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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 144 161
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 -15
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 32 31 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.47% 0.90% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 1.01% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 17 24 29
10th Percentile £42,125 £41,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,050 £53,000 £46,297
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.48% +15.74%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £63,500 £73,750 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% -

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 4,799 3,074 4,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.75% 89.00% 75.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,382 1,646 2,775
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

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 26 July 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 26 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
Cambridgeshire -18 11 £45,050 -15.00% 1
Hertfordshire -25 10 £55,000 -8.33% 4
Essex -14 7 £45,000 -
Suffolk +21 4 £45,000 -15.09% 2
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 7 (21.88%) Apache
1 7 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (21.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.38%) MS Visio
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (6.25%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.25%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (6.25%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
3 1 (3.13%) NetSuite
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (3.13%) SAP CO
3 1 (3.13%) SAP FI
3 1 (3.13%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (3.13%) SAP PS
3 1 (3.13%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Amazon S3
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
1 7 (21.88%) OpenShift
2 5 (15.63%) SaaS
3 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
3 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.13%) OCI
5 1 (3.13%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Intranet
1 2 (6.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Apache Hive
1 7 (21.88%) Impala
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle Database
1 7 (21.88%) Parquet
1 7 (21.88%) Spark SQL
1 7 (21.88%) Tableau
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
1 7 (21.88%) IBM UrbanCode
2 5 (15.63%) Selenium
3 4 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 16 (50.00%) Finance
2 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Banking
3 7 (21.88%) Investment Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Legal
5 3 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Billing
7 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Marketing
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Banking Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Business Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Transformation Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Lead
3 5 (15.63%) Test Leader
4 4 (12.50%) Configuration Specialist
4 4 (12.50%) QA Leader
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Coordinator
5 3 (9.38%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Accountant
6 2 (6.25%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Accountant
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) PySpark
2 4 (12.50%) Playwright
3 3 (9.38%) Pandas
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Continuous Improvement
2 13 (40.63%) Agile
3 11 (34.38%) CI/CD
3 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (28.13%) Analytics
4 9 (28.13%) ERP
4 9 (28.13%) Regression Testing
5 8 (25.00%) Change Management
5 8 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 8 (25.00%) Validation
6 7 (21.88%) AI
6 7 (21.88%) Data Analysis
6 7 (21.88%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (21.88%) Data Transformation
6 7 (21.88%) ETL
6 7 (21.88%) Scrum
6 7 (21.88%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.25%) AAT
3 2 (6.25%) CCAB
4 1 (3.13%) ACCA
4 1 (3.13%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 5 (15.63%) QA
3 4 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (12.50%) GDPR
3 4 (12.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Firmware
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) Red Hat
3 5 (15.63%) SAP
4 3 (9.38%) Informatica
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco
5 2 (6.25%) Infor
5 2 (6.25%) Meraki
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce