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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 364 355
Rank change year-on-year +115 -9 -88
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 631 297 651
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.77% 0.76% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.81% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 417 195 511
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £33,750
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 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,250 £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 59,697 36,481 76,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.91% 92.81% 82.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,672 19,839 55,609
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £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 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 9 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 9 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 +96 292 £67,500 -6.90% 158
North of England +43 144 £55,000 -4.40% 57
North West +37 76 £55,000 -12.00% 35
Midlands -10 61 £50,000 +5.26% 47
South East +7 54 £49,000 -14.78% 76
West Midlands -2 51 £50,000 +5.26% 32
Yorkshire -4 50 £82,500 +50.00% 20
East of England +1 32 £50,025 -5.61% 13
South West -34 30 £55,000 +0.66% 20
North East - 18 £41,500 - 4
East Midlands -31 10 £30,000 -57.14% 15
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 (5.07%) Confluence
2 25 (3.96%) Apache
2 25 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 24 (3.80%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.27%) Appian
4 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.63%) CMS
6 3 (0.48%) IIS
7 2 (0.32%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 39 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (5.07%) MS Visio
3 25 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 78 (12.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.74%) Dynamics AX
4 10 (1.58%) SAP SD
5 8 (1.27%) Elite 3E
5 8 (1.27%) Sage 50
6 7 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (1.11%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.95%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.79%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.79%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
9 4 (0.63%) iTrent
9 4 (0.63%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.63%) SAP GTS
9 4 (0.63%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.63%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.63%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 116 (18.38%) Azure
2 79 (12.52%) Power Platform
3 65 (10.30%) AWS
4 55 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (8.40%) Dynamics 365
6 36 (5.71%) SaaS
7 34 (5.39%) Power Automate
8 29 (4.60%) Amazon S3
9 28 (4.44%) PowerApps
10 26 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (3.96%) OpenShift
12 20 (3.17%) GCP
13 12 (1.90%) Boomi
14 8 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
14 8 (1.27%) Azure AI
14 8 (1.27%) Azure AKS
14 8 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.27%) Snowflake
15 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
15 7 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.95%) VPN
2 5 (0.79%) 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 (9.51%) Power BI
2 31 (4.91%) Oracle Database
3 28 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.44%) Tableau
4 25 (3.96%) Apache Hive
4 25 (3.96%) Impala
4 25 (3.96%) Parquet
4 25 (3.96%) Spark SQL
5 11 (1.74%) SAP HANA
6 9 (1.43%) SAP BW
7 8 (1.27%) Pinecone
7 8 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.95%) Power Query
9 6 (0.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.79%) Db2
10 5 (0.79%) Metadata
10 5 (0.79%) MySQL
10 5 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 88 (13.95%) JIRA
2 35 (5.55%) Git
2 35 (5.55%) Selenium
3 25 (3.96%) IBM UrbanCode
4 24 (3.80%) Cypress.io
5 16 (2.54%) Postman
6 8 (1.27%) GitLab
6 8 (1.27%) MLflow
7 7 (1.11%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.95%) REST Assured
8 6 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.79%) JUnit
10 4 (0.63%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.63%) Ranorex
10 4 (0.63%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.63%) TestRail
11 3 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.48%) Gatling
11 3 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 283 (44.85%) Finance
2 254 (40.25%) Social Skills
3 181 (28.68%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (11.25%) Law
5 63 (9.98%) Banking
6 56 (8.87%) Legal
7 47 (7.45%) Manufacturing
8 38 (6.02%) Retail
9 37 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (5.86%) Investment Banking
10 30 (4.75%) Public Sector
11 27 (4.28%) Marketing
12 21 (3.33%) Billing
13 17 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (1.74%) Aerospace
18 9 (1.43%) Advertising
18 9 (1.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 205 (32.49%) Analyst
2 116 (18.38%) Business Analyst
3 103 (16.32%) Consultant
4 65 (10.30%) Lead
5 61 (9.67%) Senior
6 38 (6.02%) SAP Consultant
7 34 (5.39%) Project Manager
7 34 (5.39%) Technical Analyst
8 28 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (4.12%) Transformation Analyst
10 24 (3.80%) Support Analyst
10 24 (3.80%) Systems Analyst
11 23 (3.65%) Banking Analyst
12 21 (3.33%) QA Leader
12 21 (3.33%) Test Leader
13 20 (3.17%) Transformation Manager
14 18 (2.85%) Tester
15 17 (2.69%) Developer
15 17 (2.69%) Functional Consultant
16 16 (2.54%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.44%) REST
2 27 (4.28%) Playwright
3 25 (3.96%) PySpark
4 24 (3.80%) Middleware
5 21 (3.33%) Pandas
6 13 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (2.06%) RESTful
6 13 (2.06%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (2.06%) Web Services
7 12 (1.90%) Swagger
8 11 (1.74%) OpenAPI
9 10 (1.58%) Flask
10 9 (1.43%) .NET
10 9 (1.43%) XML
11 8 (1.27%) Django
11 8 (1.27%) JSON
11 8 (1.27%) NumPy
11 8 (1.27%) OAuth
11 8 (1.27%) pytest
11 8 (1.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.13%) Onboarding
2 44 (6.97%) Legacy Systems
3 40 (6.34%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.49%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.01%) Data Structures
6 18 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 14 (2.22%) NHS
9 13 (2.06%) Low-Code
10 11 (1.74%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.11%) CMDB
14 7 (1.11%) Derivative
14 7 (1.11%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (0.79%) Replication
15 5 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.54%) Windows
2 12 (1.90%) Linux
3 7 (1.11%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.79%) 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
1 215 (34.07%) Agile
2 194 (30.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 189 (29.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 176 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
5 126 (19.97%) Requirements Gathering
6 118 (18.70%) Migration
7 113 (17.91%) ERP
8 112 (17.75%) Validation
9 97 (15.37%) System Integration Testing
10 92 (14.58%) Test Automation
11 90 (14.26%) User Stories
12 85 (13.47%) Process Improvement
13 81 (12.84%) CI/CD
13 81 (12.84%) DevOps
14 80 (12.68%) Translating Business Requirements
15 78 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 77 (12.20%) Workshop Facilitation
17 75 (11.89%) Business Intelligence
18 72 (11.41%) Data Migration
19 69 (10.94%) AI
Programming Languages
1 121 (19.18%) SQL
2 63 (9.98%) Python
3 36 (5.71%) C#
4 23 (3.65%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.17%) Java
6 19 (3.01%) ABAP
7 12 (1.90%) C++
8 8 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.79%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.79%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.63%) Rust
11 4 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.48%) Perl
12 3 (0.48%) VBA
13 2 (0.32%) Go
13 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.16%) C
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 79 (12.52%) Degree
2 23 (3.65%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.17%) PMI Certification
4 19 (3.01%) ISTQB
5 16 (2.54%) PMP
5 16 (2.54%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (1.58%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.11%) ACCA
7 7 (1.11%) CIMA
7 7 (1.11%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.95%) IIBA
8 6 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 6 (0.95%) SAP Certification
9 5 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.79%) CBAP
9 5 (0.79%) ISEB
10 4 (0.63%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (18.70%) QA
2 75 (11.89%) Data Quality
3 51 (8.08%) GDPR
4 33 (5.23%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.17%) PMO
6 15 (2.38%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.38%) SLA
7 13 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (1.11%) IFRS
10 6 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.95%) GAAP
11 5 (0.79%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.79%) TickIT
11 5 (0.79%) WCAG
12 4 (0.63%) HL7
12 4 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.32%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 20 (3.17%) Docker
2 9 (1.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.63%) Firmware
3 4 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.54%) 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
1 109 (17.27%) SAP
2 101 (16.01%) Microsoft
3 77 (12.20%) Oracle
4 27 (4.28%) ServiceNow
5 26 (4.12%) Red Hat
5 26 (4.12%) Salesforce
6 13 (2.06%) Intapp
7 10 (1.58%) Ariba
7 10 (1.58%) FIS
7 10 (1.58%) Sage
8 9 (1.43%) ION Trading
8 9 (1.43%) OpenText
9 8 (1.27%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 8 (1.27%) UiPath
9 8 (1.27%) Xero
10 7 (1.11%) Databricks
10 7 (1.11%) IFS
10 7 (1.11%) iManage
10 7 (1.11%) MuleSoft