Operational Acceptance Testing Contracts in London

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Operational Acceptance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Acceptance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 439 528
Rank change year-on-year +93 +89 -47
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing 54 43 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.19% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 33 51
10th Percentile £385 £311 £390
25th Percentile £488 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +18.92% +4.23%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 £750 £775
England median daily rate £569 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +3.41% +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £13.05 - -
25th Percentile £13.24 - -
Median hourly rate £13.55 - -
75th Percentile £13.87 - -
90th Percentile £14.05 - -
England median hourly rate £13.55 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Operational Acceptance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Operational Acceptance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Testing in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Operational Acceptance Testing in London

Operational Acceptance Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Central London +45 12 £525 -18.29%
South London +16 10 £620 +5.53%
Operational Acceptance Testing
England

Operational Acceptance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 20 (37.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) IIS
2 1 (1.85%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.74%) AWS
2 13 (24.07%) Slack
3 3 (5.56%) Azure
4 2 (3.70%) Mimecast
4 2 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.85%) OCI
5 1 (1.85%) SaaS
5 1 (1.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DVB
1 1 (1.85%) LAN
1 1 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) Sybase ASE
2 6 (11.11%) DB2
3 5 (9.26%) RDBMS
3 5 (9.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 22 (40.74%) JIRA
2 14 (25.93%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.96%) JMeter
4 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.70%) JUnit
4 2 (3.70%) Selenium
5 1 (1.85%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Finance
3 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 14 (25.93%) Release Manager
2 10 (18.52%) Analyst
3 6 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 6 (11.11%) DBA
3 6 (11.11%) Sybase DBA
3 6 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Performance Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Performance Test Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Business IT Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) IT Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) IT Business Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Test Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Administrator
6 3 (5.56%) Lead
6 3 (5.56%) OAT Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) OAT Test Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Head of Testing
7 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
7 2 (3.70%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.11%) LDAP
2 1 (1.85%) ADO
2 1 (1.85%) Middleware
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Linux Command Line
1 7 (12.96%) Replication
2 4 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.56%) NHS
3 3 (5.56%) PACS
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) MPEG
5 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) STB
5 1 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Linux
2 8 (14.81%) Unix
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.85%) AIX
4 1 (1.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.74%) Stakeholder Management
2 19 (35.19%) Performance Testing
3 16 (29.63%) User Acceptance Testing
4 15 (27.78%) SDLC
5 14 (25.93%) Configuration Management
6 13 (24.07%) Change Management
6 13 (24.07%) Release Management
7 10 (18.52%) Test Automation
8 9 (16.67%) Integration Testing
8 9 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (12.96%) Incident Management
9 7 (12.96%) Task Automation
10 6 (11.11%) Business Analysis
10 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (9.26%) Change Data Capture
11 5 (9.26%) End-to-End Testing
11 5 (9.26%) ITIL
12 4 (7.41%) Project Delivery
12 4 (7.41%) Requirements Management
12 4 (7.41%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.93%) Python
2 8 (14.81%) SQL
3 7 (12.96%) Java
3 7 (12.96%) Perl
3 7 (12.96%) Shell Script
3 7 (12.96%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (31.48%) SC Cleared
1 17 (31.48%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) ISEB
3 4 (7.41%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.56%) Degree
5 2 (3.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.52%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.56%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 13 (24.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.96%) Grafana
2 7 (12.96%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (1.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Oracle
1 9 (16.67%) SAP
2 7 (12.96%) Sybase
3 6 (11.11%) IBM
4 5 (9.26%) ServiceNow
4 5 (9.26%) Sun
4 5 (9.26%) Veritas
5 2 (3.70%) Proofpoint
5 2 (3.70%) Workday
6 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.85%) Databricks
6 1 (1.85%) F5
6 1 (1.85%) Foundry
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.85%) Palantir