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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 289 400
Rank change year-on-year +31 +111 -169
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 734 435 404
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 1.00% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 1.13% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 524 252 250
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,406 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,500 £82,050
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%

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 73,237 38,492 56,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.14% 88.72% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 52,109 22,148 32,740
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,863
25th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +49 290 £70,000 +7.69% 349
North of England +83 198 £55,000 +4.76% 80
North West +78 125 £55,000 +10.00% 54
South East -53 100 £45,000 -5.26% 126
Midlands -23 84 £47,000 -10.48% 69
West Midlands 0 67 £49,000 +3.16% 50
Yorkshire +1 57 £83,750 +48.89% 16
South West -62 27 £55,500 -3.48% 26
East of England -41 22 £45,050 -15.00% 30
East Midlands -39 17 £45,000 -21.74% 19
North East -46 16 £41,500 +1.22% 10
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 45 (6.13%) Confluence
2 26 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.68%) CMS
5 3 (0.41%) IIS
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 52 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.72%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.27%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 91 (12.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (4.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 26 (3.54%) NetSuite
4 11 (1.50%) SAP SD
5 10 (1.36%) Workday HCM
6 9 (1.23%) Dynamics AX
6 9 (1.23%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (1.09%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (1.09%) Sage 50
7 8 (1.09%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.95%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.95%) SAP FI
8 7 (0.95%) SAP FI/CO
9 6 (0.82%) Elite 3E
10 5 (0.68%) Unit4 Business World
11 4 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
11 4 (0.54%) SAP MM
11 4 (0.54%) SAP PP
11 4 (0.54%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 143 (19.48%) Azure
2 105 (14.31%) Power Platform
3 89 (12.13%) Dynamics 365
4 63 (8.58%) AWS
5 59 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
6 58 (7.90%) SaaS
7 35 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (3.81%) PowerApps
9 19 (2.59%) GCP
9 19 (2.59%) Power Automate
10 14 (1.91%) GitHub
11 12 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
12 11 (1.50%) Boomi
12 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (0.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 7 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (0.82%) Azure AKS
14 6 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.68%) HTTP
2 2 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (0.27%) Intranet
2 2 (0.27%) SAN
2 2 (0.27%) VoIP
3 1 (0.14%) Broadband
3 1 (0.14%) FTP
3 1 (0.14%) Network Security
3 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (11.04%) Power BI
2 18 (2.45%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.50%) SAP BW
5 10 (1.36%) Metadata
5 10 (1.36%) Relational Database
5 10 (1.36%) SAP HANA
6 8 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.82%) Oracle Database
7 6 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (0.54%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.41%) DTS
10 3 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.41%) Power Query
10 3 (0.41%) Star Schema
11 2 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.27%) EDRMS
11 2 (0.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 94 (12.81%) JIRA
2 31 (4.22%) Selenium
3 24 (3.27%) Git
4 20 (2.72%) Postman
5 17 (2.32%) GitLab
6 13 (1.77%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.77%) Jenkins
7 12 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.09%) Gatling
8 8 (1.09%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.95%) Hudson
9 7 (0.95%) JMeter
9 7 (0.95%) JUnit
10 5 (0.68%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.68%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.54%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.54%) TestRail
12 3 (0.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 343 (46.73%) Finance
2 326 (44.41%) Social Skills
3 219 (29.84%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (11.72%) Law
5 62 (8.45%) Manufacturing
6 53 (7.22%) Legal
7 51 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (5.99%) Retail
9 41 (5.59%) Public Sector
10 34 (4.63%) Marketing
11 33 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
12 32 (4.36%) Banking
13 31 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
14 26 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
15 21 (2.86%) Billing
16 15 (2.04%) General Ledger
17 12 (1.63%) Aerospace
18 11 (1.50%) Advertising
18 11 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
18 11 (1.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 207 (28.20%) Analyst
2 130 (17.71%) Consultant
3 117 (15.94%) Business Analyst
4 66 (8.99%) Lead
5 61 (8.31%) Senior
6 40 (5.45%) Support Analyst
7 39 (5.31%) SAP Consultant
8 38 (5.18%) Project Manager
9 33 (4.50%) Systems Analyst
10 30 (4.09%) Tester
11 29 (3.95%) Functional Consultant
12 23 (3.13%) Architect
12 23 (3.13%) Developer
12 23 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 22 (3.00%) Systems Support
14 20 (2.72%) Applications Support
14 20 (2.72%) Applications Support Analyst
14 20 (2.72%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
14 20 (2.72%) Product Owner
14 20 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.22%) REST
2 29 (3.95%) Playwright
3 24 (3.27%) Middleware
4 21 (2.86%) SAP Fiori
5 18 (2.45%) JSON
6 17 (2.32%) XML
7 14 (1.91%) Terraform
8 13 (1.77%) SOAP
9 10 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (1.09%) .NET
11 7 (0.95%) ADO
11 7 (0.95%) HTML
11 7 (0.95%) Lightning Web Components
11 7 (0.95%) SAP Core Interface
12 6 (0.82%) React
13 5 (0.68%) AngularJS
13 5 (0.68%) CSS
13 5 (0.68%) EDI
13 5 (0.68%) Web Services
14 4 (0.54%) Web Dynpro
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.86%) Product Ownership
2 37 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
3 29 (3.95%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.72%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.04%) Driving Licence
8 12 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.50%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 8 (1.09%) Derivative
10 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (1.09%) NHS
11 7 (0.95%) CMDB
11 7 (0.95%) e-Learning
11 7 (0.95%) Replication
11 7 (0.95%) SystemC
12 6 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.32%) Windows
2 13 (1.77%) Linux
3 3 (0.41%) VMS
3 3 (0.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.14%) Unix
4 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (37.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 269 (36.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 268 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
4 230 (31.34%) Agile
5 173 (23.57%) ERP
6 161 (21.93%) Requirements Gathering
7 150 (20.44%) Validation
8 144 (19.62%) Migration
9 132 (17.98%) System Integration Testing
10 131 (17.85%) Process Improvement
11 110 (14.99%) CRM
12 108 (14.71%) Project Delivery
12 108 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 105 (14.31%) Data Migration
14 103 (14.03%) Business Analysis
14 103 (14.03%) Translating Business Requirements
15 102 (13.90%) DevOps
15 102 (13.90%) User Stories
16 98 (13.35%) Workshop Facilitation
17 93 (12.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 122 (16.62%) SQL
2 29 (3.95%) C#
3 27 (3.68%) Python
4 24 (3.27%) Java
4 24 (3.27%) JavaScript
5 22 (3.00%) ABAP
6 16 (2.18%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.50%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.82%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.68%) C++
10 4 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.41%) Perl
11 3 (0.41%) VBA
12 2 (0.27%) Scala
13 1 (0.14%) C
13 1 (0.14%) PHP
13 1 (0.14%) Ruby
13 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (12.26%) Degree
2 50 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 41 (5.59%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.00%) PMI Certification
5 19 (2.59%) ISTQB
6 17 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.32%) PMP
7 15 (2.04%) ACCA
7 15 (2.04%) CIMA
8 13 (1.77%) SAP Certification
9 10 (1.36%) ISEB
10 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (1.09%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 4 (0.54%) CCA
15 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 3 (0.41%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (17.57%) QA
2 65 (8.86%) Data Quality
3 57 (7.77%) GDPR
4 19 (2.59%) PMO
5 17 (2.32%) Accessibility
6 16 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.63%) SLA
8 7 (0.95%) WCAG
9 6 (0.82%) GAAP
10 5 (0.68%) TickIT
11 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.54%) GRC
11 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.41%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.41%) IFRS
12 3 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.27%) GxP
13 2 (0.27%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (1.63%) Docker
2 5 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.41%) IAG
4 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (2.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.27%) Ansible
3 1 (0.14%) CloudHub
3 1 (0.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 157 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 124 (16.89%) SAP
3 54 (7.36%) Oracle
4 40 (5.45%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.63%) Sage
6 24 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.59%) Workday
8 11 (1.50%) FIS
8 11 (1.50%) Intapp
9 10 (1.36%) Ariba
9 10 (1.36%) Civica
9 10 (1.36%) ION Trading
10 9 (1.23%) Concur
10 9 (1.23%) OpenText
10 9 (1.23%) Xero
11 7 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.82%) Databricks
12 6 (0.82%) Google
12 6 (0.82%) iManage
12 6 (0.82%) Pega