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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 63 -
Rank change year-on-year -54 - -
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 19 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.59% 0.60% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.73% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 0
10th Percentile £32,000 - -
25th Percentile £33,805 £39,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,611 £41,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.81% - -
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 -
90th Percentile £61,000 £56,000 -
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%

All Process & 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 2,084 687 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 65.04% 82.67% 65.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 515 634
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,087 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £30,000 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £48,500 £47,014
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +3.16% +4.40%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £73,299
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing User Acceptance Testing in Wales over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Salary histogram for User Acceptance Testing in Wales

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 20 September 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
South Wales -37 13 £55,000 +34.15% 7
West Wales - 6 £32,000 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (21.05%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
1 12 (63.16%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (10.53%) Miro
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
2 5 (26.32%) Selenium
3 3 (15.79%) Bugzilla
3 3 (15.79%) Postman
4 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
4 2 (10.53%) Git
4 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Legal
5 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (10.53%) Military
6 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) Tester
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Manual Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Service Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Services Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Digital Transformation
6 1 (5.26%) Digital Transformation Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) CMDB
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
1 12 (63.16%) DevOps
2 11 (57.89%) User Stories
3 8 (42.11%) Sprint Planning
4 7 (36.84%) Acceptance Criteria
4 7 (36.84%) Business Analysis
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (36.84%) Validation
5 6 (31.58%) Backlog Management
5 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
5 6 (31.58%) Defect Tracking
5 6 (31.58%) Scrum
5 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
5 6 (31.58%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 5 (26.32%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (21.05%) Data Migration
7 4 (21.05%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (21.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
1 4 (21.05%) ISTQB
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) CBAP
2 2 (10.53%) CISM
2 2 (10.53%) CISSP
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.53%) PMP
3 1 (5.26%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (10.53%) JSP 440
3 2 (10.53%) SLA