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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 382 220
Rank change year-on-year +138 -162 +62
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 475 375 699
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.01% 0.62% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.73% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 270 198 472
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,328 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,932 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% +9.09%

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 39,801 51,328 42,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.92% 85.31% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 24,898 26,791 32,650
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £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% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 27 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 27 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 +92 193 £66,250 -5.36% 115
South East +125 136 £42,500 -15.44% 104
Midlands +60 69 £42,500 -15.00% 24
West Midlands +68 43 £42,500 -18.89% 15
North of England +13 35 £52,500 -4.55% 24
East Midlands +35 26 £53,750 +65.38% 9
East of England +38 18 £51,250 +26.54% 8
North West +15 18 £46,250 -23.55% 17
Yorkshire +7 15 £57,500 +38.55% 7
South West +15 13 £53,500 +25.88% 8
North East +13 2 £41,000 -25.45%
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 26 (5.47%) Confluence
2 16 (3.37%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.37%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.37%) WebSphere Application Server
3 9 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.84%) CMS
5 3 (0.63%) Appian
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.42%) Drupal
6 2 (0.42%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.32%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 86 (18.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.47%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.26%) Oracle Cash Management
4 6 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.05%) Elite 3E
5 5 (1.05%) Endur
6 4 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.63%) iTrent
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.63%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.63%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.63%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.42%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 105 (22.11%) Power Platform
2 67 (14.11%) Azure
3 49 (10.32%) Dynamics 365
4 42 (8.84%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (5.68%) Power Automate
6 24 (5.05%) AWS
7 18 (3.79%) SaaS
8 12 (2.53%) PowerApps
9 11 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.32%) OCI
10 9 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.68%) Serverless
12 7 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 7 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (1.26%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.26%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.37%) SSL
2 6 (1.26%) VPN
3 5 (1.05%) DMZ
3 5 (1.05%) STUN
3 5 (1.05%) VLAN
3 5 (1.05%) VoIP
4 3 (0.63%) Firewall
4 3 (0.63%) Network Security
5 2 (0.42%) GSM
5 2 (0.42%) LTE
6 1 (0.21%) HTTP
6 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.21%) RFID
6 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.21%) Power BI
2 24 (5.05%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.37%) DB2
5 14 (2.95%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (2.11%) Metadata
8 9 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.05%) Tableau
11 4 (0.84%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.63%) KDB
12 3 (0.63%) Kdb+
12 3 (0.63%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.42%) MySQL
13 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 63 (13.26%) JIRA
2 6 (1.26%) Selenium
3 5 (1.05%) Git
4 4 (0.84%) Postman
5 3 (0.63%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.63%) eCATT
5 3 (0.63%) MLflow
5 3 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.42%) GitLab
6 2 (0.42%) Grunt
6 2 (0.42%) gulp
6 2 (0.42%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (0.42%) webpack
6 2 (0.42%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.21%) Appium
7 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 269 (56.63%) Finance
2 239 (50.32%) Social Skills
3 110 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (20.21%) Marketing
5 87 (18.32%) Manufacturing
6 38 (8.00%) Banking
7 33 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (6.32%) Legal
9 29 (6.11%) Law
9 29 (6.11%) Retail
10 21 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.74%) Public Sector
13 12 (2.53%) Investment Banking
14 11 (2.32%) Back Office
14 11 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.26%) General Ledger
17 5 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 5 (1.05%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 221 (46.53%) Analyst
2 102 (21.47%) Senior
3 79 (16.63%) Senior Analyst
4 73 (15.37%) Business Analyst
5 61 (12.84%) SAP Analyst
6 46 (9.68%) Lead
7 44 (9.26%) Developer
8 37 (7.79%) Applications Support
9 34 (7.16%) Consultant
10 29 (6.11%) Automation Developer
11 24 (5.05%) Support Analyst
12 21 (4.42%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
12 21 (4.42%) Systems Analyst
13 20 (4.21%) Functional Consultant
13 20 (4.21%) Power Platform Developer
14 19 (4.00%) Test Manager
15 18 (3.79%) Test Leader
16 17 (3.58%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
17 16 (3.37%) Automation Analyst
17 16 (3.37%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.37%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.37%) LDAP
1 16 (3.37%) WebSphere MQ
2 15 (3.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (2.11%) .NET
3 10 (2.11%) XML
4 8 (1.68%) EDI
4 8 (1.68%) HTML
4 8 (1.68%) REST
5 7 (1.47%) CSS
6 6 (1.26%) JSON
7 5 (1.05%) ADO
7 5 (1.05%) FreeSWITCH
7 5 (1.05%) Middleware
7 5 (1.05%) Playwright
7 5 (1.05%) RESTful
7 5 (1.05%) Web Services
8 3 (0.63%) JWT
8 3 (0.63%) OpenAPI
8 3 (0.63%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.53%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (8.21%) Management Information System
3 30 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 19 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 17 (3.58%) Linux Command Line
6 14 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.47%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.47%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.05%) CMDB
10 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.84%) AI Agents
11 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.84%) NHS
11 4 (0.84%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.63%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.37%) Windows
2 28 (5.89%) Linux
3 16 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (3.37%) Unix
4 5 (1.05%) Debian
4 5 (1.05%) Mac OS
4 5 (1.05%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (41.47%) Agile
2 150 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 88 (18.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 87 (18.32%) Roadmaps
5 80 (16.84%) Translating Business Requirements
6 75 (15.79%) ERP
7 74 (15.58%) Data Management
8 70 (14.74%) Logistics
9 69 (14.53%) Migration
10 66 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (13.68%) Change Management
12 62 (13.05%) Data Collection
12 62 (13.05%) Incident Management
12 62 (13.05%) Requirements Gathering
13 61 (12.84%) Business Analysis
13 61 (12.84%) Impact Analysis
13 61 (12.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 60 (12.63%) AI
14 60 (12.63%) Quality Management
15 59 (12.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (26.32%) SQL
2 42 (8.84%) Python
3 15 (3.16%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.53%) C#
4 12 (2.53%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.05%) Java
6 3 (0.63%) C
6 3 (0.63%) C++
6 3 (0.63%) PHP
6 3 (0.63%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.42%) VBA
8 1 (0.21%) Bash
8 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 87 (18.32%) Degree
2 24 (5.05%) ISTQB
3 20 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.58%) AWS Certification
5 16 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (1.89%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.68%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.26%) ACCA
9 6 (1.26%) CIMA
9 6 (1.26%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.26%) ISEB
10 4 (0.84%) IIBA
10 4 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.84%) PMP
11 3 (0.63%) CBAP
11 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.42%) CFA
12 2 (0.42%) GISP
12 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.63%) QA
2 27 (5.68%) SLA
3 22 (4.63%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.89%) GDPR
5 6 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.05%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.63%) MiFID
7 3 (0.63%) PMO
8 2 (0.42%) EMIR
8 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.42%) UCITS
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (1.05%) Docker
1 5 (1.05%) Kamailio
2 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.05%) Terraform
3 4 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.42%) Grafana
4 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Control-M
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.21%) Puppet
5 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 120 (25.26%) Microsoft
2 105 (22.11%) SAP
3 45 (9.47%) Blue Prism
4 40 (8.42%) Oracle
5 21 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 20 (4.21%) IBM
7 19 (4.00%) ServiceNow
8 16 (3.37%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.26%) Workday
10 5 (1.05%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.05%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.05%) Databricks
10 5 (1.05%) iManage
11 4 (0.84%) Ariba
12 3 (0.63%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
12 3 (0.63%) Concur
12 3 (0.63%) OpenLink
12 3 (0.63%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.63%) UiPath