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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 270 406
Rank change year-on-year +34 +136 -186
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 807 462 368
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 1.07% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.20% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 551 278 211
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,538 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.74% -10.83% -
75th Percentile £76,875 £70,000 £72,125
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%

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 76,540 38,554 54,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.61% 89.02% 82.44%
Number of salaries quoted 53,822 21,790 29,076
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,785 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 7 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 7 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 +14 295 £71,750 +10.38% 612
North of England +92 210 £55,000 +4.76% 153
North West +84 143 £55,000 +4.76% 77
South East -50 123 £45,000 +5.88% 222
Midlands +8 98 £47,000 -1.05% 114
West Midlands -4 72 £47,000 -1.05% 75
Yorkshire +6 52 £82,500 +46.67% 51
South West -58 34 £53,750 -6.52% 67
East of England -33 33 £45,025 -15.05% 54
East Midlands -25 26 £47,500 -13.64% 38
North East -56 15 £32,500 -20.73% 25
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 50 (6.20%) Confluence
2 28 (3.47%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.99%) CMS
4 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.50%) 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%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 58 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.60%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (0.50%) 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 92 (11.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (3.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 28 (3.47%) NetSuite
4 18 (2.23%) Dynamics AX
5 14 (1.73%) Workday HCM
6 9 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (1.12%) SAP SD
7 8 (0.99%) Infor CloudSuite
7 8 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
7 8 (0.99%) Sage 50
7 8 (0.99%) SAP CO
7 8 (0.99%) SAP FI
7 8 (0.99%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
8 7 (0.87%) SAP GRC
8 7 (0.87%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.74%) iTrent
9 6 (0.74%) Unit4 Business World
10 5 (0.62%) SAP PSCD
Cloud Services
1 148 (18.34%) Azure
2 105 (13.01%) Dynamics 365
3 104 (12.89%) Power Platform
4 64 (7.93%) SaaS
5 63 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (7.43%) AWS
7 36 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (2.85%) PowerApps
9 17 (2.11%) SuccessFactors
10 15 (1.86%) GitHub
11 14 (1.73%) GCP
12 13 (1.61%) Power Automate
13 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (0.99%) OCI
14 8 (0.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (0.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 7 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (0.74%) Boomi
16 6 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
17 5 (0.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
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 79 (9.79%) Power BI
2 20 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 16 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.49%) Metadata
6 10 (1.24%) SAP BW
7 9 (1.12%) Oracle Database
7 9 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (1.12%) SAP HANA
8 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.37%) DTS
13 2 (0.25%) EDRMS
13 2 (0.25%) MySQL
13 2 (0.25%) Power Query
13 2 (0.25%) SAP Data Services
13 2 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 108 (13.38%) JIRA
2 31 (3.84%) Selenium
3 23 (2.85%) Git
4 18 (2.23%) GitLab
5 17 (2.11%) Postman
6 12 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 12 (1.49%) Jenkins
7 11 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.87%) Gatling
8 7 (0.87%) Hudson
8 7 (0.87%) Zephyr
9 6 (0.74%) JMeter
9 6 (0.74%) JUnit
10 5 (0.62%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.37%) LSMW
12 3 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.37%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.25%) Eclipse
General
1 372 (46.10%) Finance
2 370 (45.85%) Social Skills
3 230 (28.50%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.16%) Law
4 82 (10.16%) Manufacturing
5 58 (7.19%) Retail
6 55 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (6.44%) Public Sector
8 48 (5.95%) Legal
9 43 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
10 41 (5.08%) Marketing
11 40 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (4.34%) Banking
13 26 (3.22%) General Ledger
14 24 (2.97%) Billing
15 18 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (2.11%) Automotive
16 17 (2.11%) Telecoms
17 15 (1.86%) Military
18 12 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 232 (28.75%) Analyst
2 150 (18.59%) Consultant
3 129 (15.99%) Business Analyst
4 77 (9.54%) Senior
5 70 (8.67%) Lead
6 45 (5.58%) Support Analyst
7 39 (4.83%) Project Manager
8 37 (4.58%) SAP Consultant
9 36 (4.46%) Systems Analyst
10 34 (4.21%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 34 (4.21%) Functional Consultant
11 29 (3.59%) Tester
12 27 (3.35%) Developer
13 23 (2.85%) Applications Support
13 23 (2.85%) Applications Support Analyst
13 23 (2.85%) Architect
14 22 (2.73%) Senior Consultant
15 21 (2.60%) Systems Support
16 19 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
16 19 (2.35%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.97%) REST
2 26 (3.22%) Playwright
2 26 (3.22%) SAP Fiori
3 19 (2.35%) Middleware
4 17 (2.11%) SOAP
5 16 (1.98%) JSON
5 16 (1.98%) XML
6 11 (1.36%) .NET
6 11 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.36%) Terraform
7 8 (0.99%) HTML
8 7 (0.87%) ADO
8 7 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
8 7 (0.87%) React
8 7 (0.87%) SAP Core Interface
9 6 (0.74%) CSS
9 6 (0.74%) EDI
9 6 (0.74%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.74%) SAPUI5
9 6 (0.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.80%) Product Ownership
2 43 (5.33%) Management Information System
3 38 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 26 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (1.86%) Driving Licence
8 14 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.24%) FMCG
10 10 (1.24%) NHS
11 9 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 8 (0.99%) e-Learning
12 8 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.87%) CMDB
13 7 (0.87%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.87%) SystemC
13 7 (0.87%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.74%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.11%) Windows
2 13 (1.61%) 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
1 326 (40.40%) Stakeholder Management
2 310 (38.41%) Continuous Improvement
3 304 (37.67%) Problem-Solving
4 258 (31.97%) Agile
5 198 (24.54%) ERP
6 194 (24.04%) Requirements Gathering
7 179 (22.18%) Validation
8 160 (19.83%) Migration
9 153 (18.96%) Process Improvement
10 139 (17.22%) System Integration Testing
11 131 (16.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 126 (15.61%) Data Migration
13 118 (14.62%) CRM
13 118 (14.62%) Project Delivery
14 116 (14.37%) Translating Business Requirements
15 112 (13.88%) User Stories
16 111 (13.75%) Business Analysis
17 109 (13.51%) DevOps
18 106 (13.14%) Workshop Facilitation
19 90 (11.15%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 135 (16.73%) SQL
2 29 (3.59%) Python
3 27 (3.35%) C#
4 26 (3.22%) ABAP
5 22 (2.73%) Java
6 20 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 16 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.24%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.74%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.50%) 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
1 113 (14.00%) Degree
2 54 (6.69%) Security Cleared
3 45 (5.58%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.85%) ACCA
5 23 (2.85%) CIMA
6 21 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 18 (2.23%) ISTQB
8 16 (1.98%) PMP
8 16 (1.98%) SAP Certification
9 10 (1.24%) ISEB
10 9 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.12%) 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 (0.50%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (17.72%) QA
2 79 (9.79%) Data Quality
3 63 (7.81%) GDPR
4 16 (1.98%) Accessibility
4 16 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.61%) SLA
6 10 (1.24%) PMO
7 7 (0.87%) GRC
8 6 (0.74%) GAAP
8 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.74%) WCAG
9 4 (0.50%) IFRS
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.25%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.25%) GxP
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 11 (1.36%) Docker
2 5 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.50%) IAG
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
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
1 178 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 123 (15.24%) SAP
3 63 (7.81%) Oracle
4 43 (5.33%) Sage
5 42 (5.20%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.47%) ServiceNow
7 26 (3.22%) Workday
8 16 (1.98%) Civica
9 12 (1.49%) Concur
10 10 (1.24%) Google
10 10 (1.24%) Infor
11 9 (1.12%) Intapp
11 9 (1.12%) Xero
12 8 (0.99%) Ariba
12 8 (0.99%) Databricks
12 8 (0.99%) OpenText
13 7 (0.87%) FIS
13 7 (0.87%) iManage
13 7 (0.87%) ION Trading
13 7 (0.87%) YouTube