Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Bedfordshire

Acceptance Criteria
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for Acceptance Criteria skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 27 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 -13
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 1 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.41% 2.21% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 2.42% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £198 £433
25th Percentile - £231 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £381 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -19.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile - £558 £494
90th Percentile - £606 £498
East of England median daily rate £375 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% -2.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Acceptance Criteria 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 Bedfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 213 165 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 86.59% 91.16% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 115 149
10th Percentile £304 £208 £263
25th Percentile £409 £316 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £482
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.35% +13.29%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £538
90th Percentile £700 £629 £638
East of England median daily rate £458 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.68% - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 6 18
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.50 £14.68
25th Percentile £15.39 £29.31 £44.69
Median hourly rate £21.50 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.27% +15.91% +243.75%
75th Percentile £32.90 £87.50 £61.44
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +81.82% +41.94% -15.16%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Bedfordshire

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Bedfordshire

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Acceptance Criteria within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Dunstable - 1 - -
Acceptance Criteria
East of England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories