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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 359 337
Rank change year-on-year +99 -22 -30
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 566 299 682
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 0.76% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.82% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 361 194 532
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £71,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £81,925
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 60,747 36,431 71,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.63% 93.15% 85.51%
Number of salaries quoted 38,643 20,635 53,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +93 266 £67,500 -6.90% 157
North of England +6 112 £60,000 +4.24% 63
Midlands -13 65 £52,500 +8.25% 58
West Midlands -6 52 £50,000 +3.09% 37
Yorkshire -16 50 £85,000 +95.64% 24
South East +8 49 £55,000 +11.94% 92
North West -9 47 £59,000 -9.23% 32
East of England -7 30 £55,000 +3.77% 26
South West -43 28 £55,000 +4.76% 25
North East -14 15 £45,250 -9.50% 7
East Midlands -37 13 £55,000 -6.38% 21
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 28 (4.95%) Confluence
2 25 (4.42%) Apache
2 25 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.42%) Apache Spark
3 15 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 12 (2.12%) Appian
5 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.71%) CMS
7 2 (0.35%) IIS
7 2 (0.35%) WordPress
8 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (7.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (5.12%) MS Visio
3 20 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 72 (12.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.94%) Dynamics AX
4 9 (1.59%) SAP SD
5 8 (1.41%) Elite 3E
6 7 (1.24%) SAP MDG
7 6 (1.06%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.88%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.71%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.71%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.71%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.71%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.71%) SAP GTS
9 4 (0.71%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.71%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.71%) SAP Travel Management
9 4 (0.71%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 105 (18.55%) Azure
2 76 (13.43%) Power Platform
3 61 (10.78%) AWS
4 49 (8.66%) Dynamics 365
5 48 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (6.36%) Power Automate
7 30 (5.30%) SaaS
8 29 (5.12%) Amazon S3
9 25 (4.42%) OpenShift
10 20 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
10 20 (3.53%) PowerApps
11 18 (3.18%) GCP
12 16 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (2.12%) Anthropic Claude
13 12 (2.12%) Azure AI
14 8 (1.41%) Boomi
14 8 (1.41%) Snowflake
14 8 (1.41%) SuccessFactors
15 7 (1.24%) Asana
15 7 (1.24%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.41%) VPN
2 5 (0.88%) HTTP
3 2 (0.35%) GSM
3 2 (0.35%) LAN
3 2 (0.35%) LTE
3 2 (0.35%) WAN
3 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.18%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.48%) Power BI
2 30 (5.30%) Oracle Database
3 29 (5.12%) SQL Server
4 27 (4.77%) Tableau
5 25 (4.42%) Apache Hive
5 25 (4.42%) Impala
5 25 (4.42%) Parquet
5 25 (4.42%) Spark SQL
6 12 (2.12%) Pinecone
7 10 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.77%) SAP HANA
8 9 (1.59%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.24%) MySQL
9 7 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (1.06%) Electronic Patient Records
10 6 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.06%) Power Query
10 6 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.88%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 84 (14.84%) JIRA
2 30 (5.30%) Git
2 30 (5.30%) Selenium
3 25 (4.42%) IBM UrbanCode
4 22 (3.89%) Cypress.io
5 12 (2.12%) MLflow
5 12 (2.12%) Postman
6 5 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.71%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.71%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.71%) TestRail
8 3 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.53%) GitLab
8 3 (0.53%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.53%) JUnit
8 3 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.53%) Ranorex
8 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.53%) TestNG
9 2 (0.35%) Eclipse
General
1 235 (41.52%) Finance
2 233 (41.17%) Social Skills
3 171 (30.21%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (11.31%) Banking
5 56 (9.89%) Law
6 50 (8.83%) Legal
7 47 (8.30%) Manufacturing
8 41 (7.24%) Retail
9 35 (6.18%) Investment Banking
10 28 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 26 (4.59%) Public Sector
12 25 (4.42%) Marketing
13 17 (3.00%) Billing
13 17 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
15 14 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.59%) Games
18 8 (1.41%) Advertising
18 8 (1.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 213 (37.63%) Analyst
2 121 (21.38%) Business Analyst
3 84 (14.84%) Consultant
4 62 (10.95%) Lead
5 58 (10.25%) Senior
6 35 (6.18%) SAP Consultant
6 35 (6.18%) Technical Analyst
7 31 (5.48%) Senior Analyst
8 28 (4.95%) Project Manager
9 27 (4.77%) Transformation Analyst
10 24 (4.24%) Support Analyst
11 23 (4.06%) Test Leader
12 22 (3.89%) Banking Analyst
12 22 (3.89%) Systems Analyst
13 17 (3.00%) QA Leader
14 16 (2.83%) Automation Engineer
14 16 (2.83%) Developer
14 16 (2.83%) Senior Business Analyst
15 15 (2.65%) Technical Manager
15 15 (2.65%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.95%) REST
2 25 (4.42%) Pandas
2 25 (4.42%) PySpark
3 23 (4.06%) Playwright
4 21 (3.71%) Middleware
5 17 (3.00%) RESTful
5 17 (3.00%) Web Services
6 15 (2.65%) OpenAPI
6 15 (2.65%) Oracle Fusion
6 15 (2.65%) Swagger
7 14 (2.47%) Flask
8 13 (2.30%) SAP Fiori
9 12 (2.12%) FastAPI
9 12 (2.12%) JWT
9 12 (2.12%) NumPy
9 12 (2.12%) OAuth
9 12 (2.12%) pytest
9 12 (2.12%) PyTorch
9 12 (2.12%) scikit-learn
9 12 (2.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 41 (7.24%) Onboarding
2 40 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
3 35 (6.18%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (3.00%) Low-Code
7 15 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 15 (2.65%) NHS
8 13 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 11 (1.94%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
11 9 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
11 9 (1.59%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.06%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (0.88%) PMI
14 5 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.65%) Linux
1 15 (2.65%) Windows
2 6 (1.06%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.71%) Unix
4 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (35.87%) Agile
2 162 (28.62%) Stakeholder Management
3 156 (27.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 151 (26.68%) Problem-Solving
5 120 (21.20%) Requirements Gathering
6 110 (19.43%) Validation
7 107 (18.90%) Migration
8 92 (16.25%) ERP
8 92 (16.25%) Test Automation
9 88 (15.55%) System Integration Testing
10 83 (14.66%) Business Intelligence
11 82 (14.49%) User Stories
12 80 (14.13%) Translating Business Requirements
13 79 (13.96%) CI/CD
14 77 (13.60%) Workshop Facilitation
15 74 (13.07%) DevOps
15 74 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 71 (12.54%) Business Analysis
17 70 (12.37%) Change Management
18 69 (12.19%) AI
Programming Languages
1 120 (21.20%) SQL
2 66 (11.66%) Python
3 31 (5.48%) C#
4 20 (3.53%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.18%) Java
6 16 (2.83%) ABAP
7 12 (2.12%) C++
8 7 (1.24%) TypeScript
9 6 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.88%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.71%) Rust
11 4 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.53%) Perl
12 3 (0.53%) VBA
13 2 (0.35%) Go
14 1 (0.18%) Bash
14 1 (0.18%) Korn
14 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 75 (13.25%) Degree
2 26 (4.59%) PMI Certification
3 21 (3.71%) ISTQB
3 21 (3.71%) PMP
4 20 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 14 (2.47%) SC Cleared
6 10 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.77%) IIBA
7 8 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.06%) CBAP
8 6 (1.06%) ISEB
8 6 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.88%) SAP Certification
10 4 (0.71%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.71%) CCA
10 4 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.53%) CAPM
11 3 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (18.55%) QA
2 68 (12.01%) Data Quality
3 40 (7.07%) GDPR
4 27 (4.77%) Accessibility
5 17 (3.00%) PMO
6 16 (2.83%) SLA
7 15 (2.65%) HIPAA
8 12 (2.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 11 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (1.24%) IFRS
11 6 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (1.06%) HL7
12 5 (0.88%) GAAP
12 5 (0.88%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.88%) TickIT
13 4 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.53%) WCAG
15 2 (0.35%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.35%) PSD2
16 1 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (3.53%) Docker
2 9 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.71%) Firmware
3 4 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (4.06%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.77%) Terraform
3 6 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.35%) Grafana
4 2 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 99 (17.49%) SAP
2 89 (15.72%) Microsoft
3 75 (13.25%) Oracle
4 26 (4.59%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.71%) ServiceNow
6 20 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 12 (2.12%) Automation Anywhere
7 12 (2.12%) Intapp
7 12 (2.12%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.12%) UiPath
8 10 (1.77%) Ariba
9 9 (1.59%) OpenText
10 7 (1.24%) FIS
10 7 (1.24%) IFS
10 7 (1.24%) Workday
11 6 (1.06%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.06%) iManage
11 6 (1.06%) ION Trading
12 5 (0.88%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.88%) Databricks