Operational Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Operational Acceptance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.66% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £468 - £538
% change year-on-year - - -4.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 725 315 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.77% 92.38% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 181 260
10th Percentile £316 £213 £375
25th Percentile £402 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £545
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -5.50% +3.81%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £635
90th Percentile £641 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -3.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.07 £19.25
25th Percentile - £12.55 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £29.38
90th Percentile - £20.90 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Operational Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in South Yorkshire

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Sheffield - 5 £468 - 5
Operational Acceptance Testing
Yorkshire

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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