Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in Birmingham

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 59 69
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 1 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.18% 0.66% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.83% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £472 -
25th Percentile £613 £539 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +40.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £750 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +40.00% +10.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 498 604 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.22% 79.37% 83.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 414 518
10th Percentile £163 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £620
90th Percentile £689 £700 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 28 29
10th Percentile - £13.23 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.16 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £25.33 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +5.52% +38.33%
75th Percentile £22.08 £41.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £62.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +16.05% -24.00% +42.86%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Birmingham

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Birmingham

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Network+ Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto