Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in Reading

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 83 100
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 -39
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.084% 0.19% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.21% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £493 £556 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £563 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +32.35% -26.09%
75th Percentile £518 £569 £438
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £505 £463 £650
% change year-on-year +9.19% -28.85% +13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,078 949 1,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.36% 90.90% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 627 819
10th Percentile £213 £363 £253
25th Percentile £409 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £656 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £657
Berkshire median daily rate £501 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.57% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 23 8
10th Percentile £26.10 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £84.40 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £58.75 £21.05
% change year-on-year +4.34% +179.10% -2.09%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Reading

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Reading

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace