Operational Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Operational Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.04% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £442 - -
25th Percentile £457 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - -
75th Percentile £491 - -
90th Percentile £507 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £700
% change year-on-year -5.00% -28.57% +40.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 582 136 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 86.22% 95.10% 64.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 92 60
10th Percentile £350 £308 £200
25th Percentile £408 £399 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £460 £359
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% +28.13% -33.52%
75th Percentile £514 £537 £501
90th Percentile £578 £541 £520
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -0.62% -3.40% -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 0 8
10th Percentile £20.75 - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £10.42
Median % change year-on-year - - -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £60.37 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.18 £22.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year +55.02% -2.00% -

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Operational Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Telford - 7 £473 - 5
Operational Acceptance Testing
West Midlands

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Ingres
1 6 (85.71%) RDBMS
1 6 (85.71%) Relational Database
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Gatling
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ADO
1 5 (71.43%) COM
1 5 (71.43%) ODBC
2 2 (28.57%) ActiveX
3 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
3 1 (14.29%) JDBC
3 1 (14.29%) JSP
3 1 (14.29%) Servlets
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 7 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 7 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Data Migration
2 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
2 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 6 (85.71%) Runbook
2 6 (85.71%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 5 (71.43%) Model Validation
3 5 (71.43%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (14.29%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
1 6 (85.71%) VB
1 6 (85.71%) VB6
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Actian
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle