User Acceptance Testing Jobs

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for User Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 301 342
Rank change year-on-year -67 +41 -41
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 727 1,190 1,868
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 1.20% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.25% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 565 756 1,257
10th Percentile £35,100 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £69,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,450
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £45,250
% change year-on-year - +16.02% +4.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

User Acceptance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing User Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing.

Salary trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
England -56 659 £55,000 - 246
UK excluding London -57 497 £52,500 - 170
Work from Home -53 307 £55,000 - 103
London -62 201 £61,500 +2.50% 84
Midlands +25 132 £52,500 +0.90% 42
North of England +8 130 £52,500 -4.55% 34
South East -64 89 £56,000 +1.82% 41
North West -25 79 £51,674 -10.13% 20
West Midlands +30 73 £57,500 +4.55% 32
East Midlands +2 59 £45,000 +9.09% 10
East of England +2 55 £45,000 +2.86% 17
Yorkshire +84 48 £60,000 +33.33% 10
South West -58 46 £60,000 +9.09% 21
Scotland -70 34 £54,750 +7.48% 11
Wales +4 12 £55,000 +57.14% 2
North East -7 5 £40,500 -26.36% 4
Northern Ireland +23 2 £47,500 +3.26% 4

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (3.85%) IIS
2 19 (2.61%) Confluence
3 15 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.83%) CMS
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.55%) SAS
6 3 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 55 (7.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.65%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.55%) SPSS
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 34 (4.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (2.06%) NetSuite
3 9 (1.24%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.83%) SAP PLM
4 6 (0.83%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.28%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
9 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 140 (19.26%) Azure
2 82 (11.28%) Azure DevOps
3 67 (9.22%) Dynamics 365
4 63 (8.67%) Power Platform
5 41 (5.64%) AWS
6 20 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.75%) PowerApps
6 20 (2.75%) SaaS
7 12 (1.65%) GitHub
7 12 (1.65%) PaaS
8 10 (1.38%) Power Automate
9 7 (0.96%) OCI
10 5 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (0.69%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.55%) Dropbox
11 4 (0.55%) IaaS
12 3 (0.41%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.41%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.69%) 5G
1 5 (0.69%) Broadband
1 5 (0.69%) Wireless
2 4 (0.55%) LAN
2 4 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.28%) DNS
3 2 (0.28%) Intranet
3 2 (0.28%) SSH
4 1 (0.14%) Diameter Protocol
4 1 (0.14%) GSM
4 1 (0.14%) SIGTRAN
4 1 (0.14%) SS7
4 1 (0.14%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 55 (7.57%) Power BI
3 26 (3.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (3.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 22 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.38%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.24%) Power Query
11 8 (1.10%) Tableau
12 7 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (0.96%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
12 7 (0.96%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (0.83%) MySQL
13 6 (0.83%) SAP HANA
14 5 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (0.69%) Big Data
14 5 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (10.45%) JIRA
2 34 (4.68%) Selenium
3 31 (4.26%) Jasmine
4 28 (3.85%) Karma Test Runner
5 20 (2.75%) Cucumber
6 18 (2.48%) Git
7 17 (2.34%) Visual Studio
8 15 (2.06%) Postman
9 14 (1.93%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (1.38%) Cypress.io
12 8 (1.10%) TeamCity
12 8 (1.10%) Zephyr
13 7 (0.96%) TestRail
14 6 (0.83%) JMeter
14 6 (0.83%) JUnit
14 6 (0.83%) MSTest
15 5 (0.69%) GitLab
15 5 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
16 4 (0.55%) Jenkins
General
1 237 (32.60%) Finance
2 236 (32.46%) Social Skills
3 155 (21.32%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (11.42%) Law
5 62 (8.53%) Retail
6 46 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 39 (5.36%) Marketing
8 29 (3.99%) Back Office
9 27 (3.71%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (3.44%) Public Sector
11 24 (3.30%) Billing
11 24 (3.30%) Legal
12 19 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (2.48%) Banking
14 16 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (2.06%) Local Government
16 14 (1.93%) Front Office
17 13 (1.79%) Investment Banking
18 12 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 197 (27.10%) Analyst
2 107 (14.72%) Senior
3 85 (11.69%) Business Analyst
4 78 (10.73%) Developer
5 64 (8.80%) Consultant
6 50 (6.88%) Lead
7 43 (5.91%) Test Manager
8 42 (5.78%) Applications Support
8 42 (5.78%) Project Manager
9 38 (5.23%) Test Analyst
10 28 (3.85%) C# Developer
10 28 (3.85%) Support Analyst
11 25 (3.44%) Functional Consultant
12 23 (3.16%) Systems Analyst
12 23 (3.16%) Tester
13 22 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
14 20 (2.75%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 19 (2.61%) Senior Consultant
15 19 (2.61%) Senior Manager
16 18 (2.48%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (9.08%) .NET
2 49 (6.74%) SOAP
3 45 (6.19%) Web Services
4 43 (5.91%) XML
5 38 (5.23%) JSON
6 33 (4.54%) AngularJS
6 33 (4.54%) ASP.NET
7 31 (4.26%) REST
7 31 (4.26%) Sass
8 28 (3.85%) RxJS
8 28 (3.85%) XML Schema
9 25 (3.44%) RESTful
10 21 (2.89%) HTML
11 17 (2.34%) CSS
12 14 (1.93%) Gherkin
12 14 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
13 8 (1.10%) Hibernate
14 6 (0.83%) React
15 5 (0.69%) Shiny
15 5 (0.69%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.60%) Product Ownership
2 32 (4.40%) Management Information System
3 30 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (2.48%) Onboarding
4 18 (2.48%) Virtual Team
5 16 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
6 14 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (1.65%) Fixed Income
8 12 (1.65%) Hedge funds
9 10 (1.38%) FMCG
9 10 (1.38%) IoT
10 7 (0.96%) Derivative
11 5 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (0.69%) BBC
11 5 (0.69%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.69%) Housing Association
12 4 (0.55%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.81%) Windows
2 22 (3.03%) Linux
3 14 (1.93%) Unix
4 10 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.28%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) AIX
8 1 (0.14%) Android
8 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.14%) Solaris
8 1 (0.14%) Windows NT
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.14%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (31.36%) Agile
2 220 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
3 143 (19.67%) DevOps
4 126 (17.33%) Project Management
5 107 (14.72%) Software Testing
6 98 (13.48%) Test Automation
7 93 (12.79%) Requirements Gathering
8 87 (11.97%) Project Delivery
9 79 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 78 (10.73%) Customer Service
11 77 (10.59%) Business Intelligence
12 75 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 75 (10.32%) Test Strategy
13 74 (10.18%) Regression Testing
14 72 (9.90%) ERP
15 71 (9.77%) SDLC
16 70 (9.63%) Functional Testing
16 70 (9.63%) Migration
17 67 (9.22%) Process Improvement
18 64 (8.80%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 159 (21.87%) SQL
2 71 (9.77%) C#
3 65 (8.94%) JavaScript
4 44 (6.05%) T-SQL
5 38 (5.23%) Java
6 35 (4.81%) Python
7 34 (4.68%) TypeScript
8 31 (4.26%) VB
9 28 (3.85%) VB.NET
9 28 (3.85%) VB6
10 16 (2.20%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.93%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.79%) C++
13 12 (1.65%) VBA
14 8 (1.10%) Rust
15 5 (0.69%) R
16 4 (0.55%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.41%) C
17 3 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 168 (23.11%) Degree
2 43 (5.91%) Security Cleared
3 34 (4.68%) SC Cleared
4 27 (3.71%) ISTQB
5 21 (2.89%) ISEB
6 17 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (0.96%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.83%) CSPO
10 6 (0.83%) IIBA
10 6 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.69%) MCITP
11 5 (0.69%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.55%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.55%) HND
13 3 (0.41%) A+ Certification
14 2 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (21.60%) QA
2 24 (3.30%) SLA
3 20 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.75%) GDPR
4 9 (1.24%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.83%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.28%) EMIR
6 2 (0.28%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.28%) MiFID
6 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.28%) PMO
7 1 (0.14%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 15 (2.06%) Firmware
2 10 (1.38%) Docker
2 10 (1.38%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (0.96%) Grafana
1 7 (0.96%) Kibana
2 6 (0.83%) Control-M
3 5 (0.69%) SCCM
4 4 (0.55%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.28%) Ansible
5 2 (0.28%) logstash
5 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.28%) Terraform
6 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.14%) Sysprep
6 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 168 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.43%) Oracle
3 35 (4.81%) Salesforce
4 29 (3.99%) SAP
5 21 (2.89%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.38%) Charles River
6 10 (1.38%) Splunk
7 9 (1.24%) Google
8 7 (0.96%) Genesys
8 7 (0.96%) Intapp
9 6 (0.83%) Workday
10 5 (0.69%) Virgin Media
10 5 (0.69%) YouTube
11 4 (0.55%) Cadence
11 4 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.55%) Quadient
12 3 (0.41%) Adobe
12 3 (0.41%) Cisco
12 3 (0.41%) Databricks
12 3 (0.41%) Meraki