User Acceptance Testing Jobs

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for User Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 204 293 292
Rank change year-on-year +89 -1 -22
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 945 1,587 1,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.74% 1.26% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 1.32% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 510 1,143 1,112
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,625 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,120 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +7.62% - +14.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

User Acceptance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,121 120,104 122,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.72% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36,956 73,203 81,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing User Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing User Acceptance Testing.

Salary trend for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 November 2023. 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
England +77 821 £60,000 +9.09% 294
UK excluding London +115 636 £51,120 +7.62% 168
Work from Home +72 443 £57,500 +8.49% 122
North of England +140 267 £55,000 +23.98% 47
London +22 255 £72,500 +20.83% 130
North West +105 136 £57,500 +27.78% 30
Midlands +96 121 £55,000 +20.88% 28
Yorkshire +132 115 £52,500 +23.53% 14
South East +77 100 £45,100 -13.27% 52
West Midlands +77 71 £51,120 +11.13% 20
Scotland +53 48 £50,000 - 5
East Midlands +46 46 £49,750 +10.56% 8
South West +47 42 £36,039 -26.60% 14
East of England +87 20 £38,750 -18.42% 17
Wales +14 20 £34,500 -37.27% 2
Northern Ireland +53 18 - - 5
North East +42 16 £31,000 -27.06% 3

User Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (1.59%) Confluence
2 10 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.63%) CMS
3 6 (0.63%) IIS
4 5 (0.53%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.32%) Drupal
6 3 (0.32%) MS Exchange
7 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.21%) Kentico
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 31 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.42%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 51 (5.40%) NetSuite
2 18 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.80%) Dynamics AX
4 14 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
6 7 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
6 7 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.74%) SAP CO
6 7 (0.74%) SAP FI
6 7 (0.74%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.63%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.32%) SAP SCM
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 2 (0.21%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.21%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.21%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.21%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 417 (44.13%) Azure
2 252 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 245 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
3 245 (25.93%) Dynamics 365
4 25 (2.65%) PowerApps
5 18 (1.90%) Power Automate
6 17 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (0.95%) AWS
7 9 (0.95%) GitHub
8 8 (0.85%) SaaS
9 7 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (0.42%) Zapier
12 3 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.32%) PaaS
13 2 (0.21%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.21%) Google Analytics
13 2 (0.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 2 (0.21%) WhatsApp
14 1 (0.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 137 (14.50%) Network Security
2 5 (0.53%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (0.53%) Wireless
3 3 (0.32%) Firewall
4 2 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.11%) Intranet
5 1 (0.11%) PABX
5 1 (0.11%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.19%) Power BI
3 30 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 14 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
6 11 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (0.85%) Data Hub
7 8 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 8 (0.85%) Data Mining
8 7 (0.74%) Oracle Database
9 6 (0.63%) Tableau
10 5 (0.53%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
10 5 (0.53%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.32%) Big Data
12 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.32%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 42 (4.44%) JIRA
2 18 (1.90%) Selenium
3 14 (1.48%) Git
4 11 (1.16%) Postman
5 9 (0.95%) TestRail
6 8 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.63%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.63%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
8 5 (0.53%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.42%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.42%) JIRA Agile
9 4 (0.42%) JMeter
9 4 (0.42%) SpecFlow
9 4 (0.42%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.32%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.32%) NUnit
10 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
General
1 438 (46.35%) Finance
2 235 (24.87%) Social Skills
3 155 (16.40%) Retail
4 99 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (3.81%) Law
6 33 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
7 32 (3.39%) Banking
8 20 (2.12%) Marketing
9 19 (2.01%) Back Office
10 18 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 16 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
12 13 (1.38%) Front Office
12 13 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.38%) Legal
13 12 (1.27%) General Ledger
14 11 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.16%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.74%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 249 (26.35%) Analyst
2 205 (21.69%) Architect
3 197 (20.85%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 162 (17.14%) Solutions Architect
5 156 (16.51%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
6 155 (16.40%) Senior
7 154 (16.30%) Business Analyst
8 150 (15.87%) Consultant
9 68 (7.20%) Azure Specialist
10 65 (6.88%) Functional Consultant
11 58 (6.14%) Senior Consultant
12 56 (5.93%) Developer
13 54 (5.71%) Senior Functional Consultant
14 49 (5.19%) NetSuite Consultant
15 35 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
16 34 (3.60%) Azure Consultant
17 33 (3.49%) Lead
18 32 (3.39%) Project Manager
19 31 (3.28%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
20 28 (2.96%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.29%) .NET
2 26 (2.75%) SOAP
3 23 (2.43%) HTML
4 22 (2.33%) ASP.NET
5 21 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 19 (2.01%) Ajax
6 19 (2.01%) ASP.NET MVC
7 17 (1.80%) RESTful
8 14 (1.48%) CSS
9 9 (0.95%) Web Services
10 8 (0.85%) ADO
11 6 (0.63%) Middleware
11 6 (0.63%) Velocity
12 5 (0.53%) REST
12 5 (0.53%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.53%) WebSphere MQ
12 5 (0.53%) XML
13 3 (0.32%) Blazor
13 3 (0.32%) FIX Protocol
13 3 (0.32%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 175 (18.52%) Management Information System
2 149 (15.77%) Self-Motivation
3 49 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 41 (4.34%) Product Ownership
5 18 (1.90%) Data Structures
6 17 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 16 (1.69%) Fixed Income
7 16 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.16%) Reference Data
10 8 (0.85%) Derivative
11 6 (0.63%) AS400
11 6 (0.63%) Equity Derivative
11 6 (0.63%) Hedge funds
11 6 (0.63%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.42%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.42%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.42%) Reinsurance
13 2 (0.21%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 164 (17.35%) Windows
2 136 (14.39%) Android
2 136 (14.39%) Apple iOS
2 136 (14.39%) Mac OS
3 20 (2.12%) Linux
4 17 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (0.74%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.53%) Unix
7 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (42.65%) Agile
2 289 (30.58%) Requirements Gathering
3 277 (29.31%) DevOps
4 235 (24.87%) Project Management
5 213 (22.54%) Actionable Insight
6 210 (22.22%) Supply Chain Management
7 207 (21.90%) Mentoring
8 197 (20.85%) Customer Engagement
9 174 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
10 159 (16.83%) Customer Service
11 154 (16.30%) ITIL
12 153 (16.19%) ITSM
13 142 (15.03%) Service Management
14 136 (14.39%) Ticket Management
15 106 (11.22%) Migration
16 98 (10.37%) User Stories
17 89 (9.42%) Business Analysis
18 87 (9.21%) Process Improvement
19 85 (8.99%) Data Migration
20 70 (7.41%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 123 (13.02%) SQL
2 47 (4.97%) JavaScript
3 37 (3.92%) C#
3 37 (3.92%) Python
4 36 (3.81%) Java
5 12 (1.27%) T-SQL
6 9 (0.95%) Bash
7 7 (0.74%) PowerShell
8 6 (0.63%) C
8 6 (0.63%) C++
9 5 (0.53%) Perl
9 5 (0.53%) VBA
10 4 (0.42%) COBOL
10 4 (0.42%) Fortran
10 4 (0.42%) PHP
10 4 (0.42%) PL/1
11 3 (0.32%) ABAP
11 3 (0.32%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.21%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 143 (15.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 97 (10.26%) Degree
3 54 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 43 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 30 (3.17%) ISTQB
6 17 (1.80%) ISEB
7 16 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.53%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 4 (0.42%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.32%) PMP
12 3 (0.32%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.21%) AAT
13 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.21%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.21%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.57%) QA
2 28 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 9 (0.95%) PMO
4 7 (0.74%) GDPR
5 6 (0.63%) SLA
6 4 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.32%) EMIR
7 3 (0.32%) MiFID
7 3 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.21%) WCAG
9 1 (0.11%) HL7
9 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.63%) vSphere
3 2 (0.21%) Docker
3 2 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 138 (14.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.95%) Ansible
2 9 (0.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.53%) Nessus
4 2 (0.21%) Control-M
4 2 (0.21%) MIIS
4 2 (0.21%) Terraform
5 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.11%) SCCM
5 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 435 (46.03%) Microsoft
2 42 (4.44%) SAP
3 34 (3.60%) Oracle
4 21 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 11 (1.16%) Calypso
6 10 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 10 (1.06%) UiPath
7 8 (0.85%) JD Edwards
8 7 (0.74%) Splunk
8 7 (0.74%) VMware
9 6 (0.63%) HP
9 6 (0.63%) HubSpot
10 5 (0.53%) arcserve
10 5 (0.53%) Charles River
10 5 (0.53%) Dynatrace
10 5 (0.53%) Sophos
10 5 (0.53%) Workday
11 4 (0.42%) Ariba
12 3 (0.32%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.32%) IBM