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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 369 342
Rank change year-on-year +118 -27 -59
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 623 285 660
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.74% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.79% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 411 188 524
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,950 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £43,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,245 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.61% +13.17% -

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 61,553 36,113 73,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.02% 93.35% 83.76%
Number of salaries quoted 41,006 19,403 54,576
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +109 298 £67,500 -7.85% 125
North of England +26 134 £57,500 -11.54% 55
North West +24 66 £55,000 -16.98% 38
Midlands -19 63 £50,000 +5.26% 34
West Midlands -12 52 £50,000 +5.26% 19
South East +3 50 £52,500 -8.70% 69
Yorkshire -5 50 £82,500 +83.33% 14
East of England -6 32 £50,025 -5.61% 5
South West -44 29 £55,000 +0.66% 12
North East - 18 £41,500 - 3
East Midlands -26 11 £41,250 -41.07% 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 32 (5.14%) Confluence
2 25 (4.01%) Apache
2 25 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.01%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.37%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.44%) Appian
5 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.48%) CMS
6 3 (0.48%) IIS
7 2 (0.32%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 42 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (5.14%) MS Visio
3 24 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 77 (12.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.77%) Dynamics AX
4 10 (1.61%) SAP SD
5 8 (1.28%) Elite 3E
5 8 (1.28%) Sage 50
6 7 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (1.12%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.96%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.80%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.80%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.64%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 4 (0.64%) iTrent
9 4 (0.64%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.64%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.64%) SAP GTS
9 4 (0.64%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.64%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.64%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 114 (18.30%) Azure
2 81 (13.00%) Power Platform
3 65 (10.43%) AWS
4 54 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (8.19%) Dynamics 365
6 35 (5.62%) Power Automate
7 34 (5.46%) SaaS
8 29 (4.65%) Amazon S3
9 28 (4.49%) PowerApps
10 26 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (4.01%) OpenShift
12 19 (3.05%) GCP
13 12 (1.93%) Boomi
14 10 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.44%) Anthropic Claude
15 9 (1.44%) Azure AI
16 8 (1.28%) Azure AKS
16 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (1.28%) Snowflake
17 7 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.12%) VPN
2 5 (0.80%) HTTP
3 2 (0.32%) Intranet
3 2 (0.32%) LAN
3 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.32%) VoIP
3 2 (0.32%) WAN
3 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) FTP
4 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (9.95%) Power BI
2 30 (4.82%) Oracle Database
3 28 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 28 (4.49%) Tableau
4 25 (4.01%) Apache Hive
4 25 (4.01%) Impala
4 25 (4.01%) Parquet
4 25 (4.01%) Spark SQL
5 11 (1.77%) SAP HANA
6 9 (1.44%) Pinecone
6 9 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.44%) SAP BW
7 6 (0.96%) MySQL
7 6 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.96%) Power Query
7 6 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (0.80%) DB2
8 5 (0.80%) Electronic Patient Records
8 5 (0.80%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 88 (14.13%) JIRA
2 34 (5.46%) Git
2 34 (5.46%) Selenium
3 25 (4.01%) IBM UrbanCode
4 24 (3.85%) Cypress.io
5 16 (2.57%) Postman
6 9 (1.44%) MLflow
7 7 (1.12%) GitLab
8 6 (0.96%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.96%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.80%) JUnit
9 5 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.64%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.64%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.64%) TestRail
11 3 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.48%) Gatling
11 3 (0.48%) Ranorex
11 3 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 279 (44.78%) Finance
2 252 (40.45%) Social Skills
3 180 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (11.24%) Law
5 63 (10.11%) Banking
6 57 (9.15%) Legal
7 48 (7.70%) Manufacturing
8 39 (6.26%) Retail
9 36 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (5.78%) Investment Banking
10 30 (4.82%) Public Sector
11 26 (4.17%) Marketing
12 21 (3.37%) Billing
13 16 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.44%) Games
18 8 (1.28%) Advertising
18 8 (1.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 209 (33.55%) Analyst
2 118 (18.94%) Business Analyst
3 105 (16.85%) Consultant
4 66 (10.59%) Lead
5 61 (9.79%) Senior
6 38 (6.10%) SAP Consultant
7 36 (5.78%) Technical Analyst
8 33 (5.30%) Project Manager
9 30 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
10 28 (4.49%) Transformation Analyst
11 23 (3.69%) Banking Analyst
11 23 (3.69%) Systems Analyst
12 22 (3.53%) Support Analyst
13 21 (3.37%) QA Leader
13 21 (3.37%) Test Leader
14 20 (3.21%) Transformation Manager
15 18 (2.89%) Developer
16 17 (2.73%) Functional Consultant
16 17 (2.73%) SAP Manager
17 16 (2.57%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.65%) REST
2 27 (4.33%) Playwright
3 25 (4.01%) PySpark
4 24 (3.85%) Middleware
5 22 (3.53%) Pandas
6 14 (2.25%) RESTful
6 14 (2.25%) Web Services
7 13 (2.09%) SAP Fiori
7 13 (2.09%) Swagger
8 12 (1.93%) OpenAPI
8 12 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
9 11 (1.77%) Flask
10 9 (1.44%) FastAPI
10 9 (1.44%) JWT
10 9 (1.44%) NumPy
10 9 (1.44%) pytest
10 9 (1.44%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.44%) scikit-learn
10 9 (1.44%) TensorFlow
10 9 (1.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.22%) Onboarding
2 43 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 38 (6.10%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.89%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (2.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 14 (2.25%) Low-Code
9 14 (2.25%) NHS
10 11 (1.77%) Cloud Native
11 9 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.28%) Fixed Income
12 8 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.12%) CMDB
13 7 (1.12%) Derivative
14 6 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.41%) Windows
2 13 (2.09%) Linux
3 7 (1.12%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.80%) Unix
5 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (33.71%) Agile
2 188 (30.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 183 (29.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 175 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
5 128 (20.55%) Requirements Gathering
6 117 (18.78%) Migration
7 111 (17.82%) ERP
8 109 (17.50%) Validation
9 94 (15.09%) System Integration Testing
10 92 (14.77%) Test Automation
11 88 (14.13%) User Stories
12 81 (13.00%) CI/CD
12 81 (13.00%) Translating Business Requirements
13 80 (12.84%) DevOps
14 79 (12.68%) Workshop Facilitation
15 78 (12.52%) Process Improvement
16 77 (12.36%) Business Intelligence
17 74 (11.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 71 (11.40%) AI
19 70 (11.24%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 120 (19.26%) SQL
2 61 (9.79%) Python
3 35 (5.62%) C#
4 23 (3.69%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.21%) Java
6 19 (3.05%) ABAP
7 12 (1.93%) C++
8 8 (1.28%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.80%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.80%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.64%) Rust
11 4 (0.64%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.64%) VBA
12 3 (0.48%) Perl
13 2 (0.32%) Go
13 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.16%) Bash
14 1 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 79 (12.68%) Degree
2 23 (3.69%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.53%) PMI Certification
4 18 (2.89%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.73%) PMP
6 16 (2.57%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.12%) IIBA
9 7 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.96%) CBAP
10 6 (0.96%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.96%) SAP Certification
11 5 (0.80%) ACCA
11 5 (0.80%) CIMA
11 5 (0.80%) ISEB
11 5 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.64%) CCA
12 4 (0.64%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (18.14%) QA
2 73 (11.72%) Data Quality
3 51 (8.19%) GDPR
4 33 (5.30%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.21%) PMO
6 15 (2.41%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.41%) SLA
7 12 (1.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 12 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (1.12%) IFRS
9 6 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.80%) GAAP
10 5 (0.80%) HL7
10 5 (0.80%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.80%) TickIT
10 5 (0.80%) WCAG
11 4 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.32%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.32%) PSD2
13 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (3.21%) Docker
2 8 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.64%) Firmware
3 4 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.41%) Terraform
3 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.32%) Ansible
4 2 (0.32%) Grafana
4 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 110 (17.66%) SAP
2 97 (15.57%) Microsoft
3 76 (12.20%) Oracle
4 26 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 26 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 26 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.09%) Intapp
6 10 (1.61%) Ariba
6 10 (1.61%) FIS
6 10 (1.61%) Sage
7 9 (1.44%) Automation Anywhere
7 9 (1.44%) ION Trading
7 9 (1.44%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.44%) OpenText
7 9 (1.44%) UiPath
8 8 (1.28%) Xero
9 7 (1.12%) IFS
9 7 (1.12%) iManage
9 7 (1.12%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.96%) HubSpot