Operational Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Operational Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.71% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £391 - -
25th Percentile £420 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £514 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £468 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 676 287 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.89% 92.28% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 162 233
10th Percentile £316 £220 £388
25th Percentile £401 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £623 £675 £724
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -6.80% -4.63% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile - £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +52.54%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Operational Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Operational Acceptance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing Operational Acceptance Testing

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in Sheffield over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in Sheffield

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
1 5 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
1 5 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Lead
3 2 (40.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (40.00%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) LDAP
1 5 (100.00%) OpenID
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) API Testing
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) GitOps
1 5 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 5 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 5 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) PHP
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow