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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 353 275
Rank change year-on-year +100 -78 +13
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 462 356 662
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.81% 0.77% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.84% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 278 187 543
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,788 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,560 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +0.10% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £74,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +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 45,554 42,250 57,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.09% 91.84% 88.38%
Number of salaries quoted 27,623 20,609 45,599
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +11.71% -11.20%
75th Percentile £77,424 £81,250 £75,772
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 4 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 4 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 +86 191 £62,500 -16.67% 156
South East +104 126 £42,500 -23.92% 101
Midlands +27 68 £42,500 -15.00% 39
West Midlands +35 45 £44,543 -13.50% 29
North of England -60 31 £55,000 - 49
East Midlands +10 23 £40,000 +23.08% 10
South West +6 22 £47,500 +11.76% 7
Yorkshire -14 15 £57,500 +77.00% 20
North West -44 11 £45,000 -30.77% 28
East of England +13 10 £55,000 +35.80% 17
North East -7 5 £41,000 -30.21% 1
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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 14 (3.03%) Tomcat
2 14 (3.03%) WebSphere
2 14 (3.03%) WebSphere Application Server
3 12 (2.60%) Appian
4 8 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.03%) MS Visio
4 12 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) Trello
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 77 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.16%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (0.87%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 4 (0.87%) SAP EWM
5 3 (0.65%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.65%) Endur
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.65%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.65%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.65%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.65%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.65%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.43%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.43%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.43%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.43%) SAP WM
6 2 (0.43%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 100 (21.65%) Power Platform
2 63 (13.64%) Azure
3 35 (7.58%) Dynamics 365
4 33 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (5.84%) SaaS
6 26 (5.63%) Power Automate
7 22 (4.76%) AWS
8 16 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (2.60%) Anthropic Claude
9 12 (2.60%) Azure AI
10 11 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
11 10 (2.16%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (1.95%) Serverless
13 8 (1.73%) Amazon S3
14 6 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.08%) Lucidchart
15 5 (1.08%) Route 53
15 5 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
15 5 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.03%) SSL
2 10 (2.16%) VPN
3 3 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.43%) GSM
4 2 (0.43%) LAN
4 2 (0.43%) LTE
4 2 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.22%) DMZ
5 1 (0.22%) HTTP
5 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.22%) STUN
5 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.22%) VLAN
5 1 (0.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.17%) Power BI
2 32 (6.93%) SQL Server
3 18 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.46%) DB2
5 12 (2.60%) Pinecone
6 9 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 8 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.52%) MySQL
8 7 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (1.30%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (1.08%) Metadata
11 4 (0.87%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.87%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
13 2 (0.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 2 (0.43%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.22%) Cognos Framework Manager
Development Applications
1 58 (12.55%) JIRA
2 15 (3.25%) Selenium
3 12 (2.60%) MLflow
4 11 (2.38%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.30%) Postman
5 6 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.65%) Git
6 3 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.43%) GitLab
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.43%) Ranorex
7 2 (0.43%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.43%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.22%) Appium
8 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.22%) MSI
8 1 (0.22%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.22%) Zephyr
General
1 229 (49.57%) Finance
2 214 (46.32%) Social Skills
3 97 (21.00%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (17.32%) Manufacturing
5 63 (13.64%) Marketing
6 36 (7.79%) Banking
7 19 (4.11%) Retail
8 16 (3.46%) Law
8 16 (3.46%) Legal
9 14 (3.03%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.38%) Investment Banking
11 10 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.73%) Advertising
13 8 (1.73%) Back Office
13 8 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.73%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.30%) Billing
14 6 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (49.57%) Analyst
2 95 (20.56%) Senior
3 86 (18.61%) Business Analyst
4 80 (17.32%) Senior Analyst
5 53 (11.47%) SAP Analyst
6 51 (11.04%) Lead
7 37 (8.01%) Developer
8 30 (6.49%) Applications Support
9 29 (6.28%) Automation Developer
10 28 (6.06%) Support Analyst
11 26 (5.63%) Consultant
12 21 (4.55%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
12 21 (4.55%) Test Leader
13 20 (4.33%) Power Platform Developer
14 17 (3.68%) Senior Business Analyst
14 17 (3.68%) Systems Analyst
15 16 (3.46%) Automation Analyst
16 15 (3.25%) IT Analyst
16 15 (3.25%) Project Manager
16 15 (3.25%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.68%) REST
2 15 (3.25%) OpenAPI
2 15 (3.25%) Swagger
3 14 (3.03%) LAPP Stack
3 14 (3.03%) LDAP
3 14 (3.03%) WebSphere MQ
4 12 (2.60%) Django
4 12 (2.60%) Faiss
4 12 (2.60%) Flask
4 12 (2.60%) Hugging Face
4 12 (2.60%) JWT
4 12 (2.60%) NumPy
4 12 (2.60%) OAuth
4 12 (2.60%) Pandas
4 12 (2.60%) pytest
4 12 (2.60%) PyTorch
4 12 (2.60%) RESTful
4 12 (2.60%) scikit-learn
4 12 (2.60%) TensorFlow
4 12 (2.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.74%) Greenfield Project
2 29 (6.28%) Management Information System
3 26 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 21 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
6 19 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.25%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.25%) NHS
8 11 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.30%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.08%) CMDB
11 4 (0.87%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.87%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.06%) Windows
2 26 (5.63%) Linux
3 15 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (3.03%) Unix
5 4 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.22%) Android
6 1 (0.22%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (38.31%) Agile
2 125 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 95 (20.56%) Roadmaps
5 76 (16.45%) Requirements Gathering
6 71 (15.37%) AI
7 70 (15.15%) Change Management
7 70 (15.15%) Translating Business Requirements
8 68 (14.72%) Validation
9 67 (14.50%) Logistics
10 66 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 64 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 61 (13.20%) Business Intelligence
13 60 (12.99%) Business Analysis
14 59 (12.77%) Data Management
15 57 (12.34%) ERP
15 57 (12.34%) Intelligent Automation
15 57 (12.34%) Workshop Facilitation
16 55 (11.90%) Incident Management
17 53 (11.47%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 131 (28.35%) SQL
2 38 (8.23%) Python
3 17 (3.68%) JavaScript
4 11 (2.38%) C#
5 9 (1.95%) T-SQL
6 4 (0.87%) TypeScript
7 3 (0.65%) Java
7 3 (0.65%) VBA
8 2 (0.43%) ABAP
8 2 (0.43%) Bash
8 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.43%) Go
9 1 (0.22%) Korn
9 1 (0.22%) PHP
9 1 (0.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (16.67%) Degree
2 23 (4.98%) ISTQB
3 18 (3.90%) AWS Certification
4 14 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 12 (2.60%) Security Cleared
6 11 (2.38%) PMP
7 8 (1.73%) IIBA
7 8 (1.73%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.30%) ISEB
10 5 (1.08%) CBAP
10 5 (1.08%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.65%) CAPM
11 3 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.43%) ACCA
12 2 (0.43%) CIMA
12 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (15.15%) QA
2 26 (5.63%) SLA
3 24 (5.19%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.52%) GDPR
6 6 (1.30%) HL7
7 5 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.65%) IFRS
8 3 (0.65%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.65%) PMO
9 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.43%) PSD2
9 2 (0.43%) WCAG
10 1 (0.22%) FATCA
10 1 (0.22%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 15 (3.25%) Docker
2 4 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.22%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 17 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.43%) Grafana
5 2 (0.43%) Terraform
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
1 103 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 99 (21.43%) SAP
3 45 (9.74%) Blue Prism
4 36 (7.79%) Oracle
5 17 (3.68%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.46%) IBM
7 15 (3.25%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.60%) Automation Anywhere
8 12 (2.60%) OpenAI
8 12 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 12 (2.60%) UiPath
9 7 (1.52%) Workday
10 5 (1.08%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.08%) Ariba
11 4 (0.87%) Anaplan
12 3 (0.65%) Apple
12 3 (0.65%) Concur
12 3 (0.65%) IFS
12 3 (0.65%) iManage
12 3 (0.65%) Okta