User Acceptance Testing Job Trends in Wales

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring User Acceptance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 - 86
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 5 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.46% - 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £50,375 - £30,650
25th Percentile £50,938 - £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £37,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.82%
75th Percentile £53,750 - £39,375
90th Percentile - - £39,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 867 822 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 79.18% 77.55% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 617 445 621
10th Percentile £25,155 £30,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,103
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -4.90%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,144 £73,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

User Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

User Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Wales

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing User Acceptance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 9 December 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
South Wales - 4 £52,500 - 5
North Wales - 1 - -
User Acceptance Testing
UK

User Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Business IT Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) IT Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Business Case
2 3 (60.00%) Business Transformation
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Information Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CBAP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google