Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in Glasgow

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Operational Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 84 83
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 -8
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.78% 0.33% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.35% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile - - £389
25th Percentile £363 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £431
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +10.14% +18.97%
75th Percentile £416 £581 £464
90th Percentile £466 £638 £478
Scotland median daily rate £438 £475 £407
% change year-on-year -7.89% +16.71% -14.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 824 869 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.86% 94.35% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 630 712
10th Percentile £281 £325 £257
25th Percentile £400 £410 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £712 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 12
10th Percentile £13.75 - £17.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.13 £13.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +56.50% -58.97% +31.61%
75th Percentile £44.14 £35.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Glasgow

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Glasgow

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in Glasgow over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in Glasgow

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MariaDB
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
2 1 (14.29%) Gatling
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) TestComplete
2 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Project Officer
2 2 (28.57%) Project Support Officer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Officer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer in Test
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SDET
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle