Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in England

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 547 629
Rank change year-on-year +70 +82 -25
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 74 90 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.19% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 60 97
10th Percentile £306 £363 £378
25th Percentile £469 £447 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +13.26% +6.50%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £575
90th Percentile £750 £738 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £12.92 - -
75th Percentile £13.55 - -
90th Percentile £13.93 - -
UK median hourly rate £12.92 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in England

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in England

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in England

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in England

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +104 54 £544 -1.14% 2
Midlands +22 7 £528 +5.50% 2
South East +9 5 £700 +51.35%
East Midlands - 5 £345 - 2
East of England - 3 £313 -
West Midlands +11 2 £700 +40.00%
South West -1 1 £700 -
Operational Acceptance Testing
UK

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 24 (32.43%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) IIS
2 2 (2.70%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 2 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.14%) AWS
2 13 (17.57%) Slack
3 12 (16.22%) Azure
4 5 (6.76%) OCI
5 2 (2.70%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.35%) SaaS
6 1 (1.35%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.35%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) LAN
1 6 (8.11%) WAN
2 1 (1.35%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) DB2
1 7 (9.46%) Sybase ASE
2 5 (6.76%) RDBMS
2 5 (6.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (35.14%) JIRA
2 15 (20.27%) Jenkins
3 11 (14.86%) JMeter
4 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.70%) JUnit
4 2 (2.70%) Selenium
4 2 (2.70%) Vagrant
General
1 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.22%) Finance
3 6 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Military
5 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Law
7 1 (1.35%) Legal
7 1 (1.35%) Police
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (20.27%) Analyst
2 14 (18.92%) Release Manager
3 9 (12.16%) Test Analyst
3 9 (12.16%) Test Manager
4 8 (10.81%) Architect
5 6 (8.11%) Azure Architect
5 6 (8.11%) Business Analyst
5 6 (8.11%) DBA
5 6 (8.11%) Sybase DBA
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Architect
5 6 (8.11%) Test Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (6.76%) Lead
6 5 (6.76%) OAT Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) OAT Test Analyst
6 5 (6.76%) Performance Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Performance Test Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Business IT Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) IT Analyst
7 4 (5.41%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) LDAP
2 6 (8.11%) Middleware
3 1 (1.35%) ADO
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Linux Command Line
1 7 (9.46%) Replication
2 6 (8.11%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.05%) NHS
4 3 (4.05%) PACS
5 2 (2.70%) Life Science
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) FMCG
6 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.35%) MPEG
6 1 (1.35%) STB
6 1 (1.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.27%) Linux
2 9 (12.16%) Unix
3 8 (10.81%) Windows
4 2 (2.70%) AIX
4 2 (2.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.43%) Performance Testing
2 22 (29.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 22 (29.73%) User Acceptance Testing
3 15 (20.27%) Configuration Management
3 15 (20.27%) SDLC
4 13 (17.57%) Change Management
4 13 (17.57%) Release Management
4 13 (17.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (14.86%) Integration Testing
5 11 (14.86%) Test Automation
6 10 (13.51%) Analytics
6 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (10.81%) Agile
7 8 (10.81%) Defect Management
7 8 (10.81%) Test Management
8 7 (9.46%) Incident Management
8 7 (9.46%) System Integration Testing
8 7 (9.46%) Task Automation
8 7 (9.46%) Translating Business Requirements
8 7 (9.46%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.32%) Python
2 10 (13.51%) SQL
3 7 (9.46%) Java
3 7 (9.46%) Perl
3 7 (9.46%) Shell Script
3 7 (9.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) SC Cleared
1 20 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.76%) ISEB
3 4 (5.41%) Degree
4 3 (4.05%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (21.62%) QA
2 4 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.05%) HL7
4 2 (2.70%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 13 (17.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.46%) Grafana
2 7 (9.46%) Prometheus
3 6 (8.11%) Ansible
4 2 (2.70%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) Oracle
2 10 (13.51%) SAP
3 7 (9.46%) IBM
3 7 (9.46%) Sybase
4 6 (8.11%) Databricks
5 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.76%) Sun
5 5 (6.76%) Veritas
6 2 (2.70%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.70%) F5
6 2 (2.70%) Proofpoint
7 1 (1.35%) Foundry
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.35%) Palantir
7 1 (1.35%) Workday