Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Operational Acceptance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Operational Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 392 454
Rank change year-on-year +18 +62 -41
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 25 46 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 39
10th Percentile £311 £437 £353
25th Percentile £358 £461 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £750 £675 £518
90th Percentile - £738 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +8.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Operational Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +39 9 £438 -7.89% 1
Midlands +21 7 £528 +5.50% 2
South East +9 5 £700 +51.35%
East Midlands - 5 £345 - 2
East of England - 3 £313 -
West Midlands +13 2 £700 +40.00%
South West +2 1 £700 -
Operational Acceptance Testing
UK

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) OCI
4 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) LAN
1 7 (28.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (8.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JMeter
2 4 (16.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.00%) Selenium
3 2 (8.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.00%) Gatling
4 1 (4.00%) Postman
4 1 (4.00%) TestComplete
4 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.00%) Military
4 3 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Azure Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Technical Architect
2 7 (28.00%) Test Analyst
3 6 (24.00%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (16.00%) Test Manager
5 3 (12.00%) OAT Manager
6 2 (8.00%) Lead
6 2 (8.00%) OAT Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) OAT Test Analyst
6 2 (8.00%) Project Officer
6 2 (8.00%) Project Support Officer
6 2 (8.00%) Support Officer
7 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Test Leader
7 1 (4.00%) Tester
7 1 (4.00%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Middleware
2 4 (16.00%) LDAP
3 2 (8.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (8.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) JSON
4 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 7 (28.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Analytics
2 9 (36.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (32.00%) Agile
3 8 (32.00%) Performance Testing
4 7 (28.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 7 (28.00%) Business Strategy
4 7 (28.00%) Data Science
4 7 (28.00%) Data Strategy
4 7 (28.00%) IT Strategy
4 7 (28.00%) Machine Learning
4 7 (28.00%) Technology Strategy
4 7 (28.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 7 (28.00%) Waterfall
5 6 (24.00%) Project Management
6 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.00%) Service Management
6 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Integration Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (16.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) ISEB
2 2 (8.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Databricks
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle