Operational Acceptance Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Operational Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 758 748 812
Rank change year-on-year -10 +64 -140
Permanent jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 6 7 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.008% 0.012% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.012% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £37,726 - -
25th Percentile £47,459 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £57,434
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.23%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £76,250
90th Percentile £74,000 - £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,711 £61,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% -20.97% +7.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,475 57,466 67,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.95% 95.60% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41,116 29,651 41,279
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -3 3 £70,000 -
East Midlands - 2 £70,000 -
West Midlands +13 1 £75,000 -
North of England - 1 £32,025 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £32,025 -
South East - 1 - -
South West - 1 £48,423 - 1
Operational Acceptance Testing
UK

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) MSI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Line Management
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (50.00%) Test Management
1 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) API Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Ruby
1 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) Shibboleth
1 1 (16.67%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM