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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 320 393
Rank change year-on-year +80 +73 -155
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 742 391 429
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 0.89% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.00% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 518 228 313
10th Percentile £33,500 £40,248 £33,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,813 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 69,923 39,061 58,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.56% 89.26% 81.17%
Number of salaries quoted 49,411 22,522 38,211
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +69 308 £70,000 - 345
North of England +86 187 £55,000 +4.76% 90
North West +56 111 £55,000 +5.77% 56
Midlands -3 87 £49,000 -6.67% 65
South East -20 87 £46,500 -19.13% 108
West Midlands +14 70 £50,000 +5.26% 46
Yorkshire +23 59 £82,500 +50.00% 20
East of England -26 33 £45,050 -15.00% 22
South West -55 27 £55,500 -3.48% 32
East Midlands -25 17 £45,000 -35.71% 19
North East -41 17 £41,500 +1.22% 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 37 (4.99%) Confluence
2 26 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.23%) Apache
3 24 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.67%) CMS
6 3 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 48 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (4.18%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 88 (11.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (2.83%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.48%) SAP SD
5 9 (1.21%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (1.08%) Elite 3E
6 8 (1.08%) Sage 50
6 8 (1.08%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.94%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.94%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.94%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.94%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.67%) SAP MM
8 5 (0.67%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.54%) SAP GTS
9 4 (0.54%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 136 (18.33%) Azure
2 100 (13.48%) Power Platform
3 90 (12.13%) AWS
4 75 (10.11%) Dynamics 365
5 57 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (7.14%) SaaS
7 35 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (4.18%) PowerApps
9 26 (3.50%) Amazon S3
10 24 (3.23%) OpenShift
11 23 (3.10%) GCP
12 21 (2.83%) Power Automate
13 13 (1.75%) GitHub
14 11 (1.48%) Boomi
14 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
16 7 (0.94%) Azure AKS
17 6 (0.81%) Asana
17 6 (0.81%) Figma
17 6 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.67%) HTTP
2 2 (0.27%) Intranet
2 2 (0.27%) VoIP
3 1 (0.13%) Broadband
3 1 (0.13%) FTP
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
3 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (10.65%) Power BI
2 29 (3.91%) Oracle Database
3 28 (3.77%) Tableau
4 24 (3.23%) Apache Hive
4 24 (3.23%) Impala
4 24 (3.23%) Parquet
4 24 (3.23%) Spark SQL
5 21 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 13 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (1.48%) SAP BW
8 10 (1.35%) Metadata
8 10 (1.35%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.35%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (0.67%) Power Query
11 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.67%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.40%) DTS
Development Applications
1 91 (12.26%) JIRA
2 45 (6.06%) Git
3 32 (4.31%) Selenium
4 24 (3.23%) IBM UrbanCode
5 20 (2.70%) Postman
6 15 (2.02%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.02%) GitLab
7 12 (1.62%) Jenkins
8 10 (1.35%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.08%) Gatling
10 7 (0.94%) Hudson
10 7 (0.94%) JUnit
11 6 (0.81%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.81%) Zephyr
12 5 (0.67%) JMeter
12 5 (0.67%) TestRail
13 4 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
13 4 (0.54%) SoapUI
14 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.40%) SpecFlow
General
1 349 (47.04%) Finance
2 312 (42.05%) Social Skills
3 236 (31.81%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (11.46%) Law
5 65 (8.76%) Legal
6 62 (8.36%) Banking
7 56 (7.55%) Manufacturing
8 50 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (5.66%) Public Sector
10 39 (5.26%) Retail
11 35 (4.72%) Investment Banking
12 29 (3.91%) Marketing
13 28 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
14 26 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
16 18 (2.43%) Billing
17 14 (1.89%) Aerospace
18 13 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
19 12 (1.62%) General Ledger
20 11 (1.48%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 233 (31.40%) Analyst
2 129 (17.39%) Business Analyst
3 117 (15.77%) Consultant
4 67 (9.03%) Lead
5 60 (8.09%) Senior
6 41 (5.53%) Project Manager
7 37 (4.99%) Support Analyst
8 36 (4.85%) SAP Consultant
9 29 (3.91%) Tester
10 28 (3.77%) Systems Analyst
11 26 (3.50%) Functional Consultant
12 25 (3.37%) Banking Analyst
12 25 (3.37%) Developer
13 24 (3.23%) Applications Support
13 24 (3.23%) Applications Support Analyst
13 24 (3.23%) Transformation Analyst
14 22 (2.96%) Architect
14 22 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (2.96%) Technical Analyst
15 21 (2.83%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.04%) Playwright
2 29 (3.91%) REST
3 24 (3.23%) Middleware
3 24 (3.23%) PySpark
4 16 (2.16%) JSON
4 16 (2.16%) XML
5 15 (2.02%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (1.62%) Pandas
8 11 (1.48%) SOAP
9 9 (1.21%) .NET
10 7 (0.94%) EDI
10 7 (0.94%) HTML
10 7 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
10 7 (0.94%) SAP Core Interface
11 6 (0.81%) React
11 6 (0.81%) Web Services
12 5 (0.67%) ADO
12 5 (0.67%) CSS
12 5 (0.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.36%) Product Ownership
2 42 (5.66%) Onboarding
3 33 (4.45%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (3.50%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.75%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 12 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.48%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.21%) Derivative
13 8 (1.08%) NHS
14 7 (0.94%) CMDB
14 7 (0.94%) e-Learning
14 7 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.94%) SystemC
15 6 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (2.56%) Windows
2 13 (1.75%) Linux
3 6 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.13%) VMS
5 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (37.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 250 (33.69%) Agile
3 241 (32.48%) Problem-Solving
4 237 (31.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 158 (21.29%) ERP
6 150 (20.22%) Validation
7 143 (19.27%) Requirements Gathering
8 134 (18.06%) Migration
9 130 (17.52%) System Integration Testing
10 120 (16.17%) Process Improvement
11 111 (14.96%) User Stories
12 108 (14.56%) Translating Business Requirements
13 104 (14.02%) CRM
14 103 (13.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 102 (13.75%) DevOps
16 97 (13.07%) Business Analysis
17 94 (12.67%) Workshop Facilitation
18 91 (12.26%) Business Intelligence
18 91 (12.26%) Project Delivery
19 89 (11.99%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 147 (19.81%) SQL
2 55 (7.41%) Python
3 33 (4.45%) C#
4 25 (3.37%) Java
5 24 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 19 (2.56%) ABAP
7 13 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.35%) C++
8 10 (1.35%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.94%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.40%) Perl
12 3 (0.40%) Rust
12 3 (0.40%) VBA
13 2 (0.27%) Scala
14 1 (0.13%) C
14 1 (0.13%) PHP
14 1 (0.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 87 (11.73%) Degree
2 48 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 39 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 21 (2.83%) PMI Certification
5 17 (2.29%) PMP
6 15 (2.02%) ISTQB
7 14 (1.89%) ACCA
7 14 (1.89%) CIMA
8 12 (1.62%) SAP Certification
9 11 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.08%) ISEB
11 8 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 8 (1.08%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
12 6 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 4 (0.54%) CCA
14 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (16.85%) QA
2 78 (10.51%) Data Quality
3 60 (8.09%) GDPR
4 23 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.83%) PMO
6 15 (2.02%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (1.75%) SLA
8 12 (1.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (1.21%) GAAP
10 7 (0.94%) WCAG
11 6 (0.81%) IFRS
12 5 (0.67%) TickIT
13 4 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.40%) ISO 20022
15 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 15 (2.02%) Docker
2 8 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) Firmware
3 3 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.02%) Terraform
3 3 (0.40%) Ansible
4 2 (0.27%) Grafana
5 1 (0.13%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 140 (18.87%) Microsoft
2 120 (16.17%) SAP
3 80 (10.78%) Oracle
4 38 (5.12%) Salesforce
5 29 (3.91%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.23%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.56%) Sage
8 14 (1.89%) Intapp
8 14 (1.89%) Workday
9 11 (1.48%) Ariba
9 11 (1.48%) FIS
10 10 (1.35%) ION Trading
11 9 (1.21%) Databricks
11 9 (1.21%) OpenText
11 9 (1.21%) Xero
12 7 (0.94%) Concur
12 7 (0.94%) iManage
12 7 (0.94%) MuleSoft
13 6 (0.81%) Google
13 6 (0.81%) HubSpot