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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 378 255
Rank change year-on-year +141 -123 +34
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 475 350 542
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.91% 0.69% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.77% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 273 184 449
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,050
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,396 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year - -0.86% +5.45%

All Process and 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 43,046 45,375 40,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.74% 89.99% 92.72%
Number of salaries quoted 25,692 22,952 31,219
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 +105 205 £63,750 -12.07% 169
South East +115 142 £42,500 -22.17% 165
Midlands +36 64 £42,500 -13.71% 94
West Midlands +43 40 £42,500 -17.47% 51
North of England -25 29 £52,500 -4.55% 123
East Midlands +5 24 £55,000 +69.23% 38
South West +9 14 £53,500 +18.89% 53
Yorkshire +1 13 £63,750 +96.24% 55
North West -14 13 £43,500 -33.08% 62
East of England +22 12 £45,000 +11.11% 71
North East +4 3 £48,000 -18.30% 6
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 22 (4.63%) Confluence
2 16 (3.37%) Tomcat
2 16 (3.37%) WebSphere
2 16 (3.37%) WebSphere Application Server
3 8 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.26%) Appian
5 4 (0.84%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Drupal
6 2 (0.42%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.42%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (2.74%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.42%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 82 (17.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.47%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.26%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.05%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.84%) Endur
7 3 (0.63%) Elite 3E
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.63%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.42%) Bloomberg AIM
8 2 (0.42%) iTrent
8 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.42%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.42%) SAP EWM
8 2 (0.42%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.42%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 106 (22.32%) Power Platform
2 70 (14.74%) Azure
3 48 (10.11%) Dynamics 365
4 40 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (5.89%) Power Automate
6 24 (5.05%) AWS
7 20 (4.21%) SaaS
8 15 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.32%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (2.11%) OCI
10 10 (2.11%) Serverless
11 8 (1.68%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (1.26%) Amazon ECR
13 6 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.37%) SSL
2 11 (2.32%) VPN
3 5 (1.05%) DMZ
3 5 (1.05%) STUN
3 5 (1.05%) VLAN
3 5 (1.05%) VoIP
4 2 (0.42%) GSM
4 2 (0.42%) LTE
4 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.21%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.42%) Power BI
2 30 (6.32%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.58%) DB2
3 17 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.37%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.32%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.11%) Metadata
7 9 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.26%) MySQL
8 6 (1.26%) Pinecone
9 5 (1.05%) Tableau
10 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.84%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.63%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (11.79%) JIRA
2 8 (1.68%) Selenium
3 6 (1.26%) Git
3 6 (1.26%) MLflow
3 6 (1.26%) Postman
4 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.42%) GitLab
7 2 (0.42%) Grunt
7 2 (0.42%) gulp
7 2 (0.42%) webpack
8 1 (0.21%) Appium
8 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.21%) Ranorex
8 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 264 (55.58%) Finance
2 238 (50.11%) Social Skills
3 106 (22.32%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (18.74%) Marketing
5 87 (18.32%) Manufacturing
6 37 (7.79%) Banking
7 28 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (5.89%) Retail
8 25 (5.26%) Legal
9 21 (4.42%) Law
10 17 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
11 16 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.74%) Investment Banking
13 12 (2.53%) Public Sector
14 11 (2.32%) Back Office
15 9 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.26%) General Ledger
18 5 (1.05%) Financial Institution
18 5 (1.05%) Police
Job Titles
1 224 (47.16%) Analyst
2 100 (21.05%) Senior
3 87 (18.32%) Senior Analyst
4 73 (15.37%) Business Analyst
5 61 (12.84%) SAP Analyst
6 44 (9.26%) Developer
7 43 (9.05%) Lead
8 37 (7.79%) Applications Support
8 37 (7.79%) Consultant
9 29 (6.11%) Automation Developer
10 27 (5.68%) Support Analyst
11 21 (4.42%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
12 20 (4.21%) Power Platform Developer
13 19 (4.00%) Functional Consultant
14 18 (3.79%) Systems Analyst
14 18 (3.79%) Test Leader
15 16 (3.37%) Automation Analyst
15 16 (3.37%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 16 (3.37%) Infrastructure Support
16 15 (3.16%) Linux Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.37%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (3.37%) LDAP
1 16 (3.37%) WebSphere MQ
2 15 (3.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (2.32%) REST
4 10 (2.11%) JSON
4 10 (2.11%) XML
5 9 (1.89%) .NET
6 8 (1.68%) EDI
6 8 (1.68%) OpenAPI
6 8 (1.68%) RESTful
6 8 (1.68%) Swagger
6 8 (1.68%) Web Services
7 7 (1.47%) CSS
7 7 (1.47%) HTML
8 6 (1.26%) Django
8 6 (1.26%) FastAPI
8 6 (1.26%) JWT
8 6 (1.26%) NumPy
8 6 (1.26%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
2 38 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 24 (5.05%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (1.89%) NHS
9 8 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.47%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.47%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.05%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.05%) CMDB
11 5 (1.05%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.84%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.95%) Windows
2 32 (6.74%) Linux
3 16 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (3.37%) Unix
4 7 (1.47%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.05%) Debian
5 5 (1.05%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (37.89%) Agile
2 149 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (19.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 85 (17.89%) Roadmaps
5 77 (16.21%) Translating Business Requirements
6 75 (15.79%) Logistics
7 72 (15.16%) ERP
8 71 (14.95%) Change Management
8 71 (14.95%) Data Management
9 68 (14.32%) Migration
10 66 (13.89%) AI
11 63 (13.26%) Requirements Gathering
12 62 (13.05%) Business Analysis
12 62 (13.05%) Incident Management
13 61 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 61 (12.84%) Data Collection
14 60 (12.63%) Impact Analysis
14 60 (12.63%) Quality Management
14 60 (12.63%) Validation
15 59 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 136 (28.63%) SQL
2 41 (8.63%) Python
3 20 (4.21%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.74%) C#
5 12 (2.53%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.84%) Java
8 3 (0.63%) PHP
8 3 (0.63%) VBA
9 2 (0.42%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.21%) Bash
10 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 91 (19.16%) Degree
2 25 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 19 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 16 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (2.32%) Security Cleared
6 8 (1.68%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.68%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.47%) IIBA
7 7 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.26%) ISEB
9 5 (1.05%) ACCA
9 5 (1.05%) CBAP
9 5 (1.05%) CIMA
9 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.05%) PMP
10 4 (0.84%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.42%) CFA
11 2 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (13.05%) QA
2 28 (5.89%) Data Quality
3 27 (5.68%) SLA
4 6 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.05%) GDPR
5 5 (1.05%) ISO 9001
5 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.84%) HL7
7 3 (0.63%) MiFID
8 2 (0.42%) PMO
8 2 (0.42%) UCITS
9 1 (0.21%) EMIR
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (1.47%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) Kamailio
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.42%) Grafana
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.42%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) Ansible
5 1 (0.21%) Control-M
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.21%) Puppet
5 1 (0.21%) SCCM
5 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 115 (24.21%) Microsoft
2 101 (21.26%) SAP
3 45 (9.47%) Blue Prism
4 41 (8.63%) Oracle
5 18 (3.79%) IBM
5 18 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.37%) Red Hat
6 16 (3.37%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.47%) Workday
8 6 (1.26%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.26%) Automation Anywhere
8 6 (1.26%) Databricks
8 6 (1.26%) OpenAI
8 6 (1.26%) UiPath
9 5 (1.05%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.84%) Anaplan
10 4 (0.84%) Ariba
11 3 (0.63%) Concur
11 3 (0.63%) HP
11 3 (0.63%) iManage