User Acceptance Testing Jobs

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 375 296
Rank change year-on-year -29 -79 +49
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 336 729 1,173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.71% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.85% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 209 569 746
10th Percentile £37,440 £33,730 £37,063
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +0.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,641 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.08% - +16.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 May 2025.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in the UK

User Acceptance Testing
Top 16 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 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
England -67 285 £60,000 +8.11% 1,780
UK excluding London -16 199 £54,641 +4.08% 1,662
Work from Home -22 127 £57,500 +4.55% 1,010
London +36 108 £72,500 +15.43% 367
North of England -31 55 £57,560 +9.64% 354
Midlands -23 47 £47,500 -9.52% 300
North West -32 46 £57,560 +11.04% 188
West Midlands +22 31 £47,500 -17.39% 166
South East +28 28 £57,500 +2.68% 484
East of England +11 23 £53,000 +17.78% 239
Scotland +112 21 £82,500 +50.68% 81
South West +92 21 £54,282 -8.54% 182
East Midlands -5 16 £70,000 +55.56% 113
Yorkshire +23 9 £45,000 -25.00% 132
Wales +39 3 £48,000 -12.73% 46
Northern Ireland +43 2 - - 40

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 16 (4.76%) Confluence
2 15 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.89%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) Moodle
5 1 (0.30%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.30%) Totara
5 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (9.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (6.85%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (2.98%) MS Visio
5 9 (2.68%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.30%) Sketch
8 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (3.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (2.68%) NetSuite
4 8 (2.38%) Dynamics AX
5 7 (2.08%) Aladdin
6 6 (1.79%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (1.19%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (1.19%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (1.19%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.60%) Magento
9 2 (0.60%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.60%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.60%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.60%) SAP PP
10 1 (0.30%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 58 (17.26%) Azure
2 44 (13.10%) Dynamics 365
3 40 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (7.74%) Power Platform
5 18 (5.36%) SaaS
6 13 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (2.68%) AWS
8 7 (2.08%) Power Automate
8 7 (2.08%) PowerApps
9 6 (1.79%) Figma
10 5 (1.49%) Miro
10 5 (1.49%) PaaS
10 5 (1.49%) Slack
11 4 (1.19%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.19%) OCI
11 4 (1.19%) Snowflake
11 4 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
12 3 (0.89%) Amazon S3
12 3 (0.89%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.89%) Firewall
1 3 (0.89%) Internet
1 3 (0.89%) WAN
2 2 (0.60%) LAN
2 2 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.30%) SAN
3 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.30%) SSH
3 1 (0.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.65%) Power BI
3 9 (2.68%) Electronic Patient Records
3 9 (2.68%) Tableau
4 8 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.79%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.19%) MySQL
7 4 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.60%) Big Data
9 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.60%) Parquet
9 2 (0.60%) Tableau Desktop
10 1 (0.30%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.30%) KDB
10 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (15.18%) JIRA
2 18 (5.36%) Selenium
3 7 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.49%) Cypress.io
4 5 (1.49%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.19%) Balsamiq
5 4 (1.19%) Git
5 4 (1.19%) JMeter
5 4 (1.19%) JUnit
5 4 (1.19%) Postman
6 3 (0.89%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.89%) Maven
6 3 (0.89%) MSTest
6 3 (0.89%) NUnit
6 3 (0.89%) SpecFlow
6 3 (0.89%) TestRail
7 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 147 (43.75%) Finance
2 129 (38.39%) Social Skills
3 63 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.52%) Law
5 29 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (7.14%) Banking
8 21 (6.25%) Legal
8 21 (6.25%) Retail
9 19 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (5.06%) Marketing
11 15 (4.46%) Front Office
12 13 (3.87%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (2.98%) Financial Institution
13 10 (2.98%) Public Sector
14 9 (2.68%) Back Office
14 9 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (2.08%) Health Technology
15 7 (2.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 133 (39.58%) Analyst
2 54 (16.07%) Business Analyst
3 38 (11.31%) Senior
4 29 (8.63%) Lead
5 25 (7.44%) Consultant
6 24 (7.14%) Test Manager
7 20 (5.95%) Project Manager
8 19 (5.65%) Financial Analyst
8 19 (5.65%) Test Analyst
9 17 (5.06%) Product Analyst
10 16 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (4.17%) Functional Consultant
12 13 (3.87%) Systems Analyst
13 12 (3.57%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
13 12 (3.57%) QA Engineer
14 11 (3.27%) Developer
14 11 (3.27%) Test Leader
15 10 (2.98%) Senior QA Engineer
15 10 (2.98%) Support Analyst
16 9 (2.68%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.17%) .NET
2 10 (2.98%) HTML
3 8 (2.38%) AngularJS
3 8 (2.38%) CSS
3 8 (2.38%) JSON
3 8 (2.38%) REST
4 7 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (2.08%) RESTful
5 5 (1.49%) Web Services
5 5 (1.49%) XML
6 4 (1.19%) ADO
6 4 (1.19%) Playwright
6 4 (1.19%) React
6 4 (1.19%) RxJS
6 4 (1.19%) SOAP
6 4 (1.19%) Spring
7 3 (0.89%) Electron
7 3 (0.89%) FHIR
7 3 (0.89%) NgRx
7 3 (0.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.46%) Derivative
4 13 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.98%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.38%) Market Risk
7 7 (2.08%) FMCG
7 7 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.08%) Hedge funds
7 7 (2.08%) NHS
7 7 (2.08%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.79%) Equities
9 4 (1.19%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.19%) PMI
9 4 (1.19%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.89%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.76%) Windows
2 8 (2.38%) Linux
3 4 (1.19%) Unix
4 2 (0.60%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (37.20%) Agile
2 78 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
3 71 (21.13%) DevOps
4 58 (17.26%) Business Analysis
5 54 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (15.48%) Test Automation
7 48 (14.29%) Process Improvement
7 48 (14.29%) Test Scripting
8 47 (13.99%) Project Management
9 43 (12.80%) Migration
10 42 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (12.20%) ERP
12 40 (11.90%) Requirements Gathering
13 39 (11.61%) User Stories
14 38 (11.31%) Project Delivery
15 35 (10.42%) SDLC
16 33 (9.82%) Scrum
17 31 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
17 31 (9.23%) Change Management
17 31 (9.23%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (18.45%) SQL
2 21 (6.25%) Python
3 18 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.17%) C#
5 9 (2.68%) Java
6 7 (2.08%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.79%) X++
8 5 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.30%) Bash
11 1 (0.30%) C++
11 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.30%) R
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) VB
11 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.30%) VB6
Qualifications
1 59 (17.56%) Degree
2 26 (7.74%) ISTQB
3 14 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 12 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.98%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.38%) CBAP
8 7 (2.08%) PMI Certification
8 7 (2.08%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.49%) ISEB
9 5 (1.49%) MCP
10 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.19%) PMP
11 3 (0.89%) ACCA
11 3 (0.89%) CISSP
11 3 (0.89%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.89%) GISP
12 2 (0.60%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (21.43%) QA
2 13 (3.87%) Data Quality
3 12 (3.57%) PMO
4 11 (3.27%) GDPR
5 8 (2.38%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.79%) SLA
7 5 (1.49%) GRC
8 4 (1.19%) MiFID
9 3 (0.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.89%) EMIR
9 3 (0.89%) Good Clinical Practice
9 3 (0.89%) HL7
9 3 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.60%) SEPA
11 1 (0.30%) COBIT
11 1 (0.30%) PSD2
11 1 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.89%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.60%) Terraform
3 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 75 (22.32%) Microsoft
2 32 (9.52%) SAP
3 28 (8.33%) Oracle
4 14 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.08%) BISAM
5 7 (2.08%) Google
6 6 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.49%) Infor
8 3 (0.89%) Intel
8 3 (0.89%) VMware
9 2 (0.60%) Adobe
9 2 (0.60%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.60%) Charles River
9 2 (0.60%) Cisco
9 2 (0.60%) NEC
9 2 (0.60%) Pega
9 2 (0.60%) Splunk
9 2 (0.60%) Sun
10 1 (0.30%) WatchGuard