User Acceptance Testing Job Trends in Leicestershire

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 48 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -3
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 8 10 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 1.41% 2.30% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.51% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 8
10th Percentile £55,500 £28,550 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £29,000 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £31,250 £28,500
Median % change year-on-year +84.00% +9.65% -45.71%
75th Percentile £58,750 £33,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,500 £36,750 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £32,500 £39,250
% change year-on-year +46.15% -17.20% -12.78%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 399 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 81.34% 91.72% 87.45%
Number of salaries quoted 326 157 314
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,575
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £49,990
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -14.98% +5.24%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing User Acceptance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Leicestershire

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Leicester -3 6 £57,500 +91.67% 3
Kegworth - 1 - -
User Acceptance Testing
East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Finance Systems Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Financial Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) ERP Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) ERP Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) JDE Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (62.50%) ERP
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Logistics
3 4 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Systems Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (25.00%) Business Case
5 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
6 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
6 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) JD Edwards