Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Operational Acceptance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Acceptance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.085% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £417
25th Percentile - - £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.85%
75th Percentile - - £519
90th Percentile - - £549
South East median daily rate £475 £413 £463
% change year-on-year +15.15% -10.81% -7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Operational Acceptance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Berkshire

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Berkshire

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Network Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) HP