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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 371 269
Rank change year-on-year +129 -102 +22
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 467 342 541
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.88% 0.71% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.78% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 273 174 449
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,271 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +5.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,530 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% +4.55%

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 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +110 197 £62,500 -10.71% 83
South East +126 137 £42,500 -23.92% 102
Midlands +39 64 £42,500 -13.71% 52
West Midlands +30 43 £42,500 -15.00% 26
North of England -43 30 £53,750 -2.27% 66
East Midlands +1 21 £47,500 +46.15% 26
South West +9 18 £47,500 +15.15% 26
Yorkshire -9 15 £63,750 +96.24% 36
North West -32 11 £37,000 -43.08% 22
East of England +19 10 £55,000 +35.80% 32
North East +9 4 £41,000 -30.21% 8
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 19 (4.07%) Confluence
2 16 (3.43%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.43%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.43%) WebSphere Application Server
3 9 (1.93%) Appian
4 8 (1.71%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.86%) CMS
6 2 (0.43%) Drupal
6 2 (0.43%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.43%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.36%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 82 (17.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (3.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.71%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.07%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.86%) Endur
6 4 (0.86%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.64%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.64%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.43%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.43%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.43%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 101 (21.63%) Power Platform
2 69 (14.78%) Azure
3 39 (8.35%) Dynamics 365
4 36 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (5.14%) SaaS
6 23 (4.93%) Power Automate
7 22 (4.71%) AWS
8 17 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.36%) PowerApps
10 9 (1.93%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.93%) Azure AI
10 9 (1.93%) Serverless
11 8 (1.71%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.71%) OCI
12 7 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.43%) SSL
2 13 (2.78%) VPN
3 4 (0.86%) DMZ
3 4 (0.86%) STUN
3 4 (0.86%) VLAN
3 4 (0.86%) VoIP
4 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.43%) GSM
5 2 (0.43%) LTE
6 1 (0.21%) HTTP
6 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.21%) LAN
6 1 (0.21%) RFID
6 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.21%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (9.21%) Power BI
2 33 (7.07%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.64%) DB2
5 14 (3.00%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.57%) Metadata
7 9 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.93%) Pinecone
8 8 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (1.50%) MySQL
10 6 (1.28%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.86%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.86%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (0.86%) Tableau
12 3 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.64%) Data Mining
12 3 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (11.99%) JIRA
2 15 (3.21%) Selenium
3 11 (2.36%) Cypress.io
4 9 (1.93%) MLflow
5 8 (1.71%) Postman
6 6 (1.28%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.07%) Git
8 3 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.43%) GitLab
9 2 (0.43%) Grunt
9 2 (0.43%) gulp
9 2 (0.43%) Ranorex
9 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.43%) webpack
10 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.21%) JUnit
10 1 (0.21%) MSI
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 247 (52.89%) Finance
2 228 (48.82%) Social Skills
3 99 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (18.63%) Manufacturing
5 76 (16.27%) Marketing
6 41 (8.78%) Banking
7 22 (4.71%) Law
8 21 (4.50%) Legal
9 18 (3.85%) Retail
10 15 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.78%) Investment Banking
13 11 (2.36%) Public Sector
14 10 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
15 9 (1.93%) Back Office
16 7 (1.50%) Health Technology
16 7 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (1.07%) Advertising
19 4 (0.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 223 (47.75%) Analyst
2 102 (21.84%) Senior
3 91 (19.49%) Senior Analyst
4 74 (15.85%) Business Analyst
5 61 (13.06%) SAP Analyst
6 48 (10.28%) Lead
7 42 (8.99%) Developer
8 35 (7.49%) Applications Support
9 29 (6.21%) Automation Developer
10 27 (5.78%) Consultant
11 24 (5.14%) Support Analyst
12 21 (4.50%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 20 (4.28%) Power Platform Developer
14 19 (4.07%) Test Leader
15 16 (3.43%) Automation Analyst
15 16 (3.43%) Senior Business Analyst
15 16 (3.43%) Systems Analyst
16 15 (3.21%) Infrastructure Support
16 15 (3.21%) Linux Support
16 15 (3.21%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.43%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.43%) LDAP
1 16 (3.43%) REST
1 16 (3.43%) WebSphere MQ
2 12 (2.57%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (2.36%) OpenAPI
3 11 (2.36%) RESTful
3 11 (2.36%) Swagger
4 10 (2.14%) Web Services
4 10 (2.14%) XML
5 9 (1.93%) Django
5 9 (1.93%) Faiss
5 9 (1.93%) FastAPI
5 9 (1.93%) Hugging Face
5 9 (1.93%) JSON
5 9 (1.93%) JWT
5 9 (1.93%) NumPy
5 9 (1.93%) OAuth
5 9 (1.93%) pytest
5 9 (1.93%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.85%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (6.42%) Management Information System
3 23 (4.93%) Linux Command Line
3 23 (4.93%) Onboarding
3 23 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.57%) NHS
7 11 (2.36%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.28%) CMDB
9 6 (1.28%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.28%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.07%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.07%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.86%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.86%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.28%) Windows
2 32 (6.85%) Linux
3 17 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.43%) Unix
5 7 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.07%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.86%) Debian
8 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (37.69%) Agile
2 145 (31.05%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (20.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 90 (19.27%) Roadmaps
5 77 (16.49%) Translating Business Requirements
6 73 (15.63%) Logistics
7 70 (14.99%) Data Management
8 69 (14.78%) AI
9 65 (13.92%) Validation
10 64 (13.70%) Change Management
10 64 (13.70%) Incident Management
11 61 (13.06%) Impact Analysis
12 60 (12.85%) Data Collection
12 60 (12.85%) Quality Management
12 60 (12.85%) Test Automation
13 59 (12.63%) Architectural Design
13 59 (12.63%) Business Analysis
13 59 (12.63%) ERP
13 59 (12.63%) Requirements Gathering
13 59 (12.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 134 (28.69%) SQL
2 42 (8.99%) Python
3 21 (4.50%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.78%) C#
5 11 (2.36%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.86%) Java
7 3 (0.64%) VBA
8 2 (0.43%) Bash
8 2 (0.43%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.21%) Korn
9 1 (0.21%) PHP
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.21%) R
9 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (16.49%) Degree
2 29 (6.21%) ISTQB
3 19 (4.07%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.43%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (2.57%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.36%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (1.71%) PMP
7 8 (1.71%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.50%) IIBA
9 6 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.28%) ISEB
10 5 (1.07%) CBAP
11 4 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.86%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.43%) CAPM
13 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (13.28%) QA
2 30 (6.42%) Data Quality
3 27 (5.78%) SLA
4 11 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.28%) HL7
7 5 (1.07%) GDPR
8 4 (0.86%) ISO 9001
8 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.43%) PMO
9 2 (0.43%) PSD2
10 1 (0.21%) EMIR
10 1 (0.21%) FATCA
10 1 (0.21%) GAAP
10 1 (0.21%) IFRS
10 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (2.14%) Docker
2 4 (0.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.86%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 12 (2.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Terraform
6 1 (0.21%) Ansible
6 1 (0.21%) Control-M
6 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Puppet
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 109 (23.34%) Microsoft
2 101 (21.63%) SAP
3 45 (9.64%) Blue Prism
4 40 (8.57%) Oracle
5 18 (3.85%) IBM
5 18 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.64%) Red Hat
7 14 (3.00%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.93%) Automation Anywhere
8 9 (1.93%) OpenAI
8 9 (1.93%) UiPath
9 7 (1.50%) Workday
10 6 (1.28%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.86%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.86%) Ariba
11 4 (0.86%) Databricks
12 3 (0.64%) Apple
12 3 (0.64%) Concur
12 3 (0.64%) HP
12 3 (0.64%) VMware