User Acceptance Testing Job Trends in London

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 277 334
Rank change year-on-year +117 +57 -89
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 294 114 197
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.39% 0.94% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 0.98% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 174 73 151
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +19.83% -3.20%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -0.36%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,277 11,582 21,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.50% 95.87% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 11,678 6,948 15,996
10th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in London

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in London over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in London

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Central London -4 23 £67,500 -7.85% 51
South London +20 9 £64,000 +47.71% 2
East London -5 6 - - 2
West London - 3 - - 11
North London +3 1 - -
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 20 (6.80%) Confluence
2 16 (5.44%) Apache
2 16 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (5.44%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.72%) Appian
4 7 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.02%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 21 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (6.46%) MS Visio
3 10 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (4.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (2.38%) Elite 3E
3 6 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.02%) Loan IQ
5 3 (1.02%) NetSuite
5 3 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (1.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.02%) SAP CO
5 3 (1.02%) SAP FI
5 3 (1.02%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.68%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.34%) SAP BRIM
7 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 61 (20.75%) Azure
2 36 (12.24%) AWS
2 36 (12.24%) Power Platform
3 30 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (8.16%) Dynamics 365
5 21 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 17 (5.78%) Amazon S3
7 16 (5.44%) OpenShift
8 14 (4.76%) SaaS
9 13 (4.42%) PowerApps
10 12 (4.08%) GCP
11 8 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
11 8 (2.72%) Azure AI
11 8 (2.72%) Azure AKS
11 8 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (2.38%) Snowflake
13 6 (2.04%) Asana
13 6 (2.04%) Figma
13 6 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.36%) VPN
2 2 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) Broadband
3 1 (0.34%) FTP
3 1 (0.34%) LAN
3 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.18%) Power BI
2 18 (6.12%) Oracle Database
3 17 (5.78%) Tableau
4 16 (5.44%) Apache Hive
4 16 (5.44%) Impala
4 16 (5.44%) Parquet
4 16 (5.44%) Spark SQL
5 15 (5.10%) SQL Server
6 8 (2.72%) Pinecone
7 5 (1.70%) Metadata
7 5 (1.70%) MySQL
8 4 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.36%) Db2
8 4 (1.36%) DB2 UDB
8 4 (1.36%) Electronic Patient Records
8 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.36%) QlikView
9 3 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.02%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (18.71%) JIRA
2 19 (6.46%) Git
3 16 (5.44%) IBM UrbanCode
3 16 (5.44%) Selenium
4 10 (3.40%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.72%) MLflow
5 8 (2.72%) Postman
6 5 (1.70%) GitLab
6 5 (1.70%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.36%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (1.36%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.36%) TestRail
8 3 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.68%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.68%) JUnit
9 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.68%) TestDirector
9 2 (0.68%) TestNG
9 2 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 177 (60.20%) Finance
2 110 (37.41%) Social Skills
3 81 (27.55%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (17.01%) Banking
5 41 (13.95%) Law
6 33 (11.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (9.18%) Investment Banking
8 26 (8.84%) Legal
9 17 (5.78%) Marketing
10 15 (5.10%) Billing
11 11 (3.74%) Retail
12 10 (3.40%) Public Sector
13 6 (2.04%) Games
14 5 (1.70%) Front Office
14 5 (1.70%) General Ledger
14 5 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.36%) Advertising
15 4 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.36%) Health Technology
15 4 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (31.29%) Analyst
2 58 (19.73%) Business Analyst
3 47 (15.99%) Consultant
4 42 (14.29%) Lead
5 32 (10.88%) Senior
6 20 (6.80%) Technical Analyst
7 17 (5.78%) Transformation Analyst
8 16 (5.44%) Transformation Manager
9 15 (5.10%) Functional Consultant
9 15 (5.10%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (4.76%) Banking Analyst
11 12 (4.08%) Developer
12 11 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Tester
13 9 (3.06%) Cloud Consultant
13 9 (3.06%) QA Leader
13 9 (3.06%) Salesforce Consultant
13 9 (3.06%) Salesforce Functional Consultant
14 8 (2.72%) Systems Analyst
14 8 (2.72%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.78%) Pandas
1 17 (5.78%) REST
2 16 (5.44%) PySpark
3 12 (4.08%) RESTful
3 12 (4.08%) Web Services
4 10 (3.40%) Flask
5 9 (3.06%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (2.72%) Django
6 8 (2.72%) Faiss
6 8 (2.72%) FastAPI
6 8 (2.72%) Hugging Face
6 8 (2.72%) JWT
6 8 (2.72%) NumPy
6 8 (2.72%) OAuth
6 8 (2.72%) OpenAPI
6 8 (2.72%) pytest
6 8 (2.72%) PyTorch
6 8 (2.72%) scikit-learn
6 8 (2.72%) Swagger
6 8 (2.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.80%) Legacy Systems
2 18 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (5.78%) Onboarding
3 17 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 12 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.08%) Low-Code
6 11 (3.74%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.06%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.72%) Fixed Income
8 8 (2.72%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.38%) Derivative
10 6 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.36%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.36%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.36%) NHS
11 4 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.02%) PMI
12 3 (1.02%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.06%) Linux
2 5 (1.70%) Unix
2 5 (1.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (38.78%) Agile
2 105 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 76 (25.85%) Continuous Improvement
4 60 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (18.71%) Migration
6 52 (17.69%) Validation
7 50 (17.01%) DevOps
8 49 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 46 (15.65%) User Stories
10 45 (15.31%) AI
11 44 (14.97%) Process Improvement
11 44 (14.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 44 (14.97%) Translating Business Requirements
12 42 (14.29%) CI/CD
12 42 (14.29%) Test Automation
13 38 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
13 38 (12.93%) ERP
13 38 (12.93%) System Integration Testing
14 37 (12.59%) Workshop Facilitation
15 35 (11.90%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 78 (26.53%) SQL
2 45 (15.31%) Python
3 17 (5.78%) C#
4 13 (4.42%) Java
5 11 (3.74%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.06%) C++
7 5 (1.70%) Apex Code
7 5 (1.70%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.36%) Rust
9 2 (0.68%) ABAP
9 2 (0.68%) Go
9 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.68%) VBA
10 1 (0.34%) Bash
10 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.34%) Korn
10 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (11.90%) Degree
2 13 (4.42%) ISTQB
3 5 (1.70%) CBAP
3 5 (1.70%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (1.36%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.02%) CCA
5 3 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.02%) IIBA
5 3 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (0.68%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.34%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.34%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (18.37%) QA
2 38 (12.93%) Data Quality
3 17 (5.78%) GDPR
4 15 (5.10%) Accessibility
5 14 (4.76%) PMO
6 7 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (2.38%) HIPAA
6 7 (2.38%) IFRS
7 6 (2.04%) GAAP
7 6 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (1.70%) SLA
9 4 (1.36%) HL7
9 4 (1.36%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (1.02%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.68%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.68%) PSD2
12 1 (0.34%) FATCA
12 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (4.76%) Docker
2 4 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.74%) Terraform
3 3 (1.02%) Ansible
4 1 (0.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 46 (15.65%) Oracle
2 45 (15.31%) Microsoft
3 34 (11.56%) SAP
4 17 (5.78%) Red Hat
5 13 (4.42%) Intapp
5 13 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.08%) ServiceNow
7 10 (3.40%) FIS
8 9 (3.06%) ION Trading
9 8 (2.72%) Automation Anywhere
9 8 (2.72%) OpenAI
9 8 (2.72%) UiPath
10 6 (2.04%) iManage
11 5 (1.70%) Ariba
12 4 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
12 4 (1.36%) Databricks
12 4 (1.36%) JD Edwards
12 4 (1.36%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.36%) Workday
13 3 (1.02%) Blue Prism