Operational Acceptance Testing Jobs

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Operational Acceptance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Operational Acceptance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 708 896 946
Rank change year-on-year +188 +50 +213
Permanent jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 3 14 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.014% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.006% 0.016% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile - - £47,700
25th Percentile - £21,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% -8.78%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £87,500
90th Percentile - £75,000 £89,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £70,000 -
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK

Operational Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing.

Salary trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK

Operational Acceptance Testing
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +192 3 £55,000 -21.43% 10
England +148 3 £55,000 -15.38% 11
North of England +42 2 £55,000 +71.74% 1
North East - 2 £55,000 -
Work from Home +114 1 - - 6
West Midlands +64 1 - - 2
Midlands +58 1 - - 2

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) NUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Personalization
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft