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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 359 280
Rank change year-on-year +117 -79 +15
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 482 355 617
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.87% 0.75% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.82% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 280 186 505
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,750 £38,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,271 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £74,500
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 44,347 43,406 52,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.38% 91.29% 88.76%
Number of salaries quoted 26,763 21,088 41,504
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 25 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 25 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 +90 197 £62,500 -13.79% 86
South East +115 136 £42,500 -23.92% 101
Midlands +29 67 £43,522 -12.96% 46
West Midlands +35 46 £44,772 -11.78% 25
North of England -44 35 £55,000 - 62
South West 0 22 £47,500 +15.15% 26
East Midlands +5 21 £40,000 +23.08% 20
Yorkshire -14 17 £57,500 +77.00% 28
North West -39 12 £40,000 -38.46% 29
East of England +15 11 £55,000 +35.80% 28
North East +2 6 £41,000 -30.21% 5
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 24 (4.98%) Confluence
2 16 (3.32%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.32%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.32%) WebSphere Application Server
3 11 (2.28%) Appian
4 7 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.83%) CMS
6 2 (0.41%) Drupal
6 2 (0.41%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.41%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.11%) MS Visio
4 14 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 90 (18.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (1.87%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.83%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.83%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.62%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.62%) Endur
5 3 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.62%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.62%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.62%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.62%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.62%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.41%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.41%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.41%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.41%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.41%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 103 (21.37%) Power Platform
2 68 (14.11%) Azure
3 35 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (7.26%) Dynamics 365
4 27 (5.60%) SaaS
5 25 (5.19%) Power Automate
6 23 (4.77%) AWS
7 17 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (2.49%) PowerApps
9 11 (2.28%) Anthropic Claude
9 11 (2.28%) Azure AI
9 11 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.07%) Serverless
11 9 (1.87%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
13 6 (1.24%) Snowflake
13 6 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.32%) SSL
2 12 (2.49%) VPN
3 3 (0.62%) DMZ
3 3 (0.62%) STUN
3 3 (0.62%) VLAN
3 3 (0.62%) VoIP
3 3 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.41%) GSM
4 2 (0.41%) LAN
4 2 (0.41%) LTE
4 2 (0.41%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.21%) RFID
5 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (9.54%) Power BI
2 34 (7.05%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.53%) DB2
5 11 (2.28%) Pinecone
5 11 (2.28%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (1.87%) Metadata
8 7 (1.45%) MySQL
8 7 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.24%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.83%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.62%) Tableau
12 2 (0.41%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.41%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 60 (12.45%) JIRA
2 17 (3.53%) Selenium
3 13 (2.70%) Cypress.io
4 11 (2.28%) MLflow
5 8 (1.66%) Postman
6 6 (1.24%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.04%) Git
8 3 (0.62%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.41%) GitLab
9 2 (0.41%) Grunt
9 2 (0.41%) gulp
9 2 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.41%) Ranorex
9 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.41%) TestDirector
9 2 (0.41%) webpack
10 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.21%) MSI
10 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 246 (51.04%) Finance
2 232 (48.13%) Social Skills
3 100 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (18.88%) Manufacturing
5 76 (15.77%) Marketing
6 41 (8.51%) Banking
7 20 (4.15%) Retail
8 19 (3.94%) Legal
9 18 (3.73%) Law
10 14 (2.90%) Public Sector
11 13 (2.70%) Investment Banking
12 12 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.66%) Advertising
14 8 (1.66%) Back Office
14 8 (1.66%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.24%) Billing
15 6 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 235 (48.76%) Analyst
2 106 (21.99%) Senior
3 92 (19.09%) Senior Analyst
4 82 (17.01%) Business Analyst
5 65 (13.49%) SAP Analyst
6 52 (10.79%) Lead
7 40 (8.30%) Developer
8 35 (7.26%) Applications Support
9 29 (6.02%) Automation Developer
10 27 (5.60%) Support Analyst
11 24 (4.98%) Consultant
12 22 (4.56%) Test Leader
13 21 (4.36%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
14 20 (4.15%) Power Platform Developer
15 17 (3.53%) Senior Business Analyst
16 16 (3.32%) Automation Analyst
17 15 (3.11%) Linux Support
17 15 (3.11%) Project Manager
17 15 (3.11%) Systems Analyst
18 14 (2.90%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.53%) REST
2 16 (3.32%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (3.32%) LDAP
2 16 (3.32%) WebSphere MQ
3 14 (2.90%) OpenAPI
3 14 (2.90%) Swagger
4 13 (2.70%) RESTful
5 11 (2.28%) Django
5 11 (2.28%) Faiss
5 11 (2.28%) FastAPI
5 11 (2.28%) Flask
5 11 (2.28%) Hugging Face
5 11 (2.28%) JWT
5 11 (2.28%) NumPy
5 11 (2.28%) OAuth
5 11 (2.28%) Oracle Fusion
5 11 (2.28%) PyTorch
5 11 (2.28%) scikit-learn
5 11 (2.28%) TensorFlow
5 11 (2.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.54%) Greenfield Project
2 30 (6.22%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.77%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (4.77%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.90%) Low-Code
6 14 (2.90%) NHS
7 13 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.24%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.24%) CMDB
9 6 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.24%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.24%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.04%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.85%) Windows
2 31 (6.43%) Linux
3 17 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (3.32%) Unix
5 6 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.62%) Debian
9 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (37.34%) Agile
2 141 (29.25%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (21.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 95 (19.71%) Roadmaps
5 80 (16.60%) Translating Business Requirements
6 77 (15.98%) Logistics
7 74 (15.35%) Requirements Gathering
8 72 (14.94%) AI
9 70 (14.52%) Change Management
9 70 (14.52%) Data Management
10 67 (13.90%) Test Automation
11 66 (13.69%) Incident Management
11 66 (13.69%) Validation
12 64 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 62 (12.86%) Business Analysis
14 60 (12.45%) Business Intelligence
14 60 (12.45%) Impact Analysis
14 60 (12.45%) Quality Management
15 59 (12.24%) Architectural Design
15 59 (12.24%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 134 (27.80%) SQL
2 42 (8.71%) Python
3 21 (4.36%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.49%) C#
5 10 (2.07%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.83%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (0.62%) Java
7 3 (0.62%) VBA
8 2 (0.41%) Bash
8 2 (0.41%) Go
9 1 (0.21%) ABAP
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 79 (16.39%) Degree
2 26 (5.39%) ISTQB
3 20 (4.15%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.32%) ITIL Certification
5 14 (2.90%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.70%) Security Cleared
7 11 (2.28%) PMP
8 9 (1.87%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.66%) IIBA
10 7 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (1.24%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.24%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.24%) ISEB
12 5 (1.04%) CBAP
13 3 (0.62%) CAPM
13 3 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.62%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (14.73%) QA
2 28 (5.81%) SLA
3 26 (5.39%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.45%) GDPR
6 6 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.24%) HL7
7 3 (0.62%) IFRS
7 3 (0.62%) IFRS 17
7 3 (0.62%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.62%) PMO
8 2 (0.41%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.41%) PSD2
9 1 (0.21%) EMIR
9 1 (0.21%) GAAP
9 1 (0.21%) GRC
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (2.90%) Docker
2 4 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.62%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 16 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.41%) Grafana
5 2 (0.41%) 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
1 111 (23.03%) SAP
2 107 (22.20%) Microsoft
3 45 (9.34%) Blue Prism
4 37 (7.68%) Oracle
5 18 (3.73%) IBM
5 18 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 17 (3.53%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.90%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.28%) Automation Anywhere
8 11 (2.28%) OpenAI
8 11 (2.28%) UiPath
9 7 (1.45%) Workday
10 5 (1.04%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.04%) Ariba
11 4 (0.83%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.62%) Concur
12 3 (0.62%) Databricks
12 3 (0.62%) IFS
12 3 (0.62%) iManage
12 3 (0.62%) Okta