The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 52 101 113
Rank change year-on-year
+49 +12
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 104 44 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 4.254% 1.737% 1.581%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.553% 2.377% 2.061%
Number of salaries quoted 88 41 43
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,750 £35,000 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £56,400
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -3.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1873 1851 2620
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 76.61% 73.08% 76.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1483 1493 2116
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £31,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
User Acceptance Testing
East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire User Acceptance Testing Salary Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Hertfordshire User Acceptance Testing Salary Histogram

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Welwyn Garden City -3 33 £50,000 +5.26%
Watford +37 27 £45,000 -10.00%
St Albans +10 20 £47,500 -
Hemel Hempstead +5 6 £38,500 +79.06%
Stevenage +9 2 £35,000 +3.70%
Welwyn - 1 £47,500 -
User Acceptance Testing
East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 72 (45.57%) Retail
2 64 (40.51%) E-Commerce
3 50 (31.65%) Agile Software Development
4 41 (25.95%) Marketing
5 37 (23.42%) SQL
6 32 (20.25%) ISEB
6 32 (20.25%) Scrum
6 32 (20.25%) Finance
7 31 (19.62%) MS Visio
8 29 (18.35%) Oracle
9 28 (17.72%) MS Excel
9 28 (17.72%) Web Development
9 28 (17.72%) HP Quality Center
9 28 (17.72%) Waterfall
9 28 (17.72%) User Stories
10 27 (17.09%) System Testing
10 27 (17.09%) MS Project
10 27 (17.09%) Project Management
11 24 (15.19%) Integration Testing
12 23 (14.56%) Test Scripting
12 23 (14.56%) Business Analysis
13 22 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (13.29%) Analytics
14 21 (13.29%) SEO
15 20 (12.66%) QA
16 19 (12.03%) Test Management
16 19 (12.03%) SAP
17 17 (10.76%) Windows
17 17 (10.76%) Linux
17 17 (10.76%) C

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (1.899%) HTML
2 2 (1.266%) XML
2 2 (1.266%) ASP
2 2 (1.266%) CGI
3 1 (0.633%) JNDI
3 1 (0.633%) JMS
3 1 (0.633%) Middleware
3 1 (0.633%) .NET
3 1 (0.633%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.633%) JDBC
3 1 (0.633%) SOAP
3 1 (0.633%) Web Services
3 1 (0.633%) XSL
3 1 (0.633%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 8 (5.063%) Magento
2 3 (1.899%) Kentico
2 3 (1.899%) Apache
3 2 (1.266%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.633%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.633%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (19.62%) MS Visio
2 28 (17.72%) MS Excel
3 27 (17.09%) MS Project
4 9 (5.696%) MS Office
5 5 (3.165%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (8.228%) SAP FI
1 13 (8.228%) SAP FI/CO
1 13 (8.228%) SAP CO
2 9 (5.696%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (3.165%) SiteCatalyst
4 2 (1.266%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.228%) SAN
1 13 (8.228%) Broadband
1 13 (8.228%) LAN
2 2 (1.266%) ATM
3 1 (0.633%) 3G
3 1 (0.633%) 2G
3 1 (0.633%) Firewall
3 1 (0.633%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.633%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.228%) RDBMS
2 9 (5.696%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (4.430%) SQLPlus
4 6 (3.797%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.165%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.266%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (1.266%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.266%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (4.430%) ProC
2 2 (1.266%) NUnit
2 2 (1.266%) WatiN
3 1 (0.633%) Log4j
3 1 (0.633%) OpenDeploy
General
1 72 (45.57%) Retail
2 41 (25.95%) Marketing
3 32 (20.25%) Finance
4 14 (8.861%) Automotive
5 6 (3.797%) Banking
6 4 (2.532%) Games
7 3 (1.899%) Publishing
7 3 (1.899%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.633%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 90 (56.96%) Analyst
2 64 (40.51%) Business Analyst
3 16 (10.13%) Developer
4 15 (9.494%) Test Analyst
5 14 (8.861%) Test Leader
6 13 (8.228%) Product Manager
7 12 (7.595%) Systems Analyst
8 10 (6.329%) Business Analyst Team Leader
8 10 (6.329%) Team Leader
9 9 (5.696%) Technical Analyst
10 8 (5.063%) Business Systems Analyst
11 7 (4.430%) Oracle Analyst
11 7 (4.430%) Oracle Support Analyst
11 7 (4.430%) Support Analyst
11 7 (4.430%) Ab Initio Developer
12 6 (3.797%) Technical Test Analyst
12 6 (3.797%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
12 6 (3.797%) SAP Analyst
12 6 (3.797%) Financial Analyst
12 6 (3.797%) SAP Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.430%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (1.899%) FMCG
3 2 (1.266%) EPoS
3 2 (1.266%) APACS
3 2 (1.266%) Open Source
3 2 (1.266%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.633%) Mathematics
4 1 (0.633%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.76%) Windows
1 17 (10.76%) Linux
2 13 (8.228%) Windows 7
2 13 (8.228%) Windows XP
2 13 (8.228%) UNIX
3 2 (1.266%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (1.266%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (40.51%) E-Commerce
2 50 (31.65%) Agile Software Development
3 32 (20.25%) Scrum
4 28 (17.72%) Web Development
4 28 (17.72%) Waterfall
4 28 (17.72%) User Stories
5 27 (17.09%) System Testing
5 27 (17.09%) Project Management
6 24 (15.19%) Integration Testing
7 23 (14.56%) Test Scripting
7 23 (14.56%) Business Analysis
8 22 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (13.29%) Analytics
9 21 (13.29%) SEO
10 19 (12.03%) Test Management
11 14 (8.861%) Test Strategy
12 13 (8.228%) Information Architecture
12 13 (8.228%) Dimensional Modelling
12 13 (8.228%) Usability Testing
12 13 (8.228%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.42%) SQL
2 17 (10.76%) C
3 14 (8.861%) Shell Script
4 13 (8.228%) Korn
4 13 (8.228%) Bash shell
5 10 (6.329%) Java
5 10 (6.329%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.532%) Perl
6 4 (2.532%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.266%) C#
8 1 (0.633%) VB6
8 1 (0.633%) PHP
8 1 (0.633%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (20.25%) ISEB
2 14 (8.861%) ISTQB
3 6 (3.797%) Degree
4 3 (1.899%) CBAP
5 1 (0.633%) PMP
5 1 (0.633%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.66%) QA
2 1 (0.633%) SLA
2 1 (0.633%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (0.633%) GxP
System Software
1 13 (8.228%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.633%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.633%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (17.72%) HP Quality Center
2 7 (4.430%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 29 (18.35%) Oracle
2 19 (12.03%) SAP
3 17 (10.76%) Microsoft
4 13 (8.228%) Ab Initio
5 9 (5.696%) HP
6 6 (3.797%) ATG
7 5 (3.165%) Omniture
8 4 (2.532%) PeopleSoft
8 4 (2.532%) Dell
8 4 (2.532%) Apple
9 3 (1.899%) Endeca
9 3 (1.899%) Citrix
10 1 (0.633%) VMware
10 1 (0.633%) Cognizant
10 1 (0.633%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.633%) JBoss
Hertfordshire
Multiple Business Analyst roles - Agile - Retail - Hertfordshire - £40k-£55k - Permanent - Strong benefits... My client, a Global Leading Dotcom looking to cement their place as the world’s elite...
Testing Circle Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum plus strong benefits package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Herts
Operate as part of a scrum team following an Agile methodology... Epics and User Stories 2... UAT test scenarios and scripts 4... - Minimum of BSc or a BA (...
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 23 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Herts, South East
This is a strategic transformation project for Tesco developing upon the recently launched platform for the Tesco Marketplace in General Merchandising and expanding as we roll out ecommerce...
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 23 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
The role will administer, enhance and manage the company source code base via the source control system (currently VSS and SVN migrating to Git)... Knowledge Management: The role...
Crimson Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £45001 per annum + Attractive
Posted: 21 May 2013