User Acceptance Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 377 359 298
Rank change year-on-year -18 -61 +11
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 196 496 637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.68% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.82% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 118 383 344
10th Percentile £31,200 £31,700 £32,950
25th Percentile £41,313 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,641 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.08% - +16.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +1.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,974 60,639 55,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.75% 82.65% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,037 41,817 28,998
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing User Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 May 2025. 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
North of England -26 54 £57,560 +9.64% 360
North West -34 46 £57,560 +11.39% 194
Midlands -21 44 £48,000 -8.57% 305
West Midlands +25 30 £47,500 -17.39% 170
South East +25 28 £57,500 +2.68% 491
East of England +4 23 £53,000 +17.78% 239
Scotland +101 21 £82,500 +50.68% 87
South West +82 21 £54,282 -8.54% 182
East Midlands -5 14 £70,000 +55.56% 113
Yorkshire +24 8 £38,250 -36.25% 131
Northern Ireland +43 3 - - 40
Wales +37 3 £48,000 -12.73% 47
User Acceptance Testing
UK

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.12%) Confluence
2 5 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.53%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.51%) IIS
4 1 (0.51%) Moodle
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.51%) Totara
Applications
1 15 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (4.08%) MS Visio
5 6 (3.06%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.02%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (5.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.06%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (2.04%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (1.02%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.02%) Magento
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.02%) SAP GRC
4 2 (1.02%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.51%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.51%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.24%) Azure
2 19 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (9.18%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (6.12%) SaaS
5 6 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.55%) Figma
6 5 (2.55%) Miro
7 4 (2.04%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.04%) PaaS
7 4 (2.04%) Slack
8 3 (1.53%) AWS
8 3 (1.53%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.02%) OCI
9 2 (1.02%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.51%) Internet
1 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.55%) Power BI
2 4 (2.04%) Tableau
3 3 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.53%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.02%) Big Data
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.51%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.51%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (18.88%) JIRA
2 14 (7.14%) Selenium
3 6 (3.06%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.04%) Balsamiq
5 3 (1.53%) MSTest
5 3 (1.53%) NUnit
5 3 (1.53%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.53%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.02%) Git
6 2 (1.02%) Maven
7 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.51%) JMeter
7 1 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.51%) LSMW
7 1 (0.51%) Mocha
7 1 (0.51%) Postman
7 1 (0.51%) Subversion
7 1 (0.51%) YouTrack
General
1 86 (43.88%) Finance
2 84 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 39 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.24%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (10.20%) Law
6 16 (8.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (8.16%) Legal
7 15 (7.65%) Retail
8 12 (6.12%) Banking
8 12 (6.12%) Manufacturing
9 10 (5.10%) Marketing
10 8 (4.08%) Financial Institution
10 8 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (3.06%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.55%) Billing
12 5 (2.55%) Front Office
12 5 (2.55%) General Ledger
13 4 (2.04%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 82 (41.84%) Analyst
2 27 (13.78%) Business Analyst
3 25 (12.76%) Senior
4 18 (9.18%) Lead
4 18 (9.18%) Test Analyst
5 14 (7.14%) Product Analyst
6 13 (6.63%) Test Manager
7 10 (5.10%) Financial Analyst
7 10 (5.10%) QA Engineer
7 10 (5.10%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (5.10%) Senior QA Engineer
8 9 (4.59%) Systems Analyst
9 8 (4.08%) Product Owner
9 8 (4.08%) Test Leader
10 7 (3.57%) Developer
11 6 (3.06%) Coordinator
11 6 (3.06%) Project Coordinator
12 5 (2.55%) Change Manager
12 5 (2.55%) Requirements Manager
13 4 (2.04%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.06%) AngularJS
1 6 (3.06%) REST
2 5 (2.55%) .NET
2 5 (2.55%) HTML
2 5 (2.55%) JSON
3 4 (2.04%) CSS
3 4 (2.04%) RxJS
4 3 (1.53%) ADO
4 3 (1.53%) CSS3
4 3 (1.53%) Electron
4 3 (1.53%) Highcharts JS
4 3 (1.53%) HTML5
4 3 (1.53%) LESS
4 3 (1.53%) NgRx
4 3 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.53%) Playwright
4 3 (1.53%) Reactive Extensions
4 3 (1.53%) SOAP
4 3 (1.53%) WPF
5 2 (1.02%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.08%) Market Risk
4 7 (3.57%) FMCG
5 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.55%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.04%) Equities
7 3 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.53%) Credit Derivative
7 3 (1.53%) Derivative
7 3 (1.53%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.53%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.53%) Life Science
8 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.02%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (32.65%) Agile
2 38 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (18.37%) DevOps
3 36 (18.37%) Process Improvement
4 35 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (17.86%) Test Automation
5 34 (17.35%) Project Management
6 32 (16.33%) Test Scripting
7 31 (15.82%) Business Analysis
8 25 (12.76%) Migration
8 25 (12.76%) User Stories
9 24 (12.24%) Project Delivery
9 24 (12.24%) SDLC
10 23 (11.73%) Scenario Testing
11 22 (11.22%) Software Testing
11 22 (11.22%) Test Strategy
12 21 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
13 20 (10.20%) ERP
14 19 (9.69%) Integration Testing
14 19 (9.69%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.18%) SQL
2 9 (4.59%) C#
3 8 (4.08%) JavaScript
4 6 (3.06%) Python
4 6 (3.06%) X++
5 4 (2.04%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.04%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.53%) Java
7 1 (0.51%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.51%) VB
7 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.51%) VB6
Qualifications
1 30 (15.31%) Degree
2 21 (10.71%) ISTQB
3 9 (4.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 8 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.06%) CBAP
7 4 (2.04%) ISEB
7 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.04%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.04%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.53%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.02%) CITP
9 2 (1.02%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.02%) GISP
9 2 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.51%) ACCA
10 1 (0.51%) CFA
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (22.45%) QA
2 9 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.57%) PMO
3 7 (3.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (3.06%) GDPR
5 5 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.55%) GRC
5 5 (2.55%) SLA
6 3 (1.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 3 (1.53%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.51%) COBIT
7 1 (0.51%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.51%) SEPA
7 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.73%) SAP
3 12 (6.12%) Oracle
4 11 (5.61%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.06%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.55%) Infor
7 4 (2.04%) Google
8 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco
9 1 (0.51%) Databricks
9 1 (0.51%) DocuSign
9 1 (0.51%) Informatica