London User Acceptance Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the London 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	131	124
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	1314	1618
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.644 %	0.716 %
As % of the category below	2.717 %	2.796 %
Salaries quoted	1036	1217
Average minimum salary	£49,090	£51,522
Average salary	£52,756	£55,503
% change on same period last year	-4.95 %
Average maximum salary	£56,421	£59,485
UK excluding London average salary	£38,362	£37,210
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Processes & Methodologies London
Matching permanent IT job ads	48361	57864
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	23.71 %	25.62 %
Salaries quoted	39813	45628
Average minimum salary	£49,752	£50,020
Average salary	£54,506	£54,780
% change on same period last year	-0.50 %
Average maximum salary	£59,260	£59,541
UK excluding London average salary	£42,840	£44,076
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
User Acceptance Testing England

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing User Acceptance Testing across the London 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 ads citing User Acceptance Testing across the London region.

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the London region over the past 3 months.

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 London region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	City of London	-7	467	£53,156	-8.30 %
2	Docklands, London	+6	48	£65,712	+16.25 %
3	Croydon	+15	35	£35,314	+17.71 %
4	Luton	-	18	£37,353	-
5	Barnet	-	8	£43,500	-
6	Canary Wharf	-29	6	£54,583	-23.15 %
7	Surbiton	-3	3	£38,833	+19.48 %
8	Hammersmith	-11	2	£55,000	-
9	Romford	-	1	£34,000	-
9	Brentford	-	1	£35,000	-

User Acceptance Testing England

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the London region citing User Acceptance Testing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing User Acceptance Testing.

1 847 (31.76 %) Finance 2 665 (24.93 %) Banking 3 499 (18.71 %) SQL 4 452 (16.95 %) Derivative 5 399 (14.96 %) Investment Banking 6 375 (14.06 %) ISEB 7 359 (13.46 %) QA 8 347 (13.01 %) System Testing 9 319 (11.96 %) Oracle 10 304 (11.40 %) Business Analysis 11 294 (11.02 %) Project Management 12 290 (10.87 %) .NET 13 271 (10.16 %) TestDirector 14 261 (9.786 %) Test Scripting 15 240 (8.999 %) Unix

16 239 (8.961 %) Insurance 17 236 (8.849 %) Java 18 220 (8.249 %) UML 19 218 (8.174 %) SQL Server 20 198 (7.424 %) Regression Testing 21 192 (7.199 %) Front Office 21 192 (7.199 %) Test Management 22 179 (6.712 %) Equities 23 167 (6.262 %) C# 24 166 (6.224 %) Asset Management 25 153 (5.737 %) Integration Testing 26 151 (5.662 %) Use Case 27 145 (5.437 %) Fixed Income 28 144 (5.399 %) Back Office 29 142 (5.324 %) Degree

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the London region citing User Acceptance Testing also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 290 (10.87 %) .NET 2 128 (4.799 %) XML 3 66 (2.475 %) J2EE 4 65 (2.437 %) ASP.NET 5 53 (1.987 %) HTML 6 45 (1.687 %) WebSphere 7 39 (1.462 %) WebServices 8 38 (1.425 %) ASP 9 32 (1.200 %) CSS 9 32 (1.200 %) AJAX 10 31 (1.162 %) XSLT 11 30 (1.125 %) Middleware 12 26 (0.975 %) .NET Framework 13 22 (0.825 %) WinForms 14 18 (0.675 %) JMS 15 15 (0.562 %) JSP 16 13 (0.487 %) FIX Protocol 17 12 (0.450 %) XHTML 18 10 (0.375 %) LAMP 18 10 (0.375 %) Django	Application Platforms 1 26 (0.975 %) IIS 2 18 (0.675 %) SharePoint 3 14 (0.525 %) Apache 4 13 (0.487 %) WebLogic 5 12 (0.450 %) Lotus Notes 6 10 (0.375 %) ArcGIS 7 8 (0.300 %) CMS 8 7 (0.262 %) Oracle Workflow 8 7 (0.262 %) Lotus Domino 9 6 (0.225 %) JBoss 9 6 (0.225 %) SAS 10 5 (0.187 %) MS Exchange 10 5 (0.187 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 4 (0.150 %) Tomcat 11 4 (0.150 %) Oracle Application Server 11 4 (0.150 %) ESB 11 4 (0.150 %) WebSphere Message Broker 12 3 (0.112 %) WebSphere MQ 12 3 (0.112 %) ArcSDE 12 3 (0.112 %) ArcIMS
Applications 1 87 (3.262 %) MS Visio 2 73 (2.737 %) MS Excel 3 69 (2.587 %) MS Office 4 48 (1.800 %) MS Project 5 14 (0.525 %) MS PowerPoint 6 7 (0.262 %) CA Clarity 7 5 (0.187 %) Photoshop 8 3 (0.112 %) Acrobat	Business Applications 1 23 (0.862 %) Oracle EBS 2 21 (0.787 %) HiPortfolio 3 20 (0.750 %) RMDS 4 19 (0.712 %) Oracle Applications 5 16 (0.600 %) Oracle Financials 6 15 (0.562 %) Oracle 11i 7 14 (0.525 %) Fidessa 7 14 (0.525 %) Summit 8 11 (0.412 %) SAP MM 8 11 (0.412 %) Microsoft CRM 8 11 (0.412 %) Murex MxG2000 9 9 (0.337 %) SAP HR 9 9 (0.337 %) SAP Payroll 9 9 (0.337 %) Endur 9 9 (0.337 %) Findur 10 8 (0.300 %) SAP FI 10 8 (0.300 %) SalesLogix 10 8 (0.300 %) SAP CO 10 8 (0.300 %) SAP FI/CO 11 7 (0.262 %) ADP Wilco Gloss
Communications & Networking 1 72 (2.700 %) Internet 2 34 (1.275 %) TCP/IP 3 26 (0.975 %) Extranet 4 20 (0.750 %) BSS 5 18 (0.675 %) SAN 6 17 (0.637 %) Intranet 7 12 (0.450 %) Broadband 8 11 (0.412 %) WAN 8 11 (0.412 %) Firewall 9 10 (0.375 %) VPN 10 7 (0.262 %) MPLS 10 7 (0.262 %) BGP 10 7 (0.262 %) VoIP 10 7 (0.262 %) ISDN 10 7 (0.262 %) Frame Relay 11 6 (0.225 %) LLU 11 6 (0.225 %) ADSL 11 6 (0.225 %) FTP 12 4 (0.150 %) LAN 13 3 (0.112 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 218 (8.174 %) SQL Server 2 93 (3.487 %) SQL Server 2005 3 65 (2.437 %) Datawarehouse 4 64 (2.400 %) SQL Server 2000 5 50 (1.875 %) BusinessObjects 6 38 (1.425 %) Oracle 10g 7 26 (0.975 %) Crystal Reports 7 26 (0.975 %) Oracle 9i 8 25 (0.937 %) MS Access 9 24 (0.900 %) RDBMS 10 23 (0.862 %) TOAD 10 23 (0.862 %) Oracle Reports 11 22 (0.825 %) DB2 12 19 (0.712 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 18 (0.675 %) DTS 14 16 (0.600 %) Database Marketing 15 13 (0.487 %) ETL 16 12 (0.450 %) Data Mining 16 12 (0.450 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 12 (0.450 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 271 (10.16 %) TestDirector 2 68 (2.550 %) QuickTest Pro 3 53 (1.987 %) WinRunner 4 38 (1.425 %) LoadRunner 5 36 (1.350 %) Selenium 6 19 (0.712 %) MSI 7 17 (0.637 %) NUnit 8 14 (0.525 %) InstallShield 9 12 (0.450 %) Rational Robot 10 11 (0.412 %) FitNesse 11 10 (0.375 %) Ant 11 10 (0.375 %) ClearCase 12 8 (0.300 %) Oracle Forms 12 8 (0.300 %) ClearQuest 12 8 (0.300 %) CruiseControl 12 8 (0.300 %) Subversion 13 7 (0.262 %) Flash 14 6 (0.225 %) Visual Studio 14 6 (0.225 %) Eclipse 15 5 (0.187 %) JUnit	General 1 847 (31.76 %) Finance 2 665 (24.93 %) Banking 3 399 (14.96 %) Investment Banking 4 239 (8.961 %) Insurance 5 192 (7.199 %) Front Office 6 144 (5.399 %) Back Office 7 103 (3.862 %) Retail 8 89 (3.337 %) Marketing 9 88 (3.300 %) Telecoms 10 60 (2.250 %) Pensions 11 54 (2.025 %) Billing 12 48 (1.800 %) Financial Institution 13 43 (1.612 %) Legal 14 38 (1.425 %) Health 15 32 (1.200 %) Education 16 24 (0.900 %) General Ledger 17 23 (0.862 %) Law 18 17 (0.637 %) Publishing 18 17 (0.637 %) Private Banking 19 13 (0.487 %) Games
Job Titles 1 1317 (49.38 %) Analyst 2 752 (28.20 %) Business Analyst 3 372 (13.95 %) Test Manager 4 264 (9.899 %) Developer 5 256 (9.599 %) Test Analyst 6 217 (8.136 %) Tester 7 127 (4.762 %) Project Manager 8 122 (4.574 %) Senior Analyst 9 102 (3.825 %) Consultant 10 97 (3.637 %) Systems Analyst 11 87 (3.262 %) Support Analyst 12 83 (3.112 %) Team Leader 13 71 (2.662 %) Investment Banking Business Analyst 14 67 (2.512 %) Senior Business Analyst 15 55 (2.062 %) Java Developer 16 53 (1.987 %) Analyst Developer 16 53 (1.987 %) Programmer 17 50 (1.875 %) Test Team Leader 18 48 (1.800 %) QA Analyst 19 47 (1.762 %) Applications Support	Miscellaneous 1 452 (16.95 %) Derivative 2 179 (6.712 %) Equities 3 166 (6.224 %) Asset Management 4 145 (5.437 %) Fixed Income 5 130 (4.874 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 105 (3.937 %) Equity Derivative 7 61 (2.287 %) Credit Risk 8 58 (2.175 %) Management Information System 9 38 (1.425 %) Fund Management 10 32 (1.200 %) Credit Derivative 11 28 (1.050 %) Market Risk 12 15 (0.562 %) Interest Rate Derivative 12 15 (0.562 %) NHS 13 14 (0.525 %) Replication 14 11 (0.412 %) AS400 14 11 (0.412 %) Mainframe 15 10 (0.375 %) Client/Server 16 8 (0.300 %) PMI 16 8 (0.300 %) Statistics 17 7 (0.262 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 240 (8.999 %) Unix 2 136 (5.099 %) Windows 3 65 (2.437 %) Linux 4 44 (1.650 %) Solaris 5 20 (0.750 %) Windows 2000 6 17 (0.637 %) Windows XP 7 13 (0.487 %) Windows NT 8 12 (0.450 %) AIX 9 5 (0.187 %) Windows Server 2003 10 4 (0.150 %) Fedora 11 3 (0.112 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 347 (13.01 %) System Testing 2 304 (11.40 %) Business Analysis 3 294 (11.02 %) Project Management 4 261 (9.786 %) Test Scripting 5 220 (8.249 %) UML 6 198 (7.424 %) Regression Testing 7 192 (7.199 %) Test Management 8 153 (5.737 %) Integration Testing 9 151 (5.662 %) Use Case 10 126 (4.724 %) Software Testing 11 122 (4.574 %) Change Management 12 117 (4.387 %) PRINCE2 13 106 (3.975 %) Risk Management 14 104 (3.900 %) RUP 15 96 (3.600 %) Automated Testing 15 96 (3.600 %) Investment Management 16 92 (3.450 %) Unit Testing 17 88 (3.300 %) Agile Software Development 18 77 (2.887 %) E-Commerce 19 74 (2.775 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 499 (18.71 %) SQL 2 236 (8.849 %) Java 3 167 (6.262 %) C# 4 135 (5.062 %) VB 5 85 (3.187 %) C++ 6 72 (2.700 %) PL/SQL 7 60 (2.250 %) Transact-SQL 7 60 (2.250 %) JavaScript 8 55 (2.062 %) VBA 9 54 (2.025 %) Perl 10 43 (1.612 %) Shell Script 11 37 (1.387 %) VB.NET 12 32 (1.200 %) C 13 31 (1.162 %) VBScript 14 22 (0.825 %) VB6 15 17 (0.637 %) XPath 16 15 (0.562 %) RPG 17 12 (0.450 %) Python 18 9 (0.337 %) VC++ 18 9 (0.337 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 375 (14.06 %) ISEB 2 142 (5.324 %) Degree 3 33 (1.237 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 16 (0.600 %) ACCA 4 16 (0.600 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 14 (0.525 %) CISA 6 13 (0.487 %) ITIL Certification 6 13 (0.487 %) Microsoft Certification 7 10 (0.375 %) MCAD 7 10 (0.375 %) MCSD 8 8 (0.300 %) ISTQB 9 7 (0.262 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 10 6 (0.225 %) HND 11 3 (0.112 %) Sun Certification 12 2 (0.075 %) MCSA 12 2 (0.075 %) RHCT 13 1 (0.037 %) MCP 13 1 (0.037 %) PMP 13 1 (0.037 %) PMI Certification 13 1 (0.037 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 359 (13.46 %) QA 2 33 (1.237 %) SLA 3 18 (0.675 %) Basel II 4 9 (0.337 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 5 (0.187 %) MiFID 6 2 (0.075 %) ISO9000 6 2 (0.075 %) HL7 6 2 (0.075 %) TickIT	System Software 1 17 (0.637 %) Oracle RMAN 2 11 (0.412 %) Active Directory 3 9 (0.337 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 4 7 (0.262 %) Oracle RAC 5 2 (0.075 %) NFS 5 2 (0.075 %) NetBackup 6 1 (0.037 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 6 1 (0.037 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 11 (0.412 %) AutoSys 2 9 (0.337 %) Tivoli 3 8 (0.300 %) CONTROL-M 4 2 (0.075 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 1 (0.037 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 319 (11.96 %) Oracle 2 124 (4.649 %) Microsoft 3 94 (3.525 %) Sybase 4 57 (2.137 %) Murex 5 51 (1.912 %) SAP 6 50 (1.875 %) Business Objects 7 41 (1.537 %) Bloomberg 8 36 (1.350 %) IBM 9 35 (1.312 %) Reuters 10 30 (1.125 %) Niku 11 28 (1.050 %) LatentZero 12 23 (0.862 %) Primavera 12 23 (0.862 %) TIBCO 13 20 (0.750 %) Sun 14 18 (0.675 %) Actuate 15 17 (0.637 %) Siebel 16 14 (0.525 %) Citrix 16 14 (0.525 %) Agresso 17 13 (0.487 %) Wall Street Systems 18 12 (0.450 %) OpenLink