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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 363 363
Rank change year-on-year +114 0 -98
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 641 304 633
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.76% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.82% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 433 198 486
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £34,375
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.41%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,875 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £54,148
% change year-on-year - +10.81% -1.55%

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 62,143 37,121 76,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.57% 92.27% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 43,798 20,470 55,428
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,822 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 June 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 +92 283 £68,000 -2.86% 113
North of England +61 154 £55,000 - 35
North West +45 87 £55,000 -4.35% 21
Midlands -1 65 £50,000 -4.76% 30
South East -4 59 £45,000 -21.74% 68
West Midlands +4 52 £50,000 -4.76% 16
Yorkshire 0 50 £82,500 +50.00% 12
South West -47 32 £53,750 -3.83% 20
East of England -12 31 £45,050 -15.00% 8
North East - 17 £42,250 - 2
East Midlands -25 13 £61,250 -12.50% 14
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 35 (5.46%) Confluence
2 26 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.90%) Apache
3 25 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (3.90%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.94%) Appian
6 4 (0.62%) CMS
7 3 (0.47%) IIS
8 2 (0.31%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 41 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (4.84%) MS Visio
3 30 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.31%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.16%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 82 (12.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (2.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.56%) SAP SD
4 9 (1.40%) NetSuite
5 8 (1.25%) Dynamics AX
5 8 (1.25%) Elite 3E
5 8 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (1.25%) Sage 50
6 7 (1.09%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.78%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.78%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.78%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
9 4 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.62%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 115 (17.94%) Azure
2 79 (12.32%) Power Platform
3 65 (10.14%) AWS
4 55 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
4 55 (8.58%) Dynamics 365
5 38 (5.93%) SaaS
6 30 (4.68%) Power Automate
6 30 (4.68%) PowerApps
7 28 (4.37%) Microsoft 365
8 27 (4.21%) Amazon S3
9 25 (3.90%) OpenShift
10 21 (3.28%) GCP
11 12 (1.87%) Boomi
12 8 (1.25%) Azure AKS
12 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.25%) Snowflake
12 8 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (1.09%) GitHub
14 6 (0.94%) Anthropic Claude
14 6 (0.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.78%) HTTP
2 2 (0.31%) Intranet
2 2 (0.31%) LAN
2 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.31%) VoIP
2 2 (0.31%) VPN
2 2 (0.31%) WAN
3 1 (0.16%) Broadband
3 1 (0.16%) FTP
3 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.52%) Power BI
2 31 (4.84%) Oracle Database
3 29 (4.52%) Tableau
4 26 (4.06%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.90%) Apache Hive
5 25 (3.90%) Impala
5 25 (3.90%) Parquet
5 25 (3.90%) Spark SQL
6 11 (1.72%) SAP HANA
7 10 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.56%) SAP BW
8 8 (1.25%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.94%) Pinecone
10 6 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.94%) Power Query
11 5 (0.78%) Metadata
11 5 (0.78%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.62%) DB2 UDB
12 4 (0.62%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 87 (13.57%) JIRA
2 36 (5.62%) Git
3 34 (5.30%) Selenium
4 25 (3.90%) IBM UrbanCode
5 23 (3.59%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.34%) Postman
7 8 (1.25%) GitLab
7 8 (1.25%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.94%) MLflow
8 6 (0.94%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.78%) JUnit
9 5 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.62%) Gatling
10 4 (0.62%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.62%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.62%) TestRail
11 3 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.47%) Ranorex
11 3 (0.47%) TestNG
General
1 295 (46.02%) Finance
2 261 (40.72%) Social Skills
3 193 (30.11%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.92%) Law
5 61 (9.52%) Banking
6 55 (8.58%) Legal
7 46 (7.18%) Manufacturing
8 38 (5.93%) Investment Banking
8 38 (5.93%) Retail
9 36 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 35 (5.46%) Public Sector
11 26 (4.06%) Marketing
12 20 (3.12%) Billing
12 20 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
13 17 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.56%) Advertising
15 10 (1.56%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.40%) Games
Job Titles
1 207 (32.29%) Analyst
2 116 (18.10%) Business Analyst
3 103 (16.07%) Consultant
4 64 (9.98%) Lead
5 57 (8.89%) Senior
6 38 (5.93%) SAP Consultant
7 34 (5.30%) Project Manager
8 31 (4.84%) Support Analyst
9 30 (4.68%) Technical Analyst
10 26 (4.06%) Systems Analyst
11 24 (3.74%) Transformation Analyst
12 23 (3.59%) Banking Analyst
12 23 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
13 22 (3.43%) Test Leader
14 21 (3.28%) QA Leader
15 20 (3.12%) Transformation Manager
16 19 (2.96%) Systems Support
17 18 (2.81%) Tester
18 17 (2.65%) Developer
18 17 (2.65%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (4.21%) Playwright
1 27 (4.21%) REST
2 25 (3.90%) Middleware
2 25 (3.90%) PySpark
3 19 (2.96%) Pandas
4 15 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (2.03%) SAP Fiori
6 11 (1.72%) RESTful
6 11 (1.72%) Web Services
6 11 (1.72%) XML
7 9 (1.40%) Swagger
8 8 (1.25%) .NET
8 8 (1.25%) Flask
9 7 (1.09%) OpenAPI
9 7 (1.09%) React
9 7 (1.09%) SAP Core Interface
10 6 (0.94%) Faiss
10 6 (0.94%) FastAPI
10 6 (0.94%) Hugging Face
10 6 (0.94%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 43 (6.71%) Onboarding
3 42 (6.55%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (3.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 18 (2.81%) Data Structures
8 14 (2.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 12 (1.87%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.72%) Low-Code
11 10 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.25%) Derivative
12 8 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.25%) NHS
13 7 (1.09%) CMDB
13 7 (1.09%) Driving Licence
13 7 (1.09%) Fixed Income
14 6 (0.94%) Blog
15 5 (0.78%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.50%) Windows
2 12 (1.87%) Linux
3 7 (1.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.78%) Unix
5 1 (0.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
5 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (33.54%) Agile
2 208 (32.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 191 (29.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 183 (28.55%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (19.19%) ERP
6 120 (18.72%) Requirements Gathering
7 117 (18.25%) Migration
8 115 (17.94%) Validation
9 106 (16.54%) System Integration Testing
10 96 (14.98%) Process Improvement
11 92 (14.35%) User Stories
12 87 (13.57%) Test Automation
13 83 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 83 (12.95%) Translating Business Requirements
14 81 (12.64%) DevOps
15 78 (12.17%) CI/CD
16 75 (11.70%) Workshop Facilitation
17 74 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
18 71 (11.08%) Data Migration
19 69 (10.76%) AI
Programming Languages
1 121 (18.88%) SQL
2 61 (9.52%) Python
3 33 (5.15%) C#
4 20 (3.12%) Java
4 20 (3.12%) JavaScript
5 19 (2.96%) ABAP
6 12 (1.87%) C++
7 8 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 8 (1.25%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.78%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.62%) Rust
10 4 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.47%) Perl
11 3 (0.47%) VBA
12 2 (0.31%) Go
12 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.16%) Bash
13 1 (0.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 79 (12.32%) Degree
2 27 (4.21%) Security Cleared
3 20 (3.12%) SC Cleared
4 17 (2.65%) PMI Certification
5 16 (2.50%) ISTQB
6 14 (2.18%) PMP
7 11 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.56%) ACCA
8 10 (1.56%) CIMA
8 10 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.25%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.09%) SAP Certification
11 6 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (0.78%) CCA
13 4 (0.62%) ISEB
13 4 (0.62%) PhD
13 4 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (17.94%) QA
2 71 (11.08%) Data Quality
3 51 (7.96%) GDPR
4 33 (5.15%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.12%) PMO
6 15 (2.34%) HIPAA
7 14 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (2.03%) SLA
9 12 (1.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (1.09%) GAAP
10 7 (1.09%) IFRS
11 5 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.78%) TickIT
11 5 (0.78%) WCAG
12 4 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.31%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.16%) FATCA
14 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 18 (2.81%) Docker
2 8 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.62%) Firmware
3 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (3.59%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.50%) Terraform
3 3 (0.47%) Ansible
4 2 (0.31%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (17.63%) Microsoft
1 113 (17.63%) SAP
2 79 (12.32%) Oracle
3 29 (4.52%) ServiceNow
4 28 (4.37%) Salesforce
5 26 (4.06%) Red Hat
6 13 (2.03%) Intapp
6 13 (2.03%) Sage
7 10 (1.56%) Ariba
7 10 (1.56%) FIS
7 10 (1.56%) ION Trading
8 9 (1.40%) OpenText
9 8 (1.25%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.25%) Xero
10 7 (1.09%) Databricks
10 7 (1.09%) IFS
10 7 (1.09%) iManage
11 6 (0.94%) Automation Anywhere
11 6 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.94%) UiPath