User Acceptance Testing Job Trends in Surrey

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey 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 86 94 82
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 +45
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 13 10 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.80% 0.83% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.91% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile - £56,625 £47,000
25th Percentile £48,250 £57,188 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,750 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -2.89% +5.22%
75th Percentile £68,750 £59,688 £72,500
90th Percentile - £59,875 -
South East median annual salary £42,500 £55,860 £56,000
% change year-on-year -23.92% -0.25% +6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,321 1,099 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 80.89% 91.74% 89.81%
Number of salaries quoted 752 480 676
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £43,750 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Surrey

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in Surrey

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

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Surrey

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Walton-on-Thames - 5 - -
Guildford - 4 £50,500 - 5
Epsom +25 2 - - 1
Staines - 2 £67,500 -
User Acceptance Testing
South East

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (30.77%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
4 4 (30.77%) Retail
5 2 (15.38%) Aerospace
5 2 (15.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) ERP Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) ERP Support
2 4 (30.77%) Support Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Test Leader
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Applications Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Workshop Facilitation
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) Business Analysis
4 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (38.46%) ERP
4 5 (38.46%) IT Governance
4 5 (38.46%) Logistics
4 5 (38.46%) Order to Cash
4 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
4 5 (38.46%) Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (30.77%) BPMN
5 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 4 (30.77%) Epics
5 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (30.77%) Target Operating Model
5 4 (30.77%) Use Case
5 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) SLA
2 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) HP
1 2 (15.38%) VMware