England User Acceptance Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chorley Cirencester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymm Manchester Market Drayton Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Ives Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	150	156
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	2419	2917
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.274 %	1.196 %
As % of the category below	2.312 %	2.314 %
Salaries quoted	1890	2264
Average minimum salary	£41,533	£42,672
Average salary	£45,030	£45,999
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Average maximum salary	£48,528	£49,326
UK excluding London average salary	£39,388	£36,287
% change on same period last year	+8.54 %
Processes & Methodologies England
Matching permanent IT job ads	104614	126086
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	55.09 %	51.72 %
Salaries quoted	86306	101070
Average minimum salary	£42,805	£44,508
Average salary	£46,885	£48,647
% change on same period last year	-3.62 %
Average maximum salary	£50,964	£52,787
UK excluding London average salary	£42,575	£44,522
% change on same period last year	-4.37 %
User Acceptance Testing UK

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the England region.

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+4	1239	£50,222	-6.86 %
South East	+40	479	£42,205	+15.87 %
East of England	+13	181	£46,375	+24.26 %
South West	-40	154	£36,961	-2.18 %
North West	+25	118	£32,393	-3.23 %
Yorkshire	+4	106	£31,994	-6.01 %
West Midlands	-36	72	£36,833	+4.33 %
East Midlands	+28	39	£32,583	+1.17 %
North East	+1	22	£41,950	-3.56 %
Midlands	+15	4	£37,000	-13.28 %

User Acceptance Testing UK

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing User Acceptance Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited User Acceptance Testing.

1 1694 (32.91 %) Finance 2 987 (19.18 %) SQL 3 799 (15.52 %) ISEB 4 759 (14.75 %) Banking 5 702 (13.64 %) QA 6 686 (13.33 %) Business Analysis 7 604 (11.73 %) Project Management 8 598 (11.62 %) .NET 9 582 (11.31 %) Test Scripting 10 579 (11.25 %) System Testing 11 558 (10.84 %) Oracle 12 459 (8.918 %) TestDirector 13 447 (8.685 %) Insurance 14 428 (8.316 %) Derivative 15 405 (7.869 %) UNIX

16 377 (7.325 %) SQL Server 17 362 (7.033 %) Degree 18 360 (6.994 %) Microsoft 19 352 (6.839 %) Investment Banking 20 341 (6.625 %) Regression Testing 21 331 (6.431 %) Java 22 329 (6.392 %) UML 23 320 (6.217 %) Retail 24 299 (5.809 %) Windows 25 297 (5.770 %) C# 26 285 (5.537 %) XML 27 283 (5.498 %) PRINCE2 28 273 (5.304 %) Integration Testing 29 270 (5.246 %) Software Testing 30 267 (5.187 %) Pensions

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing User Acceptance Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 598 (11.62 %) .NET 2 285 (5.537 %) XML 3 144 (2.798 %) ASP.NET 4 128 (2.487 %) J2EE 5 122 (2.370 %) HTML 6 86 (1.671 %) ASP 7 76 (1.477 %) WebSphere 8 69 (1.341 %) WebServices 9 59 (1.146 %) CSS 10 52 (1.010 %) Middleware 11 51 (0.991 %) .NET Framework 12 35 (0.680 %) AJAX 13 34 (0.661 %) XSLT 14 29 (0.563 %) XHTML 15 28 (0.544 %) Struts 16 23 (0.447 %) JSP 17 22 (0.427 %) Spring 18 21 (0.408 %) FIX Protocol 19 19 (0.369 %) MFC 19 19 (0.369 %) MAPI	Application Platforms 1 56 (1.088 %) SAS 2 55 (1.069 %) SharePoint 3 53 (1.030 %) Apache 4 43 (0.835 %) IIS 5 35 (0.680 %) WebLogic 6 27 (0.525 %) MS Exchange 7 24 (0.466 %) CICS 7 24 (0.466 %) Oracle Workflow 8 20 (0.389 %) Lotus Notes 9 19 (0.369 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 17 (0.330 %) CMS 11 14 (0.272 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 14 (0.272 %) WebSphere Message Broker 12 13 (0.253 %) TeamSite 13 11 (0.214 %) JBoss 14 10 (0.194 %) Tomcat 14 10 (0.194 %) WebSphere MQ 14 10 (0.194 %) ArcGIS 15 9 (0.175 %) Oracle Application Server 15 9 (0.175 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 244 (4.741 %) MS Excel 2 168 (3.264 %) MS Office 3 123 (2.390 %) MS Visio 4 68 (1.321 %) MS Project 5 44 (0.855 %) MS PowerPoint 6 10 (0.194 %) CA Clarity 6 10 (0.194 %) Photoshop 7 7 (0.136 %) SPSS 8 6 (0.117 %) Spreadsheet 9 4 (0.078 %) AutoCAD 9 4 (0.078 %) MATLAB 10 1 (0.019 %) S-PLUS 10 1 (0.019 %) Fireworks 10 1 (0.019 %) ArcView	Business Applications 1 78 (1.515 %) Oracle Applications 2 56 (1.088 %) Oracle EBS 3 35 (0.680 %) Oracle 11i 4 31 (0.602 %) SAP HR 5 30 (0.583 %) Microsoft CRM 6 28 (0.544 %) Oracle Financials 7 21 (0.408 %) SAP Payroll 8 18 (0.350 %) Oracle HRMS 9 17 (0.330 %) Endur 10 14 (0.272 %) SAP FI/CO 10 14 (0.272 %) SAP CO 10 14 (0.272 %) Murex MxG2000 10 14 (0.272 %) SAP FI 10 14 (0.272 %) HiPortfolio 10 14 (0.272 %) Dynamics CRM 11 11 (0.214 %) Summit 11 11 (0.214 %) SAP MM 11 11 (0.214 %) Findur 12 10 (0.194 %) Oracle CRM 12 10 (0.194 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 192 (3.730 %) Internet 2 51 (0.991 %) Extranet 3 50 (0.971 %) TCP/IP 4 36 (0.699 %) Firewall 5 33 (0.641 %) BSS 6 20 (0.389 %) Intranet 7 19 (0.369 %) IMAP 7 19 (0.369 %) SMTP 8 16 (0.311 %) FTP 9 13 (0.253 %) VPN 9 13 (0.253 %) SAN 9 13 (0.253 %) CTI 10 12 (0.233 %) LAN 11 11 (0.214 %) VoIP 11 11 (0.214 %) Broadband 12 10 (0.194 %) Bluetooth 13 9 (0.175 %) WAN 14 6 (0.117 %) HTTP 15 5 (0.097 %) HTTPS 16 4 (0.078 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 377 (7.325 %) SQL Server 2 157 (3.050 %) Datawarehouse 3 96 (1.865 %) SQL Server 2005 4 76 (1.477 %) Oracle 10g 5 72 (1.399 %) BusinessObjects 6 63 (1.224 %) Crystal Reports 7 60 (1.166 %) SQL Server 2000 8 56 (1.088 %) TOAD 9 55 (1.069 %) DB2 10 50 (0.971 %) Oracle Reports 11 48 (0.933 %) Oracle 9i 12 47 (0.913 %) RDBMS 13 43 (0.835 %) Oracle Discoverer 14 42 (0.816 %) MS Access 15 39 (0.758 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 16 38 (0.738 %) DTS 17 31 (0.602 %) ETL 17 31 (0.602 %) SQL Server 7 18 29 (0.563 %) Oracle 8/8i 19 28 (0.544 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 459 (8.918 %) TestDirector 2 163 (3.167 %) QuickTest Pro 3 120 (2.331 %) WinRunner 4 96 (1.865 %) LoadRunner 5 47 (0.913 %) Selenium 6 39 (0.758 %) Rational Robot 7 30 (0.583 %) MSI 8 23 (0.447 %) Visual Studio 9 19 (0.369 %) QADirector 10 17 (0.330 %) Oracle Forms 11 16 (0.311 %) Ant 12 13 (0.253 %) Flash 12 13 (0.253 %) FitNesse 13 11 (0.214 %) Eclipse 13 11 (0.214 %) InstallShield 14 10 (0.194 %) JUnit 15 9 (0.175 %) ClearQuest 15 9 (0.175 %) Subversion 16 7 (0.136 %) NUnit 16 7 (0.136 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 1694 (32.91 %) Finance 2 759 (14.75 %) Banking 3 447 (8.685 %) Insurance 4 352 (6.839 %) Investment Banking 5 320 (6.217 %) Retail 6 267 (5.187 %) Pensions 7 242 (4.702 %) Front Office 8 204 (3.963 %) Marketing 9 197 (3.827 %) Telecoms 10 157 (3.050 %) Health 11 154 (2.992 %) Back Office 12 125 (2.429 %) Billing 13 95 (1.846 %) Advertising 14 86 (1.671 %) Education 15 81 (1.574 %) Financial Institution 16 66 (1.282 %) Manufacturing 17 47 (0.913 %) Legal 18 38 (0.738 %) Construction 18 38 (0.738 %) Games 19 36 (0.699 %) Government
Job Titles 1 2663 (51.74 %) Analyst 2 1430 (27.78 %) Business Analyst 3 640 (12.43 %) Test Analyst 4 508 (9.870 %) Test Manager 5 499 (9.695 %) Tester 6 433 (8.413 %) Developer 7 344 (6.684 %) Senior Analyst 8 319 (6.198 %) Consultant 9 289 (5.615 %) Systems Analyst 10 188 (3.653 %) Programmer 11 184 (3.575 %) Business Systems Analyst 12 177 (3.439 %) Team Leader 13 165 (3.206 %) Analyst Programmer 14 136 (2.642 %) Project Manager 15 135 (2.623 %) Senior Test Analyst 16 122 (2.370 %) Test Team Leader 17 105 (2.040 %) Support Analyst 17 105 (2.040 %) QA Analyst 18 93 (1.807 %) DBA 19 91 (1.768 %) Senior Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 428 (8.316 %) Derivative 2 181 (3.517 %) Equities 3 152 (2.953 %) Fixed Income 4 131 (2.545 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 107 (2.079 %) Equity Derivative 6 87 (1.690 %) Client/Server 7 86 (1.671 %) Management Information System 8 63 (1.224 %) AS400 9 62 (1.205 %) Credit Risk 10 49 (0.952 %) Mainframe 11 43 (0.835 %) Mathematics 12 35 (0.680 %) Computer Science 12 35 (0.680 %) EPoS 13 32 (0.622 %) Market Risk 14 26 (0.505 %) Credit Derivative 15 21 (0.408 %) Replication 16 18 (0.350 %) NHS 16 18 (0.350 %) Interest Rate Derivative 17 16 (0.311 %) IBM Mainframe 18 14 (0.272 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 405 (7.869 %) UNIX 2 299 (5.809 %) Windows 3 97 (1.885 %) Linux 4 83 (1.613 %) Solaris 5 33 (0.641 %) Windows XP 6 25 (0.486 %) Windows NT 7 18 (0.350 %) Windows 2000 8 16 (0.311 %) AIX 9 12 (0.233 %) Windows Server 2003 10 8 (0.155 %) MVS 10 8 (0.155 %) HPUX 11 5 (0.097 %) OS/400 11 5 (0.097 %) Mac OS X 12 4 (0.078 %) Fedora 13 2 (0.039 %) Windows Mobile 13 2 (0.039 %) SUSE 14 1 (0.019 %) i5/OS 14 1 (0.019 %) Mac OS X Server 14 1 (0.019 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 686 (13.33 %) Business Analysis 2 604 (11.73 %) Project Management 3 582 (11.31 %) Test Scripting 4 579 (11.25 %) System Testing 5 341 (6.625 %) Regression Testing 6 329 (6.392 %) UML 7 283 (5.498 %) PRINCE2 8 273 (5.304 %) Integration Testing 9 270 (5.246 %) Software Testing 10 255 (4.954 %) Test Management 11 212 (4.119 %) Automated Testing 12 209 (4.061 %) Use Case 13 184 (3.575 %) Systems Analysis 14 182 (3.536 %) CRM 15 181 (3.517 %) E-Commerce 16 179 (3.478 %) Web Development 17 174 (3.381 %) Unit Testing 18 172 (3.342 %) RUP 19 165 (3.206 %) Migration 20 163 (3.167 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 987 (19.18 %) SQL 2 331 (6.431 %) Java 3 297 (5.770 %) C# 4 236 (4.585 %) VB 5 132 (2.565 %) VB.NET 6 110 (2.137 %) PL/SQL 7 97 (1.885 %) VBA 8 96 (1.865 %) Transact-SQL 9 90 (1.749 %) C++ 10 86 (1.671 %) JavaScript 11 68 (1.321 %) VB6 12 63 (1.224 %) Shell Script 13 62 (1.205 %) C 14 61 (1.185 %) Perl 15 60 (1.166 %) VBScript 16 54 (1.049 %) COBOL 17 38 (0.738 %) RPG 18 30 (0.583 %) VC++ 19 19 (0.369 %) PHP 20 17 (0.330 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 799 (15.52 %) ISEB 2 362 (7.033 %) Degree 3 71 (1.379 %) ISTQB 4 55 (1.069 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 33 (0.641 %) Microsoft Certification 6 23 (0.447 %) MCP 7 19 (0.369 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 18 (0.350 %) ITIL Certification 9 15 (0.291 %) ACCA 10 12 (0.233 %) CISA 11 10 (0.194 %) HND 12 6 (0.117 %) Citrix Certification 12 6 (0.117 %) CIPD 12 6 (0.117 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 13 5 (0.097 %) Chartered Engineer 13 5 (0.097 %) CIMA 14 4 (0.078 %) MBA 14 4 (0.078 %) MCSD 14 4 (0.078 %) NVQ Level 3 15 3 (0.058 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 702 (13.64 %) QA 2 46 (0.894 %) SLA 3 39 (0.758 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 17 (0.330 %) Basel II 5 14 (0.272 %) GxP 6 10 (0.194 %) HL7 7 8 (0.155 %) ISO9001 8 5 (0.097 %) MiFID 9 4 (0.078 %) ISO8583 10 3 (0.058 %) GAMP 11 1 (0.019 %) GCP 11 1 (0.019 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 29 (0.563 %) Active Directory 1 29 (0.563 %) Oracle RMAN 2 16 (0.311 %) Oracle RAC 3 9 (0.175 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 4 6 (0.117 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 5 4 (0.078 %) MSMQ 6 3 (0.058 %) VMware ESX 6 3 (0.058 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 2 (0.039 %) NetBackup 7 2 (0.039 %) NFS 8 1 (0.019 %) Backup Exec 8 1 (0.019 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 24 (0.466 %) AutoSys 2 15 (0.291 %) CONTROL-M 3 10 (0.194 %) Tivoli 4 5 (0.097 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 2 (0.039 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 2 (0.039 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 2 (0.039 %) BMC Marimba 6 1 (0.019 %) ServiceCenter 6 1 (0.019 %) ARCserve 6 1 (0.019 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 558 (10.84 %) Oracle 2 360 (6.994 %) Microsoft 3 132 (2.565 %) SAP 4 99 (1.923 %) Sybase 5 75 (1.457 %) Siebel 6 72 (1.399 %) Business Objects 7 64 (1.243 %) IBM 8 47 (0.913 %) Sun 9 37 (0.719 %) Murex 10 32 (0.622 %) Reuters 11 28 (0.544 %) Citrix 12 27 (0.525 %) Bloomberg 13 24 (0.466 %) JD Edwards 14 22 (0.427 %) HP 15 21 (0.408 %) Cognos 15 21 (0.408 %) Lotus 16 20 (0.389 %) Agresso 16 20 (0.389 %) OpenLink 17 19 (0.369 %) VERITAS 18 17 (0.330 %) Primavera