Operational Acceptance Testing Job Trends in Staines

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
Surrey > Staines

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staines requiring Operational Acceptance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 15 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Staines 14.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.56% - -
Number of salaries quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 - -
75th Percentile £55,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median annual salary £48,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staines

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 Staines.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 103 38 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staines 97.17% 95.00% 94.87%
Number of salaries quoted 75 33 25
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £48,000 £52,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +40.45% -11.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,000 £74,000
Surrey median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% -8.70%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Staines

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

Operational Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Staines

Operational Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend in Staines

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staines citing Operational Acceptance Testing

Operational Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram in Staines

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in Staines over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in Staines

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staines 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 15 (100.00%) AWS
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 15 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) OAT Tester
1 15 (100.00%) Tester
2 5 (33.33%) Lead
2 5 (33.33%) Lead Tester
2 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (33.33%) Senior Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
1 15 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 15 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
1 15 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 15 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 15 (100.00%) Validation
2 10 (66.67%) Batch Processing
2 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 10 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (66.67%) ITIL
2 10 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 10 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 10 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Change Management
3 5 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 5 (33.33%) Release Management
3 5 (33.33%) Service Management
3 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (33.33%) Test Planning
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) QA