Operational Acceptance Testing Job Trends in Reading

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Operational Acceptance Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Operational Acceptance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 442 1,096 1,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 82.16% 79.94% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 275 572 725
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,525 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% - -5.79%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £74,250
90th Percentile £89,500 £82,500 £87,500
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -8.33%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in Reading

Operational Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Operational Acceptance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Operational Acceptance Testing

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ATDD
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) QA