Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in London

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 348 336 441
Rank change year-on-year -12 +105 +68
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 5 55 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.35% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 40 31
10th Percentile £439 £307 £355
25th Percentile £478 £472 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -1.14% +18.92%
75th Percentile £703 £630 £619
90th Percentile £731 £650 £650
England median daily rate £496 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.52% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £13.55 -
England median hourly rate - £13.55 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South London -2 1 £425 -31.45% 1
Central London -4 1 - -
Operational Acceptance Testing
England

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Architect
3 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) UAT Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) F5
1 2 (40.00%) NetScout
1 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper