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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 346 315
Rank change year-on-year +65 -31 -3
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 464 298 653
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.69% 0.79% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.84% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 289 177 530
10th Percentile £37,250 £29,750 £37,150
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +8.11% +0.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 52,241 35,401 65,332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.72% 93.58% 86.88%
Number of salaries quoted 32,434 20,236 50,834
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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 +77 214 £62,500 -16.67% 145
Midlands +4 73 £45,000 -12.62% 45
South East +9 62 £42,500 -17.76% 98
West Midlands +15 54 £50,000 -3.75% 27
North of England -69 48 £52,500 +3.45% 47
East of England +8 27 £55,000 - 18
South West -20 27 £47,500 +11.76% 22
North West -46 21 £55,000 -10.25% 31
East Midlands -39 19 £38,750 -13.89% 18
Yorkshire -38 16 £57,500 +77.00% 14
North East -15 11 £47,500 -5.00% 2
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 25 (5.39%) Apache
1 25 (5.39%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (5.39%) Apache Spark
2 24 (5.17%) Confluence
3 12 (2.59%) Appian
4 10 (2.16%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.51%) Tomcat
5 7 (1.51%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.51%) WebSphere Application Server
6 3 (0.65%) CMS
7 2 (0.43%) WordPress
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 44 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (5.39%) MS Visio
3 21 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 33 (7.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.94%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.29%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.86%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.86%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.65%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.65%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.43%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.43%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.43%) SAP PP
8 2 (0.43%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 81 (17.46%) Power Platform
2 79 (17.03%) Azure
3 52 (11.21%) AWS
4 38 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (7.54%) Dynamics 365
6 32 (6.90%) SaaS
7 30 (6.47%) Amazon S3
8 28 (6.03%) Power Automate
9 25 (5.39%) OpenShift
10 16 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (2.59%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (2.59%) Azure AI
11 12 (2.59%) PowerApps
12 11 (2.37%) GCP
12 11 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (1.72%) OCI
14 7 (1.51%) Snowflake
15 6 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (1.29%) Serverless
16 5 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.94%) VPN
2 7 (1.51%) SSL
3 3 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.43%) GSM
4 2 (0.43%) LAN
4 2 (0.43%) LTE
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.28%) Power BI
2 29 (6.25%) Oracle Database
2 29 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.82%) Tableau
4 25 (5.39%) Apache Hive
4 25 (5.39%) Impala
4 25 (5.39%) Parquet
4 25 (5.39%) Spark SQL
5 14 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.59%) DB2
6 12 (2.59%) Pinecone
7 10 (2.16%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.51%) MySQL
9 6 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.29%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.08%) Metadata
11 4 (0.86%) DB2 UDB
11 4 (0.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 71 (15.30%) JIRA
2 28 (6.03%) Git
3 25 (5.39%) IBM UrbanCode
4 23 (4.96%) Selenium
5 18 (3.88%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.59%) MLflow
7 10 (2.16%) Postman
8 5 (1.08%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.65%) GitLab
9 3 (0.65%) JUnit
9 3 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.65%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.43%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.43%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.43%) TestDirector
10 2 (0.43%) TestNG
10 2 (0.43%) TestRail
General
1 192 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 191 (41.16%) Finance
3 133 (28.66%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (14.01%) Banking
5 39 (8.41%) Investment Banking
6 37 (7.97%) Manufacturing
7 35 (7.54%) Law
8 29 (6.25%) Legal
9 25 (5.39%) Public Sector
10 21 (4.53%) Marketing
10 21 (4.53%) Retail
11 19 (4.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.51%) Billing
15 7 (1.51%) Health Technology
16 6 (1.29%) Advertising
16 6 (1.29%) Back Office
17 5 (1.08%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 215 (46.34%) Analyst
2 110 (23.71%) Business Analyst
3 59 (12.72%) Senior
4 54 (11.64%) Lead
5 38 (8.19%) Senior Analyst
6 32 (6.90%) Support Analyst
7 31 (6.68%) Technical Analyst
8 29 (6.25%) Consultant
9 27 (5.82%) Transformation Analyst
10 25 (5.39%) Test Leader
11 22 (4.74%) Applications Support
11 22 (4.74%) Banking Analyst
11 22 (4.74%) Developer
12 20 (4.31%) Project Manager
13 19 (4.09%) Senior Business Analyst
14 16 (3.45%) Systems Analyst
15 15 (3.23%) QA Leader
16 14 (3.02%) Applications Support Analyst
17 13 (2.80%) Automation Engineer
18 12 (2.59%) ERP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.39%) Pandas
1 25 (5.39%) PySpark
2 19 (4.09%) Playwright
3 18 (3.88%) REST
4 16 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (3.23%) OpenAPI
5 15 (3.23%) Swagger
5 15 (3.23%) Web Services
6 14 (3.02%) RESTful
7 12 (2.59%) Django
7 12 (2.59%) Faiss
7 12 (2.59%) FastAPI
7 12 (2.59%) Flask
7 12 (2.59%) Hugging Face
7 12 (2.59%) JWT
7 12 (2.59%) NumPy
7 12 (2.59%) OAuth
7 12 (2.59%) pytest
7 12 (2.59%) scikit-learn
7 12 (2.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.47%) Legacy Systems
1 30 (6.47%) Onboarding
1 30 (6.47%) Product Ownership
2 23 (4.96%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
4 16 (3.45%) Low-Code
5 15 (3.23%) NHS
6 13 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (1.94%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (1.29%) AI Agents
10 6 (1.29%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.29%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.08%) Derivative
11 5 (1.08%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.86%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.74%) Linux
1 22 (4.74%) Windows
2 11 (2.37%) Unix
3 8 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.29%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.22%) Android
6 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (41.81%) Agile
2 117 (25.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 111 (23.92%) Continuous Improvement
4 107 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
5 100 (21.55%) Requirements Gathering
6 99 (21.34%) Validation
7 83 (17.89%) Test Automation
8 80 (17.24%) Change Management
9 76 (16.38%) Roadmaps
10 73 (15.73%) AI
10 73 (15.73%) Migration
11 71 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
12 69 (14.87%) CI/CD
13 61 (13.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 61 (13.15%) User Stories
14 59 (12.72%) Business Analysis
14 59 (12.72%) ERP
15 58 (12.50%) Analytics
16 56 (12.07%) DevOps
17 55 (11.85%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 136 (29.31%) SQL
2 62 (13.36%) Python
3 18 (3.88%) C#
4 16 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.59%) Java
6 8 (1.72%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.51%) C++
8 5 (1.08%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.86%) PowerShell
9 4 (0.86%) Rust
10 3 (0.65%) ABAP
11 2 (0.43%) Bash
11 2 (0.43%) Go
11 2 (0.43%) VBA
12 1 (0.22%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) Korn
12 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (15.30%) Degree
2 22 (4.74%) PMI Certification
3 21 (4.53%) ISTQB
4 19 (4.09%) PMP
4 19 (4.09%) Security Cleared
5 15 (3.23%) SC Cleared
6 11 (2.37%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.94%) IIBA
8 7 (1.51%) ISEB
8 7 (1.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 7 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.86%) CBAP
10 4 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.65%) CAPM
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.43%) CCAB
12 2 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (18.10%) QA
2 49 (10.56%) Data Quality
3 25 (5.39%) Accessibility
4 23 (4.96%) GDPR
5 18 (3.88%) SLA
6 12 (2.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 12 (2.59%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.51%) PMO
8 6 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.29%) HL7
8 6 (1.29%) IFRS
9 5 (1.08%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.86%) GAAP
11 3 (0.65%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.65%) WCAG
12 2 (0.43%) PSD2
12 2 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.22%) GRC
13 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 19 (4.09%) Docker
2 7 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.86%) Firmware
4 3 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (1.29%) Terraform
4 4 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.43%) Grafana
7 1 (0.22%) Ansible
7 1 (0.22%) Control-M
7 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 81 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 65 (14.01%) Oracle
3 56 (12.07%) SAP
4 33 (7.11%) Red Hat
5 21 (4.53%) ServiceNow
6 19 (4.09%) Blue Prism
7 13 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.59%) Automation Anywhere
8 12 (2.59%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.59%) UiPath
9 9 (1.94%) IBM
10 6 (1.29%) Ariba
11 5 (1.08%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.08%) Databricks
11 5 (1.08%) Workday
12 4 (0.86%) Anaplan
12 4 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (0.86%) IFS
12 4 (0.86%) Intapp
12 4 (0.86%) JD Edwards