Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in London

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 443 517
Rank change year-on-year +104 +74 -73
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 55 52 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 31 58
10th Percentile £307 £355 £400
25th Percentile £472 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +18.92% -11.90%
75th Percentile £630 £619 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £735
England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.92 - -
Median hourly rate £13.55 - -
75th Percentile £35.14 - -
90th Percentile £72.85 - -
England median hourly rate £13.55 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
South London +21 10 £620 +4.86% 1
Central London +38 9 £501 -22.92%
Operational Acceptance Testing
England

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 20 (36.36%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) IIS
2 1 (1.82%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 24 (43.64%) AWS
2 13 (23.64%) Slack
3 3 (5.45%) Azure
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon Glacier
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.64%) Cohesity
4 2 (3.64%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.82%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) Firewall
2 2 (3.64%) BGP
2 2 (3.64%) iSCSI
2 2 (3.64%) WAN
3 1 (1.82%) DNS
3 1 (1.82%) DVB
3 1 (1.82%) Internet
3 1 (1.82%) LAN
3 1 (1.82%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) Sybase ASE
2 5 (9.09%) DB2
3 4 (7.27%) RDBMS
3 4 (7.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (38.18%) JIRA
2 14 (25.45%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.73%) JMeter
4 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.64%) JUnit
4 2 (3.64%) Selenium
5 1 (1.82%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Law
5 1 (1.82%) Legal
5 1 (1.82%) Police
5 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Release Manager
2 8 (14.55%) Analyst
3 6 (10.91%) Test Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) DBA
4 5 (9.09%) Performance Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Performance Test Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Sybase DBA
5 4 (7.27%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.27%) Lead
5 4 (7.27%) Test Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Administrator
6 3 (5.45%) Business IT Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) IT Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) IT Business Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) OAT Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) OAT Test Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Senior
6 3 (5.45%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Tester
7 2 (3.64%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) LDAP
2 2 (3.64%) SAML
3 1 (1.82%) ADO
3 1 (1.82%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (10.91%) Replication
2 3 (5.45%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.45%) NHS
2 3 (5.45%) PACS
3 2 (3.64%) PKI
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) MPEG
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) STB
4 1 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Linux
2 7 (12.73%) Unix
3 5 (9.09%) Windows
4 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.82%) AIX
5 1 (1.82%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (34.55%) Performance Testing
3 17 (30.91%) User Acceptance Testing
4 14 (25.45%) Configuration Management
4 14 (25.45%) SDLC
5 13 (23.64%) Change Management
5 13 (23.64%) Release Management
6 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 8 (14.55%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (12.73%) Integration Testing
9 6 (10.91%) Incident Management
9 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.91%) Task Automation
10 5 (9.09%) Software Testing
11 4 (7.27%) Business Analysis
11 4 (7.27%) Change Data Capture
11 4 (7.27%) End-to-End Testing
11 4 (7.27%) ITIL
11 4 (7.27%) Test Strategy
12 3 (5.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.64%) Python
2 7 (12.73%) Java
2 7 (12.73%) Shell Script
2 7 (12.73%) SQL
3 6 (10.91%) Perl
3 6 (10.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (32.73%) SC Cleared
1 18 (32.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) ISEB
2 4 (7.27%) ISTQB
3 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) HL7
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (7.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) NFS
2 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (23.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.73%) Grafana
2 7 (12.73%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.64%) Ansible
3 2 (3.64%) vRealize
4 1 (1.82%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (12.73%) SAP
2 6 (10.91%) Oracle
2 6 (10.91%) Sybase
3 5 (9.09%) IBM
4 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.27%) Sun
4 4 (7.27%) Veritas
5 2 (3.64%) Aruba
5 2 (3.64%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (3.64%) Proofpoint
5 2 (3.64%) VMware
6 1 (1.82%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.82%) Databricks
6 1 (1.82%) F5
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.82%) Workday