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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 349 299
Rank change year-on-year +83 -50 +1
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 471 331 647
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.76% 0.81% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.87% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 285 187 530
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,750 £37,475
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,000 £46,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £73,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -

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 49,042 38,226 61,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.61% 93.29% 87.71%
Number of salaries quoted 30,142 19,728 48,094
10th Percentile £29,273 £33,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £39,852 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +88 199 £62,500 -16.67% 120
South East +49 104 £42,500 -25.58% 106
Midlands +7 66 £42,500 -17.47% 41
West Midlands +27 44 £44,772 -13.81% 19
North of England -74 40 £52,000 -5.45% 73
South West -11 27 £47,500 - 20
East Midlands -14 22 £37,500 -16.67% 22
East of England +15 21 £57,500 +4.55% 26
North West -42 17 £51,500 -20.77% 46
Yorkshire -34 16 £57,500 +77.00% 23
North East -13 7 £43,000 -31.20% 5
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 24 (5.10%) Confluence
2 23 (4.88%) Apache
2 23 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 23 (4.88%) Apache Spark
3 12 (2.55%) Appian
4 11 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.12%) Tomcat
5 10 (2.12%) WebSphere
5 10 (2.12%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) WordPress
7 1 (0.21%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (5.31%) MS Visio
3 19 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (12.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (2.12%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.85%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 4 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.85%) SAP EWM
6 3 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.64%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.64%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.64%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.64%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.42%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.42%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.42%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 97 (20.59%) Power Platform
2 66 (14.01%) Azure
3 45 (9.55%) AWS
4 35 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
5 33 (7.01%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (6.37%) Amazon S3
7 27 (5.73%) SaaS
8 25 (5.31%) Power Automate
9 23 (4.88%) OpenShift
10 16 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (2.55%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (2.55%) Azure AI
12 11 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.12%) PowerApps
14 8 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (1.70%) OCI
14 8 (1.70%) Serverless
15 5 (1.06%) Lucidchart
15 5 (1.06%) SuccessFactors
16 4 (0.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.12%) SSL
2 9 (1.91%) VPN
3 3 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.42%) GSM
4 2 (0.42%) LAN
4 2 (0.42%) LTE
4 2 (0.42%) WAN
5 1 (0.21%) HTTP
5 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (10.19%) Power BI
2 30 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 27 (5.73%) Oracle Database
4 24 (5.10%) Tableau
5 23 (4.88%) Apache Hive
5 23 (4.88%) Impala
5 23 (4.88%) Parquet
5 23 (4.88%) Spark SQL
6 16 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (2.76%) DB2
8 12 (2.55%) Pinecone
9 10 (2.12%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.49%) MySQL
11 7 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
12 6 (1.27%) Metadata
13 4 (0.85%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 60 (12.74%) JIRA
2 26 (5.52%) Git
3 23 (4.88%) IBM UrbanCode
4 22 (4.67%) Selenium
5 16 (3.40%) Cypress.io
6 12 (2.55%) MLflow
7 6 (1.27%) Postman
8 3 (0.64%) JUnit
8 3 (0.64%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.42%) Ranorex
9 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.42%) TestDirector
9 2 (0.42%) TestNG
9 2 (0.42%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.21%) Appium
10 1 (0.21%) GitLab
10 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 225 (47.77%) Finance
2 203 (43.10%) Social Skills
3 114 (24.20%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (13.16%) Manufacturing
5 61 (12.95%) Banking
6 45 (9.55%) Marketing
7 34 (7.22%) Investment Banking
8 26 (5.52%) Legal
9 22 (4.67%) Law
10 18 (3.82%) Public Sector
11 15 (3.18%) Retail
12 12 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (1.49%) Billing
14 7 (1.49%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.27%) Advertising
15 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.06%) Back Office
16 5 (1.06%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 240 (50.96%) Analyst
2 99 (21.02%) Business Analyst
3 79 (16.77%) Senior
4 63 (13.38%) Senior Analyst
5 52 (11.04%) Lead
6 37 (7.86%) Developer
7 36 (7.64%) SAP Analyst
8 31 (6.58%) Support Analyst
9 29 (6.16%) Technical Analyst
10 28 (5.94%) Consultant
11 26 (5.52%) Automation Developer
12 25 (5.31%) Test Leader
12 25 (5.31%) Transformation Analyst
13 24 (5.10%) Applications Support
14 20 (4.25%) Banking Analyst
14 20 (4.25%) Power Platform Developer
15 18 (3.82%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
15 18 (3.82%) Senior Business Analyst
16 17 (3.61%) Systems Analyst
17 16 (3.40%) Automation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.10%) Pandas
2 23 (4.88%) PySpark
3 17 (3.61%) REST
4 15 (3.18%) OpenAPI
4 15 (3.18%) Swagger
4 15 (3.18%) Web Services
5 14 (2.97%) Playwright
5 14 (2.97%) RESTful
6 13 (2.76%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (2.55%) Django
7 12 (2.55%) Faiss
7 12 (2.55%) FastAPI
7 12 (2.55%) Flask
7 12 (2.55%) Hugging Face
7 12 (2.55%) JWT
7 12 (2.55%) NumPy
7 12 (2.55%) OAuth
7 12 (2.55%) pytest
7 12 (2.55%) PyTorch
7 12 (2.55%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.92%) Greenfield Project
2 26 (5.52%) Onboarding
2 26 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 23 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (4.67%) Management Information System
5 19 (4.03%) Linux Command Line
6 16 (3.40%) Low-Code
7 15 (3.18%) NHS
8 7 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.27%) AI Agents
9 6 (1.27%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.06%) CMDB
10 5 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.85%) Data Structures
11 4 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.88%) Linux
1 23 (4.88%) Windows
2 13 (2.76%) Unix
3 11 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.21%) Android
6 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (42.46%) Agile
2 118 (25.05%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (21.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 93 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 92 (19.53%) AI
5 92 (19.53%) Roadmaps
6 89 (18.90%) Validation
7 88 (18.68%) Requirements Gathering
8 75 (15.92%) Test Automation
9 73 (15.50%) Change Management
10 66 (14.01%) Translating Business Requirements
11 61 (12.95%) Business Intelligence
11 61 (12.95%) CI/CD
11 61 (12.95%) Migration
12 57 (12.10%) Business Analysis
13 56 (11.89%) User Stories
14 55 (11.68%) ERP
14 55 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 54 (11.46%) Intelligent Automation
15 54 (11.46%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 152 (32.27%) SQL
2 60 (12.74%) Python
3 18 (3.82%) C#
4 15 (3.18%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.70%) Java
5 8 (1.70%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.27%) C++
7 5 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.64%) ABAP
8 3 (0.64%) Rust
9 2 (0.42%) Bash
9 2 (0.42%) Go
9 2 (0.42%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.42%) VBA
10 1 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.21%) Korn
10 1 (0.21%) PHP
10 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (14.65%) Degree
2 20 (4.25%) ISTQB
3 18 (3.82%) PMI Certification
4 15 (3.18%) PMP
4 15 (3.18%) Security Cleared
5 14 (2.97%) AWS Certification
6 11 (2.34%) SC Cleared
7 10 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.70%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.70%) IIBA
9 7 (1.49%) ISEB
10 6 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (1.06%) CBAP
11 5 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.64%) CAPM
12 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.42%) ACCA
13 2 (0.42%) CIMA
13 2 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (16.14%) QA
2 47 (9.98%) Data Quality
3 22 (4.67%) SLA
4 21 (4.46%) Accessibility
5 20 (4.25%) GDPR
6 11 (2.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 11 (2.34%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.27%) HL7
8 5 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.06%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.85%) IFRS
9 4 (0.85%) PMO
10 3 (0.64%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.42%) GAAP
11 2 (0.42%) PSD2
11 2 (0.42%) WCAG
12 1 (0.21%) FATCA
12 1 (0.21%) MiFID
12 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (3.40%) Docker
2 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.64%) Firmware
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (3.61%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.64%) Terraform
5 1 (0.21%) Control-M
5 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 100 (21.23%) Microsoft
2 78 (16.56%) SAP
3 63 (13.38%) Oracle
4 44 (9.34%) Blue Prism
5 34 (7.22%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.61%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.55%) Automation Anywhere
7 12 (2.55%) IBM
7 12 (2.55%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.55%) UiPath
8 11 (2.34%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.27%) Workday
10 5 (1.06%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.06%) Ariba
11 4 (0.85%) Anaplan
11 4 (0.85%) Databricks
11 4 (0.85%) Google
11 4 (0.85%) IFS
12 3 (0.64%) Concur
12 3 (0.64%) Okta