Operational Acceptance Testing Contract Job Trends in Telford

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford 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 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 1.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
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 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £473 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 550 123 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 87.44% 96.85% 65.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 87 57
10th Percentile £357 £313 £299
25th Percentile £412 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £463 £365
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% +26.71% -32.41%
75th Percentile £515 £537 £503
90th Percentile £580 £544 £522
Shropshire median daily rate £465 £460 £359
% change year-on-year +0.98% +28.13% -33.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 0 7
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 - -
90th Percentile £60.37 - £11.85
Shropshire median hourly rate £52.50 - £10.42
% change year-on-year - - -81.05%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Operational Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Telford

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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