Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in Scotland

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 156 171
Rank change year-on-year +35 +15 -21
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 9 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.40% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.26% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile - £409 £413
25th Percentile £363 £463 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £441
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +7.71% -7.55%
75th Percentile £688 £628 £467
90th Percentile £750 £675 £479
UK median daily rate £525 £481 £464
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% +3.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Scotland

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Scotland

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in Scotland

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Glasgow +10 7 £375 -21.05% 3
Edinburgh +38 2 £700 +38.27%
Operational Acceptance Testing
UK

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) LAN
1 2 (22.22%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MariaDB
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
2 1 (11.11%) Gatling
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) TestComplete
2 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Project Officer
2 2 (22.22%) Project Support Officer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Officer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer in Test
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
1 2 (22.22%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) BDD
4 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Data Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) IT Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 2 (22.22%) SDET
4 2 (22.22%) Service Management
4 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) PMO
2 2 (22.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle