Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 320 406 557
Rank change year-on-year +86 +151 -83
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 26 59 60
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.27% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 56 48
10th Percentile £363 £363 £361
25th Percentile £500 £443 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £627 £470 £426
Median % change year-on-year +33.40% +10.33% -
75th Percentile £750 £600 £500
90th Percentile - £675 £679
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +8.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,810 21,655 40,201
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.61% 89.64% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,641 15,361 29,229
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 502 523
10th Percentile £14.88 £18.49 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.13 £25.80 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Operational Acceptance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Operational Acceptance Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Operational Acceptance Testing.

Operational Acceptance Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Operational Acceptance Testing over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Operational Acceptance Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (26.92%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 2 (7.69%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
3 5 (19.23%) Slack
4 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) LAN
1 8 (30.77%) WAN
2 2 (7.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) DB2
2 1 (3.85%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
2 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) TestComplete
3 2 (7.69%) Vagrant
3 2 (7.69%) Zephyr
4 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.85%) JMeter
4 1 (3.85%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Architect
2 8 (30.77%) Azure Architect
2 8 (30.77%) Technical Architect
3 7 (26.92%) Cloud Architect
4 6 (23.08%) Release Manager
5 3 (11.54%) Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Test Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Developer
7 1 (3.85%) HR Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Integration Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Software Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Systems Integration Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Tester
7 1 (3.85%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) Middleware
2 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.85%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.85%) FMCG
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Linux
2 10 (38.46%) Windows
3 2 (7.69%) AIX
3 2 (7.69%) Solaris
3 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Performance Testing
2 9 (34.62%) Waterfall
3 8 (30.77%) Analytics
3 8 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
3 8 (30.77%) Business Strategy
3 8 (30.77%) Data Science
3 8 (30.77%) Data Strategy
3 8 (30.77%) IT Strategy
3 8 (30.77%) Machine Learning
3 8 (30.77%) Technology Strategy
3 8 (30.77%) Translating Business Requirements
4 7 (26.92%) Configuration Management
4 7 (26.92%) SDLC
4 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (26.92%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (23.08%) Integration Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Change Management
6 5 (19.23%) Release Management
7 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) ISEB
2 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) PMO
Systems Management
1 6 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Tivoli
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
3 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Databricks
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.69%) F5
3 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Workday