User Acceptance Testing Job Trends in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 124 145
Rank change year-on-year -33 +21 -35
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 16 19 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.31% 0.86% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 1.00% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 40
10th Percentile £30,000 £44,675 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,625 £51,563 £28,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +55.56% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £85,000 £62,513
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +9.09% -0.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,724 1,896 3,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.31% 85.52% 77.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,422 1,032 2,569
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,938 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,250 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing User Acceptance Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing User Acceptance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Leicestershire -24 8 £30,000 -57.14% 7
Nottinghamshire -15 5 £70,000 - 6
Northamptonshire 0 2 - - 5
Derbyshire +1 1 £52,500 +69.35% 4
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (6.25%) SAP EWM
2 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (6.25%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DTS
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Business Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Change and Release Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Change Control Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Change Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Product Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Release Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Product Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Test Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Support
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) SAP WM Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) SAP WM Support
5 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) iSeries
4 1 (6.25%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
1 8 (50.00%) Validation
2 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (31.25%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (31.25%) Decision-Making
3 5 (31.25%) ERP
3 5 (31.25%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (25.00%) CRM
4 4 (25.00%) Logistics
4 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 4 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (18.75%) Change Control
5 3 (18.75%) Customer Engagement
5 3 (18.75%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) Release Management
5 3 (18.75%) Smoke Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (18.75%) Supply Chain Management
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) SAP