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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 114 112
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +16
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 21 14 12
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.84% 0.63% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.72% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 12
10th Percentile £32,750 - -
25th Percentile £35,938 £29,000 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £32,500 £39,250
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -17.20% -12.78%
75th Percentile £58,750 £44,063 £61,250
90th Percentile £62,125 £59,625 £66,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +6.36%

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 1,987 1,955 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.86% 88.62% 85.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 824 1,284
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,575 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,125 £35,000 £36,131
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +1 8 £57,500 +76.92% 4
Northamptonshire +8 4 £36,250 -48.21% 4
Nottinghamshire - 4 £37,500 - 11
Lincolnshire -12 3 - - 4
Derbyshire - 2 £50,000 - 7
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 (9.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.76%) SAP Business One
2 1 (4.76%) SAP CO
2 1 (4.76%) SAP FI
2 1 (4.76%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (4.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Dynamics 365
1 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) BigCommerce
2 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
2 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Power BI
2 3 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.76%) Power Query
3 1 (4.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 13 (61.90%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Retail
3 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.76%) Law
6 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Financial Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Systems Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Test Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Finance Systems Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Tester
4 2 (9.52%) ERP Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Technical Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Change Manager
5 1 (4.76%) JDE Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Junior
5 1 (4.76%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Junior Test Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Junior Tester
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) ERP
2 6 (28.57%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Business Analysis
2 6 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (23.81%) System Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Logistics
4 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Performance Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (19.05%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (19.05%) Validation
5 3 (14.29%) Data Management
5 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 3 (14.29%) Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle
2 5 (23.81%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) JD Edwards
3 1 (4.76%) Magma