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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 372 351
Rank change year-on-year +119 -21 -56
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 608 276 658
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.73% 0.73% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 0.78% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 400 185 521
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,550 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £77,813 £77,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,500 £80,000
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 61,164 35,487 72,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.89% 93.36% 84.12%
Number of salaries quoted 40,556 18,984 54,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,779 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
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 £72,761
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%

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 26 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 26 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 +113 290 £67,500 -6.90% 169
North of England +39 129 £57,500 -11.54% 57
North West +14 63 £55,000 -16.98% 38
Midlands -23 61 £50,000 +4.17% 39
South East +11 51 £55,000 -4.35% 67
West Midlands -25 49 £50,000 +5.26% 24
Yorkshire -12 48 £83,750 +86.11% 17
East of England -15 32 £50,025 -5.61% 11
South West -55 28 £55,000 +1.32% 20
North East - 18 £41,500 - 2
East Midlands -34 12 £52,500 -25.00% 15
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 30 (4.93%) Confluence
2 25 (4.11%) Apache
2 25 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 19 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.48%) Appian
5 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.49%) CMS
6 3 (0.49%) IIS
7 2 (0.33%) WordPress
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 42 (6.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.77%) MS Visio
3 25 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.33%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 76 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.81%) Dynamics AX
4 10 (1.64%) SAP SD
5 8 (1.32%) Elite 3E
5 8 (1.32%) Sage 50
6 7 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (1.15%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.99%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.82%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.66%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.66%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.66%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.66%) SAP GTS
9 4 (0.66%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.66%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.66%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 107 (17.60%) Azure
2 78 (12.83%) Power Platform
3 63 (10.36%) AWS
4 50 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
4 50 (8.22%) Dynamics 365
5 35 (5.76%) Power Automate
6 31 (5.10%) SaaS
7 29 (4.77%) Amazon S3
8 26 (4.28%) PowerApps
9 25 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (4.11%) OpenShift
10 19 (3.13%) GCP
11 11 (1.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (1.81%) Boomi
12 9 (1.48%) Anthropic Claude
12 9 (1.48%) Azure AI
13 8 (1.32%) Azure AKS
13 8 (1.32%) Snowflake
14 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (0.99%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.32%) VPN
2 5 (0.82%) HTTP
3 2 (0.33%) Intranet
3 2 (0.33%) LAN
3 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.33%) VoIP
3 2 (0.33%) WAN
3 2 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) FTP
4 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (10.03%) Power BI
2 30 (4.93%) Oracle Database
3 28 (4.61%) Tableau
4 27 (4.44%) SQL Server
5 25 (4.11%) Apache Hive
5 25 (4.11%) Impala
5 25 (4.11%) Parquet
5 25 (4.11%) Spark SQL
6 11 (1.81%) SAP HANA
7 9 (1.48%) Pinecone
7 9 (1.48%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.48%) SAP BW
8 7 (1.15%) MySQL
9 6 (0.99%) Electronic Patient Records
9 6 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.99%) Power Query
9 6 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.82%) DB2
10 5 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 84 (13.82%) JIRA
2 31 (5.10%) Git
2 31 (5.10%) Selenium
3 25 (4.11%) IBM UrbanCode
4 23 (3.78%) Cypress.io
5 13 (2.14%) Postman
6 9 (1.48%) MLflow
7 5 (0.82%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.82%) REST Assured
7 5 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.66%) GitLab
8 4 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (0.66%) SpecFlow
8 4 (0.66%) TestRail
9 3 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.49%) JUnit
9 3 (0.49%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.49%) Ranorex
9 3 (0.49%) TestNG
10 2 (0.33%) Eclipse
General
1 266 (43.75%) Finance
2 242 (39.80%) Social Skills
3 173 (28.45%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (10.36%) Banking
4 63 (10.36%) Law
5 53 (8.72%) Legal
6 49 (8.06%) Manufacturing
7 40 (6.58%) Retail
8 36 (5.92%) Investment Banking
9 35 (5.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (4.77%) Public Sector
11 26 (4.28%) Marketing
12 21 (3.45%) Billing
13 17 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.48%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.48%) Games
18 8 (1.32%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 203 (33.39%) Analyst
2 115 (18.91%) Business Analyst
3 105 (17.27%) Consultant
4 66 (10.86%) Lead
5 59 (9.70%) Senior
6 38 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
7 36 (5.92%) Technical Analyst
8 34 (5.59%) Project Manager
9 29 (4.77%) Senior Analyst
10 28 (4.61%) Transformation Analyst
11 23 (3.78%) Banking Analyst
11 23 (3.78%) Systems Analyst
12 21 (3.45%) Support Analyst
12 21 (3.45%) Test Leader
13 20 (3.29%) QA Leader
13 20 (3.29%) Transformation Manager
14 17 (2.80%) Developer
14 17 (2.80%) Functional Consultant
14 17 (2.80%) SAP Manager
15 16 (2.63%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (4.77%) REST
2 25 (4.11%) PySpark
3 24 (3.95%) Playwright
4 23 (3.78%) Middleware
5 22 (3.62%) Pandas
6 14 (2.30%) RESTful
6 14 (2.30%) Web Services
7 13 (2.14%) SAP Fiori
7 13 (2.14%) Swagger
8 12 (1.97%) OpenAPI
8 12 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
9 11 (1.81%) Flask
10 10 (1.64%) JSON
11 9 (1.48%) Django
11 9 (1.48%) NumPy
11 9 (1.48%) OAuth
11 9 (1.48%) pytest
11 9 (1.48%) scikit-learn
11 9 (1.48%) TensorFlow
11 9 (1.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.40%) Onboarding
2 43 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
3 36 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 18 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
4 18 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 17 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 16 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 15 (2.47%) Low-Code
7 15 (2.47%) NHS
7 15 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 11 (1.81%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 8 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.32%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.15%) CMDB
11 7 (1.15%) Derivative
11 7 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.80%) Windows
2 14 (2.30%) Linux
3 8 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.82%) Unix
5 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (33.55%) Agile
2 180 (29.61%) Stakeholder Management
3 174 (28.62%) Continuous Improvement
4 166 (27.30%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (20.56%) Requirements Gathering
6 119 (19.57%) Migration
7 109 (17.93%) ERP
8 105 (17.27%) Validation
9 91 (14.97%) System Integration Testing
10 89 (14.64%) Test Automation
11 85 (13.98%) User Stories
12 81 (13.32%) Translating Business Requirements
13 79 (12.99%) CI/CD
14 77 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
14 77 (12.66%) Workshop Facilitation
15 75 (12.34%) DevOps
16 73 (12.01%) Process Improvement
17 72 (11.84%) AI
18 71 (11.68%) Data Migration
18 71 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 118 (19.41%) SQL
2 61 (10.03%) Python
3 34 (5.59%) C#
4 23 (3.78%) JavaScript
5 19 (3.13%) ABAP
5 19 (3.13%) Java
6 12 (1.97%) C++
7 8 (1.32%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.82%) Apex Code
9 5 (0.82%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.66%) Rust
10 4 (0.66%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.66%) VBA
11 3 (0.49%) Perl
12 2 (0.33%) Go
12 2 (0.33%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.16%) C
13 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 79 (12.99%) Degree
2 23 (3.78%) PMI Certification
3 22 (3.62%) Security Cleared
4 18 (2.96%) PMP
5 17 (2.80%) ISTQB
6 13 (2.14%) SC Cleared
7 11 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.32%) IIBA
10 7 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.99%) CBAP
11 6 (0.99%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.99%) SAP Certification
12 5 (0.82%) ISEB
12 5 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.66%) CCA
13 4 (0.66%) PhD
14 3 (0.49%) ACCA
14 3 (0.49%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (17.93%) QA
2 71 (11.68%) Data Quality
3 48 (7.89%) GDPR
4 30 (4.93%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.29%) PMO
6 15 (2.47%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.30%) SLA
8 12 (1.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 12 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.15%) IFRS
10 6 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.99%) HL7
11 5 (0.82%) GAAP
11 5 (0.82%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.82%) TickIT
12 4 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.49%) WCAG
14 2 (0.33%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.33%) PSD2
15 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 18 (2.96%) Docker
2 10 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.66%) Firmware
3 4 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.47%) Terraform
3 4 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.33%) Ansible
4 2 (0.33%) Grafana
4 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 109 (17.93%) SAP
2 96 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 75 (12.34%) Oracle
4 26 (4.28%) Red Hat
4 26 (4.28%) Salesforce
4 26 (4.28%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.14%) Intapp
6 10 (1.64%) Ariba
6 10 (1.64%) FIS
6 10 (1.64%) Sage
7 9 (1.48%) Automation Anywhere
7 9 (1.48%) ION Trading
7 9 (1.48%) OpenAI
7 9 (1.48%) OpenText
7 9 (1.48%) UiPath
8 8 (1.32%) Xero
9 7 (1.15%) IFS
9 7 (1.15%) iManage
10 6 (0.99%) HubSpot
10 6 (0.99%) MuleSoft