Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in Buckinghamshire

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
South East median daily rate £475 £700 £481
% change year-on-year -32.14% +45.45% -3.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 252 361 811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 93.68% 81.12% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 246 641
10th Percentile £210 £238 £310
25th Percentile £350 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £588
90th Percentile £641 £648 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 7
10th Percentile - £15.85 £13.17
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.00 £13.37
Median hourly rate £15.25 £25.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% +52.44% +33.23%
75th Percentile £24.50 £29.69 £17.58
90th Percentile £54.63 £48.75 £20.75
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.77% -4.44% +122.22%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Buckinghamshire

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Milton Keynes - 1 £350 - 4
Operational Acceptance Testing
South East

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

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Biometrics
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Traceability Matrix
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Compaq
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Terracotta
1 1 (100.00%) webMethods