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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 349 295
Rank change year-on-year +84 -54 0
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 450 350 640
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.74% 0.80% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.87% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 280 187 527
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,875 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,750 £86,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +11.61% +1.82%

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 48,128 40,388 58,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.10% 92.71% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 29,549 20,191 46,643
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +91 189 £62,500 -16.67% 87
South East +66 107 £42,500 -27.66% 102
Midlands +25 68 £42,500 -16.25% 46
West Midlands +25 45 £45,000 -12.62% 24
North of England -67 35 £52,500 -4.55% 73
South West -10 26 £47,500 -2.56% 16
East Midlands -8 23 £38,750 -8.82% 22
North West -54 16 £50,750 -21.92% 45
Yorkshire -29 13 £57,500 +77.00% 24
East of England +14 12 £55,000 +15.18% 23
North East -12 6 £46,500 -25.60% 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 25 (5.56%) Confluence
2 12 (2.67%) Appian
3 11 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.44%) Tomcat
3 11 (2.44%) WebSphere
3 11 (2.44%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (0.44%) CMS
4 2 (0.44%) WordPress
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.33%) MS Visio
4 13 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 62 (13.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.22%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.89%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 4 (0.89%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.67%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.67%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.67%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.67%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.44%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.44%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.44%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 100 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 66 (14.67%) Azure
3 37 (8.22%) Dynamics 365
4 33 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (6.00%) SaaS
6 26 (5.78%) Power Automate
7 24 (5.33%) AWS
8 16 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (2.67%) Anthropic Claude
9 12 (2.67%) Azure AI
10 11 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (2.44%) PowerApps
11 8 (1.78%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.78%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.78%) Serverless
12 6 (1.33%) OCI
13 5 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.11%) Lucidchart
13 5 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.44%) SSL
2 9 (2.00%) VPN
3 3 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.44%) GSM
4 2 (0.44%) LAN
4 2 (0.44%) LTE
4 2 (0.44%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.67%) Power BI
2 30 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (2.89%) DB2
5 12 (2.67%) Pinecone
6 9 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.56%) MySQL
8 7 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.33%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (1.11%) Metadata
10 5 (1.11%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.89%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.22%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 60 (13.33%) JIRA
2 20 (4.44%) Selenium
3 15 (3.33%) Cypress.io
4 12 (2.67%) MLflow
5 6 (1.33%) Postman
6 4 (0.89%) Git
7 3 (0.67%) JUnit
7 3 (0.67%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.44%) GitLab
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.44%) Ranorex
8 2 (0.44%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.44%) TestDirector
8 2 (0.44%) TestNG
8 2 (0.44%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.22%) LSMW
9 1 (0.22%) MSI
9 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 209 (46.44%) Finance
2 203 (45.11%) Social Skills
3 100 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (14.67%) Manufacturing
5 51 (11.33%) Marketing
6 37 (8.22%) Banking
7 20 (4.44%) Law
8 16 (3.56%) Public Sector
9 15 (3.33%) Legal
9 15 (3.33%) Retail
10 13 (2.89%) Investment Banking
11 12 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.78%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.56%) Advertising
14 7 (1.56%) Billing
15 6 (1.33%) Back Office
15 6 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 218 (48.44%) Analyst
2 86 (19.11%) Business Analyst
3 84 (18.67%) Senior
4 68 (15.11%) Senior Analyst
5 48 (10.67%) Lead
6 41 (9.11%) SAP Analyst
7 39 (8.67%) Developer
8 30 (6.67%) Support Analyst
9 29 (6.44%) Automation Developer
10 27 (6.00%) Consultant
11 25 (5.56%) Applications Support
12 23 (5.11%) Test Leader
13 21 (4.67%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
14 20 (4.44%) Power Platform Developer
15 19 (4.22%) Technical Analyst
16 18 (4.00%) Senior Business Analyst
17 16 (3.56%) Automation Analyst
17 16 (3.56%) Systems Analyst
18 14 (3.11%) Project Manager
18 14 (3.11%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.78%) REST
2 15 (3.33%) OpenAPI
2 15 (3.33%) Swagger
3 14 (3.11%) Web Services
4 13 (2.89%) Pandas
4 13 (2.89%) Playwright
4 13 (2.89%) RESTful
5 12 (2.67%) Django
5 12 (2.67%) Faiss
5 12 (2.67%) FastAPI
5 12 (2.67%) Flask
5 12 (2.67%) Hugging Face
5 12 (2.67%) JWT
5 12 (2.67%) NumPy
5 12 (2.67%) OAuth
5 12 (2.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 12 (2.67%) pytest
5 12 (2.67%) PyTorch
5 12 (2.67%) scikit-learn
5 12 (2.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 23 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (5.11%) Management Information System
4 22 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 19 (4.22%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (3.56%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.33%) NHS
8 7 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.33%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.11%) CMDB
10 5 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (0.89%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.33%) Windows
2 23 (5.11%) Linux
3 13 (2.89%) Unix
4 12 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (40.00%) Agile
2 122 (27.11%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 95 (21.11%) Roadmaps
5 85 (18.89%) Requirements Gathering
6 76 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
6 76 (16.89%) Validation
7 74 (16.44%) Change Management
8 73 (16.22%) Test Automation
9 71 (15.78%) AI
10 61 (13.56%) Business Intelligence
11 60 (13.33%) Migration
11 60 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
12 57 (12.67%) Intelligent Automation
13 54 (12.00%) Business Analysis
13 54 (12.00%) Logistics
14 53 (11.78%) ERP
14 53 (11.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 53 (11.78%) Workshop Facilitation
15 46 (10.22%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 132 (29.33%) SQL
2 38 (8.44%) Python
3 17 (3.78%) C#
3 17 (3.78%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.56%) T-SQL
5 6 (1.33%) Java
6 5 (1.11%) TypeScript
7 4 (0.89%) C++
8 3 (0.67%) VBA
9 2 (0.44%) ABAP
9 2 (0.44%) Bash
9 2 (0.44%) Go
9 2 (0.44%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.44%) Rust
10 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.22%) Korn
10 1 (0.22%) PHP
10 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (15.33%) Degree
2 20 (4.44%) ISTQB
3 18 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.33%) AWS Certification
4 15 (3.33%) PMP
5 14 (3.11%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (2.22%) SC Cleared
8 8 (1.78%) IIBA
9 7 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.56%) ISEB
10 6 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (1.11%) CBAP
11 5 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.67%) CAPM
13 3 (0.67%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.44%) ACCA
14 2 (0.44%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (16.89%) QA
2 24 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.89%) SLA
4 19 (4.22%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.22%) GDPR
6 6 (1.33%) HL7
7 4 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.89%) IFRS
8 3 (0.67%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.67%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.67%) PMO
9 2 (0.44%) GAAP
9 2 (0.44%) PSD2
9 2 (0.44%) WCAG
10 1 (0.22%) FATCA
10 1 (0.22%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) MiFID
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.22%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (3.56%) Docker
2 5 (1.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (0.89%) Terraform
4 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.22%) Ansible
6 1 (0.22%) Control-M
6 1 (0.22%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Puppet
6 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 104 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 82 (18.22%) SAP
3 46 (10.22%) Blue Prism
4 38 (8.44%) Oracle
5 17 (3.78%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.89%) IBM
6 13 (2.89%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.67%) Automation Anywhere
7 12 (2.67%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.67%) UiPath
8 11 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.33%) Workday
10 5 (1.11%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.11%) Ariba
11 4 (0.89%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.67%) Concur
12 3 (0.67%) Databricks
12 3 (0.67%) HP
12 3 (0.67%) IFS
12 3 (0.67%) Okta