User Acceptance Testing Job Trends in the East of England

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 140 157
Rank change year-on-year -39 +17 -35
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 26 32 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.32% 0.95% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.10% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 19 25 9
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,956 £34,700
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,050 £53,000 £46,297
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.48% +19.48%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £75,000
90th Percentile £69,250 £62,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,702 2,908 3,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.93% 86.29% 75.22%
Number of salaries quoted 4,176 1,545 1,707
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,298
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.66% -6.72%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in the East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 24 September 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
Hertfordshire -29 9 £55,000 -8.33% 31
Bedfordshire - 7 £35,000 - 7
Essex -30 5 £45,000 - 9
Cambridgeshire -31 4 £45,050 +36.05% 5
Suffolk +10 1 £60,000 +13.21%
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (7.69%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Infor CloudSuite
1 2 (7.69%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (3.85%) SAP CO
2 1 (3.85%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.85%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (3.85%) SAP PS
2 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.85%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
2 4 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (15.38%) SaaS
3 3 (11.54%) Azure
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.85%) AWS
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Intranet
1 2 (7.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
1 4 (15.38%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (3.85%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Selenium
2 4 (15.38%) Cypress.io
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 12 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Manufacturing
5 3 (11.54%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Retail
6 2 (7.69%) Billing
6 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Social Housing
7 1 (3.85%) Automotive
7 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Business Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Consultant
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) QA Leader
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Test Leader
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Coordinator
5 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Support Officer
5 2 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (3.85%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Playwright
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.85%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.69%) FMCG
4 1 (3.85%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) NHS
4 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
1 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Continuous Improvement
1 15 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
2 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
3 7 (26.92%) Requirements Gathering
3 7 (26.92%) System Testing
4 6 (23.08%) Agile
4 6 (23.08%) Change Management
4 6 (23.08%) Data Analysis
4 6 (23.08%) ERP
4 6 (23.08%) Regression Testing
4 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (19.23%) Manual Testing
5 5 (19.23%) Migration
5 5 (19.23%) Process Improvement
5 5 (19.23%) SDLC
5 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 4 (15.38%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
3 2 (7.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.85%) ACCA
3 1 (3.85%) CIMA
3 1 (3.85%) CIPD
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (11.54%) Informatica
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco
4 2 (7.69%) Infor
4 2 (7.69%) Meraki
5 1 (3.85%) SAP