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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 364 349
Rank change year-on-year +117 -15 -86
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 620 288 649
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.75% 0.74% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.79% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 411 190 514
10th Percentile £36,250 £38,150 £34,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £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 61,509 36,392 74,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.96% 93.30% 83.31%
Number of salaries quoted 40,986 19,560 54,983
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £39,780
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,100 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% +5.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £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 2 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 2 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 +115 296 £67,500 -7.85% 191
North of England +41 135 £57,500 -6.17% 66
North West +16 67 £55,000 -16.98% 41
Midlands -11 62 £50,000 +5.26% 53
West Midlands -7 52 £50,000 +5.26% 32
Yorkshire -3 50 £82,500 +65.00% 21
South East +5 49 £52,500 -8.70% 79
East of England +1 32 £50,025 -5.61% 11
South West -50 29 £55,000 +0.66% 21
North East - 18 £41,500 - 4
East Midlands -35 10 £30,000 -57.14% 21
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 32 (5.16%) Confluence
2 25 (4.03%) Apache
2 25 (4.03%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (4.03%) Apache Spark
3 21 (3.39%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.29%) Appian
4 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.48%) CMS
5 3 (0.48%) IIS
6 2 (0.32%) WordPress
7 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 42 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (5.16%) MS Visio
3 24 (3.87%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 77 (12.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.77%) Dynamics AX
4 10 (1.61%) SAP SD
5 8 (1.29%) Elite 3E
5 8 (1.29%) Sage 50
6 7 (1.13%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (1.13%) SAP MDG
7 6 (0.97%) SAP PP
8 5 (0.81%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.81%) SAP EWM
9 4 (0.65%) iTrent
9 4 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.65%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.65%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
9 4 (0.65%) SAP GTS
9 4 (0.65%) SAP IBP
9 4 (0.65%) SAP MDG-BP
9 4 (0.65%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 113 (18.23%) Azure
2 80 (12.90%) Power Platform
3 65 (10.48%) AWS
4 54 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (8.23%) Dynamics 365
6 34 (5.48%) Power Automate
6 34 (5.48%) SaaS
7 29 (4.68%) Amazon S3
8 28 (4.52%) PowerApps
9 25 (4.03%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (4.03%) OpenShift
10 19 (3.06%) GCP
11 12 (1.94%) Boomi
12 9 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (1.29%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.29%) Azure AI
13 8 (1.29%) Azure AKS
13 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (1.29%) Snowflake
14 7 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.13%) VPN
2 5 (0.81%) HTTP
3 2 (0.32%) Intranet
3 2 (0.32%) LAN
3 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.32%) VoIP
3 2 (0.32%) WAN
3 2 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.16%) Broadband
4 1 (0.16%) FTP
4 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (9.84%) Power BI
2 30 (4.84%) Oracle Database
3 28 (4.52%) Tableau
4 27 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 25 (4.03%) Apache Hive
5 25 (4.03%) Impala
5 25 (4.03%) Parquet
5 25 (4.03%) Spark SQL
6 11 (1.77%) SAP HANA
7 9 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.45%) SAP BW
8 8 (1.29%) Pinecone
9 6 (0.97%) MySQL
9 6 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (0.97%) Power Query
9 6 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.81%) DB2
10 5 (0.81%) Electronic Patient Records
10 5 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 88 (14.19%) JIRA
2 34 (5.48%) Git
2 34 (5.48%) Selenium
3 25 (4.03%) IBM UrbanCode
4 24 (3.87%) Cypress.io
5 16 (2.58%) Postman
6 8 (1.29%) MLflow
7 7 (1.13%) GitLab
8 6 (0.97%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.97%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.81%) JUnit
9 5 (0.81%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (0.65%) SpecFlow
10 4 (0.65%) TestRail
11 3 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.48%) Gatling
11 3 (0.48%) Ranorex
11 3 (0.48%) TestNG
General
1 277 (44.68%) Finance
2 251 (40.48%) Social Skills
3 180 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (11.29%) Law
5 63 (10.16%) Banking
6 57 (9.19%) Legal
7 48 (7.74%) Manufacturing
8 38 (6.13%) Retail
9 36 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 36 (5.81%) Investment Banking
10 30 (4.84%) Public Sector
11 26 (4.19%) Marketing
12 21 (3.39%) Billing
13 17 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (1.45%) Games
18 8 (1.29%) Advertising
18 8 (1.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 208 (33.55%) Analyst
2 117 (18.87%) Business Analyst
3 105 (16.94%) Consultant
4 66 (10.65%) Lead
5 61 (9.84%) Senior
6 38 (6.13%) SAP Consultant
7 36 (5.81%) Technical Analyst
8 33 (5.32%) Project Manager
9 30 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
10 28 (4.52%) Transformation Analyst
11 23 (3.71%) Banking Analyst
11 23 (3.71%) Support Analyst
11 23 (3.71%) Systems Analyst
12 21 (3.39%) QA Leader
12 21 (3.39%) Test Leader
13 20 (3.23%) Transformation Manager
14 18 (2.90%) Developer
15 17 (2.74%) Functional Consultant
15 17 (2.74%) SAP Manager
16 16 (2.58%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.52%) REST
2 27 (4.35%) Playwright
3 25 (4.03%) PySpark
4 24 (3.87%) Middleware
5 21 (3.39%) Pandas
6 13 (2.10%) RESTful
6 13 (2.10%) SAP Fiori
6 13 (2.10%) Web Services
7 12 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
7 12 (1.94%) Swagger
8 11 (1.77%) OpenAPI
9 10 (1.61%) Flask
10 9 (1.45%) .NET
10 9 (1.45%) JSON
10 9 (1.45%) XML
11 8 (1.29%) Django
11 8 (1.29%) NumPy
11 8 (1.29%) OAuth
11 8 (1.29%) pytest
11 8 (1.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.26%) Onboarding
2 43 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
3 38 (6.13%) Product Ownership
4 20 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.90%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 15 (2.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 14 (2.26%) NHS
10 13 (2.10%) Low-Code
11 11 (1.77%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (1.29%) Fixed Income
13 8 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.13%) CMDB
14 7 (1.13%) Derivative
15 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
16 5 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.42%) Windows
2 13 (2.10%) Linux
3 7 (1.13%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.81%) Unix
5 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (33.87%) Agile
2 188 (30.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 182 (29.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 175 (28.23%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (20.16%) Requirements Gathering
6 118 (19.03%) Migration
7 110 (17.74%) ERP
8 108 (17.42%) Validation
9 94 (15.16%) System Integration Testing
10 91 (14.68%) Test Automation
11 87 (14.03%) User Stories
12 80 (12.90%) CI/CD
12 80 (12.90%) DevOps
12 80 (12.90%) Translating Business Requirements
13 78 (12.58%) Process Improvement
13 78 (12.58%) Workshop Facilitation
14 76 (12.26%) Business Intelligence
15 74 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 71 (11.45%) Data Migration
17 70 (11.29%) AI
Programming Languages
1 119 (19.19%) SQL
2 60 (9.68%) Python
3 35 (5.65%) C#
4 23 (3.71%) JavaScript
5 20 (3.23%) Java
6 19 (3.06%) ABAP
7 12 (1.94%) C++
8 8 (1.29%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.81%) Apex Code
10 5 (0.81%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.65%) Rust
11 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.65%) VBA
12 3 (0.48%) Perl
13 2 (0.32%) Go
13 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.16%) C
14 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (12.58%) Degree
2 23 (3.71%) Security Cleared
3 22 (3.55%) PMI Certification
4 18 (2.90%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.74%) PMP
6 16 (2.58%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.13%) IIBA
9 7 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.97%) CBAP
10 6 (0.97%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.97%) SAP Certification
11 5 (0.81%) ACCA
11 5 (0.81%) CIMA
11 5 (0.81%) ISEB
11 5 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.65%) CCA
12 4 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (18.23%) QA
2 72 (11.61%) Data Quality
3 50 (8.06%) GDPR
4 33 (5.32%) Accessibility
5 20 (3.23%) PMO
6 15 (2.42%) HIPAA
6 15 (2.42%) SLA
7 12 (1.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 11 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (1.13%) IFRS
10 6 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.81%) GAAP
11 5 (0.81%) HL7
11 5 (0.81%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.81%) TickIT
11 5 (0.81%) WCAG
12 4 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.32%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.32%) PSD2
14 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (3.06%) Docker
2 8 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.65%) Firmware
3 4 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.42%) Terraform
3 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.32%) Ansible
4 2 (0.32%) Grafana
4 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 110 (17.74%) SAP
2 96 (15.48%) Microsoft
3 76 (12.26%) Oracle
4 26 (4.19%) Red Hat
4 26 (4.19%) Salesforce
4 26 (4.19%) ServiceNow
5 13 (2.10%) Intapp
6 10 (1.61%) Ariba
6 10 (1.61%) FIS
6 10 (1.61%) Sage
7 9 (1.45%) ION Trading
7 9 (1.45%) OpenText
8 8 (1.29%) Automation Anywhere
8 8 (1.29%) OpenAI
8 8 (1.29%) UiPath
8 8 (1.29%) Xero
9 7 (1.13%) IFS
9 7 (1.13%) iManage
9 7 (1.13%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.97%) HubSpot