Operational Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Operational Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 121 121
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 +30
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.045% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £333 £348
25th Percentile £575 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% -14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £586 £669
90th Percentile - £676 £733
Central London median daily rate £600 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +41.18% -19.05% -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,994 1,635 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.18% 94.13% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,372 1,085 1,206
10th Percentile £368 £323 £371
25th Percentile £456 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 18
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.40
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -14.05% +19.09%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £107.13
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Operational Acceptance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Operational Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Operational Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Operational Acceptance Testing

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) eggPlant
1 1 (100.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (100.00%) Rational Functional Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SilkTest
1 1 (100.00%) SOAtest
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XBRL
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Korn
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SAP