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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 403 222
Rank change year-on-year +151 -181 +73
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 464 355 737
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.07% 0.58% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.70% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 272 192 512
10th Percentile £36,375 £31,983 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,557 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.83% - +4.55%

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 37,755 50,464 44,293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 87.01% 83.00% 93.79%
Number of salaries quoted 23,331 26,513 33,966
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,627
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,250 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% - -

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +82 175 £62,500 -13.79% 340
South East +125 141 £42,500 -17.28% 268
Midlands +66 63 £42,500 -15.00% 63
West Midlands +53 38 £42,500 -18.89% 46
North of England -27 35 £52,500 -4.55% 36
East Midlands +27 25 £40,000 +23.08% 15
East of England +37 24 £53,000 +36.77% 25
North West -9 20 £45,375 -24.38% 25
South West +40 16 £57,500 +35.29% 20
Yorkshire +5 13 £55,000 +63.00% 7
North East +5 2 £41,000 -34.40% 4
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 (6.90%) Confluence
2 16 (3.45%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.45%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.65%) CMS
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.43%) Drupal
5 2 (0.43%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.22%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (0.22%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 30 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.37%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 85 (18.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.51%) Oracle Cash Management
3 7 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (1.29%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (1.08%) Elite 3E
5 5 (1.08%) Endur
5 5 (1.08%) NetSuite
5 5 (1.08%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (1.08%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.65%) iTrent
7 3 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.65%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.65%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.65%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.65%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 98 (21.12%) Power Platform
2 63 (13.58%) Azure
3 49 (10.56%) Dynamics 365
4 46 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (5.39%) AWS
6 23 (4.96%) Power Automate
7 15 (3.23%) SaaS
8 12 (2.59%) PowerApps
9 10 (2.16%) OCI
10 7 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.51%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 7 (1.51%) Serverless
11 6 (1.29%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (1.29%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.29%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.29%) Route 53
11 6 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.45%) SSL
2 6 (1.29%) VPN
3 5 (1.08%) DMZ
3 5 (1.08%) STUN
3 5 (1.08%) VLAN
3 5 (1.08%) VoIP
4 3 (0.65%) Firewall
4 3 (0.65%) Network Security
5 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.22%) RFID
5 1 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.68%) Power BI
2 19 (4.09%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.45%) DB2
3 16 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (2.37%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.16%) Metadata
6 9 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.08%) Tableau
9 4 (0.86%) Data Mining
9 4 (0.86%) KDB
9 4 (0.86%) Kdb+
10 3 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
11 2 (0.43%) MySQL
11 2 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 71 (15.30%) JIRA
2 11 (2.37%) Selenium
3 4 (0.86%) Git
4 3 (0.65%) Cypress.io
4 3 (0.65%) eCATT
4 3 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (0.65%) Postman
4 3 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.43%) Grunt
5 2 (0.43%) gulp
5 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.43%) webpack
5 2 (0.43%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.22%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.22%) GitLab
6 1 (0.22%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.22%) MSI
6 1 (0.22%) NUnit
6 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 260 (56.03%) Finance
2 225 (48.49%) Social Skills
3 97 (20.91%) Marketing
4 95 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (19.18%) Manufacturing
6 39 (8.41%) Law
7 37 (7.97%) Legal
8 34 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (7.11%) Banking
10 26 (5.60%) Retail
11 20 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (2.37%) Back Office
13 11 (2.37%) Investment Banking
13 11 (2.37%) Public Sector
14 10 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.72%) General Ledger
16 6 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 5 (1.08%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 210 (45.26%) Analyst
2 104 (22.41%) Senior
3 77 (16.59%) Senior Analyst
4 66 (14.22%) Business Analyst
5 63 (13.58%) SAP Analyst
6 47 (10.13%) Lead
7 44 (9.48%) Developer
8 37 (7.97%) Applications Support
9 36 (7.76%) Consultant
10 29 (6.25%) Automation Developer
11 25 (5.39%) Functional Consultant
12 24 (5.17%) Systems Analyst
13 23 (4.96%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
14 21 (4.53%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
15 20 (4.31%) Power Platform Developer
16 18 (3.88%) Support Analyst
16 18 (3.88%) Test Leader
16 18 (3.88%) Test Manager
17 16 (3.45%) Automation Analyst
17 16 (3.45%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.45%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.45%) LDAP
1 16 (3.45%) WebSphere MQ
2 10 (2.16%) .NET
2 10 (2.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (1.94%) HTML
3 9 (1.94%) XML
4 8 (1.72%) CSS
5 6 (1.29%) EDI
5 6 (1.29%) JSON
6 5 (1.08%) ADO
6 5 (1.08%) FreeSWITCH
7 4 (0.86%) Middleware
7 4 (0.86%) Playwright
7 4 (0.86%) REST
8 2 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.43%) HTML5
8 2 (0.43%) RESTful
8 2 (0.43%) SOAP
8 2 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.99%) Greenfield Project
2 35 (7.54%) Management Information System
3 29 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 17 (3.66%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.72%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.51%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.08%) CMDB
11 4 (0.86%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.86%) NHS
11 4 (0.86%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.86%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.86%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.54%) Windows
2 28 (6.03%) Linux
3 16 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (3.45%) Unix
4 6 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.08%) Debian
5 5 (1.08%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (43.53%) Agile
2 142 (30.60%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (18.10%) Roadmaps
4 80 (17.24%) Translating Business Requirements
5 79 (17.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 74 (15.95%) Data Management
7 70 (15.09%) ERP
8 68 (14.66%) Logistics
9 64 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 64 (13.79%) Migration
10 62 (13.36%) Data Collection
10 62 (13.36%) Impact Analysis
10 62 (13.36%) Incident Management
11 59 (12.72%) Quality Management
12 58 (12.50%) Architectural Design
12 58 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
13 57 (12.28%) Change Management
13 57 (12.28%) Decision Quality
13 57 (12.28%) DevOps
13 57 (12.28%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 117 (25.22%) SQL
2 38 (8.19%) Python
3 16 (3.45%) JavaScript
4 14 (3.02%) T-SQL
5 13 (2.80%) C#
6 6 (1.29%) X++
7 5 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.08%) Java
8 4 (0.86%) C
8 4 (0.86%) C++
9 3 (0.65%) PHP
9 3 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.22%) Bash
10 1 (0.22%) R
10 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 78 (16.81%) Degree
2 27 (5.82%) ISTQB
3 19 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (1.51%) ACCA
5 7 (1.51%) CIMA
6 6 (1.29%) DBS Check
6 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.29%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.29%) Security Cleared
7 5 (1.08%) ISEB
8 4 (0.86%) GISP
8 4 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.65%) CBAP
10 2 (0.43%) CFA
10 2 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.22%) IIBA
11 1 (0.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (13.79%) QA
2 28 (6.03%) SLA
3 18 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.37%) GDPR
5 6 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.08%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.65%) MiFID
9 2 (0.43%) EMIR
9 2 (0.43%) PMO
9 2 (0.43%) UCITS
10 1 (0.22%) IFRS
10 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (1.08%) Kamailio
2 3 (0.65%) Docker
3 1 (0.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (1.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.08%) Terraform
3 2 (0.43%) Grafana
3 2 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.43%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.22%) Ansible
4 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.22%) Puppet
4 1 (0.22%) SCCM
4 1 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 121 (26.08%) Microsoft
2 105 (22.63%) SAP
3 45 (9.70%) Blue Prism
4 33 (7.11%) Oracle
5 22 (4.74%) Salesforce
6 20 (4.31%) IBM
6 20 (4.31%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.45%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.08%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.08%) Databricks
8 5 (1.08%) iManage
9 3 (0.65%) DocuSign
9 3 (0.65%) OpenLink
9 3 (0.65%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.65%) Workday
10 2 (0.43%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.43%) FFastFill
10 2 (0.43%) Google
10 2 (0.43%) Infor
10 2 (0.43%) JD Edwards