Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Birmingham

Acceptance Criteria
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 54 76
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 -14
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 2 21 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.26% 2.32% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 2.63% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 16
10th Percentile £424 £430 £394
25th Percentile £433 £525 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -23.96% +6.67% +13.07%
75th Percentile £470 - £653
90th Percentile £473 £841 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £563 £488
% change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% +36.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 640 798 1,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.55% 88.27% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 537 880
10th Percentile £248 £263 £219
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 23
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £27.25 £15.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +81.67% -14.19% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £71.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
% change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Birmingham

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Birmingham

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA