Operational Acceptance Testing Job Trends in West Wales

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales 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 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Wales median annual salary - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Wales

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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 429 35 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 71.03% 76.09% 73.18%
Number of salaries quoted 266 25 107
10th Percentile £30,000 £21,250 £27,200
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £37,733 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.88% -5.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £64,938 £55,607 £55,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £59,857 £69,250
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% +7.78% -1.55%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

Operational Acceptance Testing job vacancy trend in West Wales

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Locations in West Wales

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 West Wales region over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. 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
Swansea - 1 - -
Operational Acceptance Testing
Wales

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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