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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 377 241
Rank change year-on-year +141 -136 +45
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 475 344 546
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.92% 0.67% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.75% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 271 179 453
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,000 £37,300
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,955 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +6.36%

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 43,019 45,713 40,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.22% 89.63% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 25,671 23,249 31,363
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

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 19 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 19 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 +108 206 £63,750 -12.07% 103
South East +126 140 £42,500 -22.73% 114
Midlands +34 65 £42,500 -15.00% 61
West Midlands +41 41 £42,500 -18.89% 28
North of England -17 30 £52,500 -4.55% 79
East Midlands 0 24 £55,000 +69.23% 32
North West -12 14 £40,000 -38.46% 41
South West +13 13 £53,500 +18.89% 36
Yorkshire -13 13 £63,750 +96.24% 34
East of England +29 12 £45,000 +15.38% 43
North East +6 3 £48,000 -18.30% 4
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 5 (1.05%) 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 38 (8.00%) 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 85 (17.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.47%) NetSuite
4 6 (1.26%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.05%) Dynamics AX
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 67 (14.11%) Azure
3 47 (9.89%) Dynamics 365
4 39 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (5.89%) Power Automate
6 23 (4.84%) AWS
7 20 (4.21%) SaaS
8 14 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (2.32%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.11%) OCI
11 9 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.89%) Serverless
12 8 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
13 7 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (1.47%) Amazon S3
13 7 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.26%) Route 53
14 6 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.37%) SSL
2 10 (2.11%) 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
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.21%) RFID
5 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.63%) Power BI
2 27 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.37%) DB2
5 15 (3.16%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.32%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (2.11%) Metadata
8 9 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.26%) MySQL
10 5 (1.05%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.05%) Tableau
11 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.84%) Data Mining
11 4 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 60 (12.63%) JIRA
2 6 (1.26%) Selenium
3 5 (1.05%) Git
3 5 (1.05%) MLflow
4 4 (0.84%) Postman
5 3 (0.63%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.63%) eCATT
5 3 (0.63%) Katalon Studio
5 3 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.42%) GitLab
6 2 (0.42%) Grunt
6 2 (0.42%) gulp
6 2 (0.42%) webpack
7 1 (0.21%) Appium
7 1 (0.21%) JUnit
7 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.21%) Zephyr
General
1 263 (55.37%) Finance
2 236 (49.68%) Social Skills
3 107 (22.53%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (19.58%) Marketing
5 89 (18.74%) Manufacturing
6 36 (7.58%) Banking
7 29 (6.11%) Retail
8 28 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (5.68%) Legal
10 25 (5.26%) Law
11 21 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
13 12 (2.53%) Investment Banking
13 12 (2.53%) Public Sector
14 11 (2.32%) Back Office
15 10 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (1.26%) General Ledger
18 5 (1.05%) Financial Institution
18 5 (1.05%) Police
Job Titles
1 227 (47.79%) Analyst
2 102 (21.47%) Senior
3 86 (18.11%) Senior Analyst
4 78 (16.42%) Business Analyst
5 61 (12.84%) SAP Analyst
6 44 (9.26%) Developer
7 41 (8.63%) Lead
8 38 (8.00%) Consultant
9 37 (7.79%) Applications Support
10 29 (6.11%) Automation Developer
11 26 (5.47%) Support Analyst
12 21 (4.42%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
13 20 (4.21%) Functional Consultant
13 20 (4.21%) Power Platform Developer
14 18 (3.79%) Systems Analyst
15 17 (3.58%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 17 (3.58%) Test Leader
16 16 (3.37%) Automation Analyst
16 16 (3.37%) Infrastructure Support
16 16 (3.37%) Test Manager
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 10 (2.11%) JSON
3 10 (2.11%) REST
3 10 (2.11%) XML
4 9 (1.89%) .NET
5 8 (1.68%) EDI
5 8 (1.68%) HTML
6 7 (1.47%) CSS
6 7 (1.47%) RESTful
6 7 (1.47%) Web Services
7 6 (1.26%) OpenAPI
7 6 (1.26%) Swagger
8 5 (1.05%) Faiss
8 5 (1.05%) FastAPI
8 5 (1.05%) Hugging Face
8 5 (1.05%) JWT
8 5 (1.05%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 46 (9.68%) Greenfield Project
2 39 (8.21%) Management Information System
3 25 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.42%) Linux Command Line
5 20 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.68%) NHS
9 7 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.47%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.47%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.26%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.05%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.05%) CMDB
11 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.84%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 32 (6.74%) Linux
1 32 (6.74%) Windows
2 16 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 16 (3.37%) Unix
3 7 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.05%) Debian
4 5 (1.05%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (39.16%) Agile
2 149 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (19.16%) Stakeholder Management
4 86 (18.11%) Roadmaps
5 78 (16.42%) Translating Business Requirements
6 75 (15.79%) ERP
7 74 (15.58%) Logistics
8 72 (15.16%) Change Management
9 71 (14.95%) Data Management
10 68 (14.32%) Migration
11 65 (13.68%) AI
12 64 (13.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 63 (13.26%) Business Analysis
14 62 (13.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 62 (13.05%) Incident Management
14 62 (13.05%) Requirements Gathering
15 61 (12.84%) Data Collection
15 61 (12.84%) Validation
16 60 (12.63%) Impact Analysis
16 60 (12.63%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (28.00%) SQL
2 40 (8.42%) Python
3 20 (4.21%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.53%) C#
4 12 (2.53%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.63%) Java
6 3 (0.63%) PHP
6 3 (0.63%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.63%) VBA
7 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.21%) Bash
8 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 93 (19.58%) Degree
2 22 (4.63%) ISTQB
3 18 (3.79%) AWS Certification
4 17 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.37%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (2.32%) Security Cleared
7 8 (1.68%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.68%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.26%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.26%) IIBA
9 6 (1.26%) ISEB
10 5 (1.05%) ACCA
10 5 (1.05%) CBAP
10 5 (1.05%) CIMA
10 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.05%) PMP
11 2 (0.42%) CFA
11 2 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.63%) QA
2 26 (5.47%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.47%) SLA
3 6 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.05%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.05%) GDPR
4 5 (1.05%) ISO 9001
4 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.84%) HL7
6 3 (0.63%) MiFID
6 3 (0.63%) PMO
7 2 (0.42%) UCITS
8 1 (0.21%) EMIR
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (1.26%) Docker
2 5 (1.05%) Kamailio
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.42%) Grafana
3 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.42%) Terraform
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
4 1 (0.21%) Control-M
4 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.21%) Puppet
4 1 (0.21%) SCCM
4 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 114 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 104 (21.89%) SAP
3 45 (9.47%) Blue Prism
4 39 (8.21%) Oracle
5 18 (3.79%) IBM
5 18 (3.79%) Salesforce
5 18 (3.79%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.37%) Red Hat
7 7 (1.47%) Workday
8 6 (1.26%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
9 5 (1.05%) Bloomberg
9 5 (1.05%) Databricks
9 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.05%) UiPath
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