Operational Acceptance Testing Job Trends in Swansea

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Operational Acceptance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.21% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
West Wales median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 363 34 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 75.31% 77.27% 75.89%
Number of salaries quoted 209 24 88
10th Percentile £31,700 £21,250 £28,700
25th Percentile £39,163 £30,797 £35,452
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £37,733 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.51% -16.15% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £54,223 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £47,500 £37,733 £40,000
% change year-on-year +25.88% -5.67% -11.11%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Operational Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in Swansea

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA