2 30 (3.68%) Python
3 29 (3.55%) C#
4 26 (3.19%) ABAP
5 23 (2.82%) Java
6 21 (2.57%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.74%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.37%) C++
11 3 (0.37%) Perl
11 3 (0.37%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.37%) VBA
12 2 (0.25%) Bash
12 2 (0.25%) Scala
13 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.12%) Ruby
13 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (14.09%) Degree
2 54 (6.62%) Security Cleared
3 45 (5.51%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.82%) ACCA
5 23 (2.82%) CIMA
6 22 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 19 (2.33%) ISTQB
8 17 (2.08%) PMP
9 16 (1.96%) SAP Certification
10 10 (1.23%) ISEB
11 9 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.10%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.98%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 8 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 5 (0.61%) CISA
13 5 (0.61%) CISSP
13 5 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.49%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (17.77%) QA
2 79 (9.68%) Data Quality
3 63 (7.72%) GDPR
4 18 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (1.59%) SLA
7 11 (1.35%) PMO
8 7 (0.86%) GRC
9 6 (0.74%) GAAP
9 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.74%) WCAG
10 4 (0.49%) IFRS
11 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.25%) GxP
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.25%) TickIT
System Software
1 12 (1.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) IAG
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (2.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.25%) Ansible
2 2 (0.25%) SCCM
3 1 (0.12%) Argo
3 1 (0.12%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 181 (22.18%) Microsoft
2 124 (15.20%) SAP
3 65 (7.97%) Oracle
4 43 (5.27%) Sage
5 41 (5.02%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.43%) ServiceNow
7 26 (3.19%) Workday
8 16 (1.96%) Civica
9 12 (1.47%) Concur
10 10 (1.23%) Google
10 10 (1.23%) Infor
10 10 (1.23%) Intapp
11 9 (1.10%) Xero
12 8 (0.98%) Ariba
12 8 (0.98%) Databricks
12 8 (0.98%) OpenText
13 7 (0.86%) FIS
13 7 (0.86%) iManage
13 7 (0.86%) ION Trading
13 7 (0.86%) MuleSoft