User Acceptance Testing Job Trends in the North of England

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 200 189
Rank change year-on-year -43 -11 +74
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 30 81 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.28% 0.89% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.98% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 18 38 83
10th Percentile £35,500 £28,775 £39,550
25th Percentile £40,125 £31,925 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £66,035
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +5.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,623 8,255 7,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.03% 90.79% 88.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4,624 3,681 5,913
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,010
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,100 £82,500
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 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 North of England.

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

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

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the North of England

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire -9 15 £63,750 +96.24% 42
North West -32 11 £37,000 -43.08% 23
North East +9 4 £41,000 -30.21% 11
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North 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 2 (6.67%) CMS
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) Drupal
1 2 (6.67%) EPiServer
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (6.67%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.33%) SAP EWM
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) IaaS
2 4 (13.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (6.67%) Figma
3 2 (6.67%) npm
3 2 (6.67%) Serverless
4 1 (3.33%) dbt
4 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) DMZ
1 4 (13.33%) STUN
1 4 (13.33%) VLAN
1 4 (13.33%) VoIP
1 4 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (3.33%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.67%) Metadata
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.33%) DB2
4 1 (3.33%) GIS
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) Grunt
1 2 (6.67%) gulp
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
1 2 (6.67%) Selenium
1 2 (6.67%) webpack
2 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Finance
5 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.67%) Law
7 1 (3.33%) Advertising
7 1 (3.33%) Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
7 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Applications Support
3 4 (13.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Digital Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (10.00%) Playwright
3 2 (6.67%) CSS
3 2 (6.67%) CSS3
3 2 (6.67%) HTML
3 2 (6.67%) HTML5
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
3 2 (6.67%) OpenAPI
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (6.67%) Redux
3 2 (6.67%) RESTful
3 2 (6.67%) Sass
3 2 (6.67%) Swagger
4 1 (3.33%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Driving Licence
2 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Graphic Design
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.33%) FMCG
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Debian
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
1 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Agile
2 11 (36.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 8 (26.67%) Business Analysis
4 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 6 (20.00%) Migration
5 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (20.00%) User Stories
5 6 (20.00%) Validation
6 5 (16.67%) Change Management
6 5 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
7 4 (13.33%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (13.33%) Customer Service
7 4 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (13.33%) Model Validation
7 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.67%) IIBA
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.33%) ISEB
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (13.33%) ISO 9001
2 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (10.00%) QA
4 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.33%) GDPR
4 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (3.33%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) ESRI