Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in Central London

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Operational Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 170 205
Rank change year-on-year +46 +35 -44
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 10 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.41% 0.24% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.26% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 3
10th Percentile £410 £565 £498
25th Percentile £425 £625 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% -3.70% +20.27%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £744
90th Percentile - £683 £763
London median daily rate £525 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -4.55% +18.92% -11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,202 3,443 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.62% 91.33% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 2,335 3,145
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £823 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Operational Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Central London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Central London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in Central London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +47 8 £501 -22.92% 1
West End of London - 1 £525 - 1
Operational Acceptance Testing
London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Mimecast
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) DB2
1 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (40.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) JMeter
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) DBA
1 3 (30.00%) Sybase DBA
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Specialist
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Software Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Change Data Capture
1 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (40.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
3 2 (20.00%) UX Design
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Management
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) IBM
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (40.00%) Sun
1 4 (40.00%) Sybase
1 4 (40.00%) Veritas
2 2 (20.00%) Proofpoint