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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 152 153
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 +15
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 19 15 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.39% 0.47% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.52% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 36
10th Percentile £50,500 £33,150 £31,075
25th Percentile £52,500 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £44,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +24.29% -19.55%
75th Percentile £64,450 £59,375 £55,000
90th Percentile £64,560 £69,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.20% +6.52% +4.55%

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 3,559 2,881 3,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 73.07% 90.63% 84.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,079 1,235 3,061
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%

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 February 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 February 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 +15 9 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Hertfordshire -11 5 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Essex -6 4 - - 1
Suffolk 0 1 £45,000 - 1
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 (36.84%) Apache
1 7 (36.84%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (36.84%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (5.26%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
1 7 (36.84%) OpenShift
2 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
3 3 (15.79%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.26%) OCI
4 1 (5.26%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) Apache Hive
1 7 (36.84%) Impala
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle Database
1 7 (36.84%) Parquet
1 7 (36.84%) Spark SQL
1 7 (36.84%) Tableau
2 4 (21.05%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Cognos Connection
3 1 (5.26%) Cognos Event Studio
3 1 (5.26%) Cognos Framework Manager
3 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) OLAP
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
1 7 (36.84%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
General
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Banking
2 7 (36.84%) Investment Banking
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Legal
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) Banking Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) Business Analyst
2 7 (36.84%) Transformation Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Configuration Specialist
5 2 (10.53%) Product Owner
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Product Owner
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Product Owner
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Cognos Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Report Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Support Specialist
6 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) PySpark
2 3 (15.79%) Pandas
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (5.26%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) PropTech
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Analytics
2 9 (47.37%) Data Analysis
3 8 (42.11%) Data Governance
3 8 (42.11%) Data Transformation
3 8 (42.11%) ETL
4 7 (36.84%) AI
4 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 7 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (36.84%) Requirements Gathering
4 7 (36.84%) Scrum
4 7 (36.84%) User Stories
5 6 (31.58%) Backlog Management
5 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (31.58%) Validation
6 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
7 4 (21.05%) Decision Table
7 4 (21.05%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) Data Quality
2 6 (31.58%) QA
3 4 (21.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (21.05%) GDPR
3 4 (21.05%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Firmware
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle
2 7 (36.84%) Red Hat
3 3 (15.79%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Cognos
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft