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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 346 324
Rank change year-on-year +63 -22 -21
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 519 303 694
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.67% 0.81% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.87% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 325 191 547
10th Percentile £38,600 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,375 £45,925
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 58,708 34,771 70,627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.38% 93.06% 85.79%
Number of salaries quoted 36,937 20,617 53,431
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%

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 April 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 April 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 +82 240 £65,000 -8.77% 155
North of England -34 86 £60,000 +18.23% 63
Midlands -20 73 £50,000 -2.91% 55
West Midlands -12 57 £50,000 -3.75% 33
South East -17 49 £55,000 +6.43% 91
Yorkshire -34 37 £85,000 +161.66% 35
North West -36 37 £60,000 -7.69% 24
South West -47 29 £55,000 +10.00% 14
East of England -20 28 £55,000 - 16
East Midlands -57 16 £52,500 +10.53% 22
North East -28 12 £47,500 -5.00% 4
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 27 (5.20%) Confluence
2 25 (4.82%) Apache
2 25 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.31%) Appian
4 11 (2.12%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.96%) CMS
5 5 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.39%) WordPress
7 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 45 (8.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.59%) MS Visio
3 19 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (10.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (2.12%) Dynamics AX
4 7 (1.35%) SAP SD
5 6 (1.16%) Elite 3E
6 5 (0.96%) Oracle Payables
6 5 (0.96%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.96%) SAP PP
7 4 (0.77%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 4 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.77%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.58%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.58%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
8 3 (0.58%) SAP GTS
8 3 (0.58%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.58%) SAP MDG-BP
8 3 (0.58%) SAP Travel Management
8 3 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 96 (18.50%) Azure
2 70 (13.49%) Power Platform
3 55 (10.60%) AWS
4 43 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (8.29%) Dynamics 365
5 34 (6.55%) Power Automate
6 29 (5.59%) Amazon S3
6 29 (5.59%) SaaS
7 25 (4.82%) OpenShift
8 17 (3.28%) GCP
9 16 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (3.08%) PowerApps
10 12 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
10 12 (2.31%) Azure AI
11 10 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (1.54%) Boomi
12 8 (1.54%) OCI
12 8 (1.54%) Snowflake
13 7 (1.35%) Asana
13 7 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.73%) VPN
2 5 (0.96%) HTTP
3 3 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.39%) GSM
4 2 (0.39%) LAN
4 2 (0.39%) LTE
4 2 (0.39%) WAN
5 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.19%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.19%) SSL
5 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.14%) Power BI
2 30 (5.78%) Oracle Database
3 28 (5.39%) SQL Server
4 27 (5.20%) Tableau
5 25 (4.82%) Apache Hive
5 25 (4.82%) Impala
5 25 (4.82%) Parquet
5 25 (4.82%) Spark SQL
6 12 (2.31%) Pinecone
7 11 (2.12%) Relational Database
8 8 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.54%) SAP HANA
9 7 (1.35%) MySQL
9 7 (1.35%) SAP BW
10 6 (1.16%) DB2
10 6 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (1.16%) Metadata
10 6 (1.16%) Power Query
10 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.96%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 79 (15.22%) JIRA
2 30 (5.78%) Git
3 27 (5.20%) Selenium
4 25 (4.82%) IBM UrbanCode
5 18 (3.47%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.31%) MLflow
7 11 (2.12%) Postman
8 5 (0.96%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.77%) JUnit
9 4 (0.77%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.58%) GitLab
10 3 (0.58%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.58%) Ranorex
10 3 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.58%) TestNG
10 3 (0.58%) TestRail
10 3 (0.58%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.39%) Appium
11 2 (0.39%) Jenkins
General
1 215 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 210 (40.46%) Finance
3 158 (30.44%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (12.33%) Banking
5 47 (9.06%) Law
6 42 (8.09%) Manufacturing
7 39 (7.51%) Legal
8 36 (6.94%) Investment Banking
9 35 (6.74%) Retail
10 26 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 26 (5.01%) Public Sector
11 24 (4.62%) Marketing
12 15 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (2.31%) Billing
13 12 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
14 11 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.73%) Games
16 8 (1.54%) Advertising
16 8 (1.54%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 216 (41.62%) Analyst
2 122 (23.51%) Business Analyst
3 56 (10.79%) Senior
4 55 (10.60%) Consultant
4 55 (10.60%) Lead
5 34 (6.55%) Senior Analyst
5 34 (6.55%) Technical Analyst
6 28 (5.39%) Support Analyst
7 27 (5.20%) SAP Consultant
7 27 (5.20%) Transformation Analyst
8 25 (4.82%) Project Manager
9 22 (4.24%) Banking Analyst
10 21 (4.05%) Test Leader
11 18 (3.47%) Senior Business Analyst
12 17 (3.28%) Systems Analyst
13 16 (3.08%) Automation Engineer
13 16 (3.08%) QA Leader
14 15 (2.89%) Technical Manager
15 14 (2.70%) IT Analyst
15 14 (2.70%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.01%) REST
2 25 (4.82%) Pandas
2 25 (4.82%) PySpark
3 20 (3.85%) Playwright
4 19 (3.66%) Middleware
5 17 (3.28%) RESTful
5 17 (3.28%) Web Services
6 16 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (2.89%) OpenAPI
7 15 (2.89%) Swagger
8 12 (2.31%) Faiss
8 12 (2.31%) FastAPI
8 12 (2.31%) Flask
8 12 (2.31%) Hugging Face
8 12 (2.31%) JWT
8 12 (2.31%) NumPy
8 12 (2.31%) pytest
8 12 (2.31%) PyTorch
8 12 (2.31%) scikit-learn
8 12 (2.31%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.13%) Legacy Systems
2 36 (6.94%) Onboarding
3 34 (6.55%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (3.08%) Low-Code
6 15 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 15 (2.89%) NHS
7 12 (2.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 11 (2.12%) Cloud Native
8 11 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.16%) Derivative
11 6 (1.16%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.16%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.96%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.28%) Windows
2 16 (3.08%) Linux
3 6 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.96%) Unix
5 4 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (36.80%) Agile
2 146 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 145 (27.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 126 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
5 118 (22.74%) Requirements Gathering
6 108 (20.81%) Validation
7 93 (17.92%) Migration
8 87 (16.76%) Test Automation
9 80 (15.41%) Business Intelligence
10 77 (14.84%) User Stories
11 75 (14.45%) CI/CD
12 73 (14.07%) Change Management
12 73 (14.07%) ERP
13 72 (13.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 70 (13.49%) Business Analysis
14 70 (13.49%) Workshop Facilitation
15 69 (13.29%) Analytics
16 68 (13.10%) System Integration Testing
17 67 (12.91%) DevOps
17 67 (12.91%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 117 (22.54%) SQL
2 60 (11.56%) Python
3 26 (5.01%) C#
4 17 (3.28%) Java
5 16 (3.08%) JavaScript
6 13 (2.50%) ABAP
7 10 (1.93%) C++
8 8 (1.54%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.96%) PowerShell
10 5 (0.96%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.77%) Rust
12 2 (0.39%) Bash
12 2 (0.39%) Go
12 2 (0.39%) Perl
12 2 (0.39%) VBA
13 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.19%) C
13 1 (0.19%) PHP
13 1 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (13.49%) Degree
2 26 (5.01%) PMI Certification
3 23 (4.43%) ISTQB
4 21 (4.05%) PMP
4 21 (4.05%) Security Cleared
5 16 (3.08%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.93%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 9 (1.73%) IIBA
8 6 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.16%) ISEB
8 6 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.96%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.96%) CBAP
10 4 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.58%) CAPM
11 3 (0.58%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.39%) CCAB
12 2 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (19.08%) QA
2 60 (11.56%) Data Quality
3 31 (5.97%) GDPR
4 27 (5.20%) Accessibility
5 16 (3.08%) PMO
6 14 (2.70%) HIPAA
6 14 (2.70%) SLA
7 12 (2.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.16%) HL7
9 6 (1.16%) IFRS
10 5 (0.96%) GAAP
10 5 (0.96%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.96%) TickIT
11 4 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.58%) WCAG
13 2 (0.39%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.39%) PSD2
14 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (3.85%) Docker
2 8 (1.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.77%) Firmware
3 4 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (4.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.54%) Terraform
3 7 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.39%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) Ansible
7 1 (0.19%) Control-M
7 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 82 (15.80%) SAP
2 75 (14.45%) Microsoft
3 65 (12.52%) Oracle
4 27 (5.20%) Red Hat
5 16 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.31%) Automation Anywhere
6 12 (2.31%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.31%) UiPath
7 10 (1.93%) Ariba
8 9 (1.73%) Intapp
9 7 (1.35%) OpenText
10 6 (1.16%) FIS
10 6 (1.16%) HubSpot
10 6 (1.16%) Workday
11 5 (0.96%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.96%) Databricks
11 5 (0.96%) IFS
11 5 (0.96%) ION Trading
12 4 (0.77%) JD Edwards