User Acceptance Testing Job Trends in the North East

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East 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 78 80 70
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +13
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 4 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.39% 0.64% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.73% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £40,100 £50,000 -
25th Percentile £40,250 £50,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £58,750 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.21% - -
75th Percentile £48,500 £64,688 -
90th Percentile £52,400 £65,000 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £58,250
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.29% +5.91%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 803 827 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 78.80% 88.83% 89.51%
Number of salaries quoted 541 337 579
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,750 £29,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,897 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £61,973
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in the North East

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in the North East

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

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the North East

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear +8 3 £41,000 -21.90% 8
Durham +9 1 - -
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Business Case
2 1 (25.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) MoSCoW
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (25.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft