Acceptance Criteria Contracts in England

Acceptance Criteria
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 228 215
Rank change year-on-year -15 -13 +53
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 352 612 957
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.95% 1.21% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.34% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 420 599
10th Percentile £363 £400 £386
25th Percentile £418 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +8.91% +6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 11
10th Percentile £27.23 £50.50 £37.50
25th Percentile £31.71 £55.19 -
Median hourly rate £32.36 £58.75 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.93% +39.88% +44.83%
75th Percentile £57.00 £65.50 £58.02
90th Percentile £65.50 £73.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £58.75 £53.00
% change year-on-year -44.93% +10.85% +82.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in England.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +18 208 £533 -6.49% 54
South East -13 46 £488 -7.14% 29
North of England -1 35 £456 -12.64% 16
South West -2 32 £550 -2.65% 10
Yorkshire +25 26 £438 -22.22% 6
East of England +11 12 £375 -25.00% 11
Midlands -14 8 £463 -9.76% 12
North West -20 8 £500 +1.01% 10
West Midlands -3 5 £450 -20.00% 9
East Midlands +14 3 £500 +35.14% 3
North East +16 1 £477 +0.42%
Acceptance Criteria
UK

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 23 (6.53%) Confluence
2 6 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.85%) CMS
4 3 (0.85%) Drupal
5 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.28%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.42%) Adobe XD
1 5 (1.42%) InVision
1 5 (1.42%) Sketch
1 5 (1.42%) Zeplin
2 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (3.41%) Aligne
2 11 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (2.84%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.99%) SAP PM
5 4 (1.14%) Shopify
5 4 (1.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.85%) SAP Hybris
7 2 (0.57%) VisionPLUS
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.28%) Softmar
8 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 51 (14.49%) Azure
2 35 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 18 (5.11%) AWS
5 16 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (3.41%) Power Automate
7 7 (1.99%) Figma
8 6 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.70%) SaaS
9 5 (1.42%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.14%) BigCommerce
10 4 (1.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 3 (0.85%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (0.85%) GCP
11 3 (0.85%) Miro
11 3 (0.85%) PaaS
12 2 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.57%) dbt
12 2 (0.57%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.42%) SSH
2 3 (0.85%) DNS
2 3 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.57%) DHCP
3 2 (0.57%) Firewall
3 2 (0.57%) GSM
3 2 (0.57%) HTTP
4 1 (0.28%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.28%) 4G
4 1 (0.28%) 5G
4 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.28%) LAN
4 1 (0.28%) LTE
4 1 (0.28%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.28%) SMS
4 1 (0.28%) SSL
4 1 (0.28%) TETRA
4 1 (0.28%) UMTS
4 1 (0.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.83%) Power BI
2 12 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.27%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.70%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (1.42%) GIS
6 4 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (1.14%) MySQL
6 4 (1.14%) Redis
6 4 (1.14%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.57%) Big Data
7 2 (0.57%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.57%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.28%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.28%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.28%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (10.51%) JIRA
2 15 (4.26%) Selenium
3 13 (3.69%) Postman
4 11 (3.13%) JMeter
5 10 (2.84%) SoapUI
6 7 (1.99%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.70%) JUnit
8 5 (1.42%) Appium
8 5 (1.42%) Axure RP
8 5 (1.42%) Gatling
8 5 (1.42%) Git
8 5 (1.42%) LoadRunner
8 5 (1.42%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.42%) WebDriver
9 4 (1.14%) Mockito
9 4 (1.14%) ScalaTest
10 3 (0.85%) Rational Performance Tester
10 3 (0.85%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.57%) UI Automator
General
1 123 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.32%) Finance
3 59 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (6.53%) Presentation Skills
4 23 (6.53%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.41%) Retail
6 11 (3.13%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.84%) Banking
8 9 (2.56%) Back Office
8 9 (2.56%) Games
8 9 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.99%) Marketing
10 6 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.70%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.42%) Front Office
11 5 (1.42%) German Language
11 5 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Dutch Language
12 3 (0.85%) Law
12 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 132 (37.50%) Analyst
2 101 (28.69%) Business Analyst
3 57 (16.19%) Senior
4 28 (7.95%) Product Owner
4 28 (7.95%) Senior Analyst
5 25 (7.10%) Developer
6 22 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 22 (6.25%) Service Manager
7 21 (5.97%) Technical Analyst
8 19 (5.40%) Consultant
8 19 (5.40%) Service Transition Manager
8 19 (5.40%) Transition Manager
9 18 (5.11%) Technical Business Analyst
9 18 (5.11%) Tester
10 17 (4.83%) Senior Business Analyst
11 15 (4.26%) Lead
12 11 (3.13%) Test Leader
13 10 (2.84%) Data Analyst
14 9 (2.56%) Functional Consultant
14 9 (2.56%) Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.55%) SOAP
2 13 (3.69%) XML
3 11 (3.13%) JSON
3 11 (3.13%) REST
4 10 (2.84%) Web Services
5 9 (2.56%) Hibernate
5 9 (2.56%) JPA
5 9 (2.56%) Spring
6 7 (1.99%) RESTful
7 6 (1.70%) ADO
8 5 (1.42%) .NET
8 5 (1.42%) Akka
8 5 (1.42%) HTML
8 5 (1.42%) J2EE
9 4 (1.14%) Play Framework
9 4 (1.14%) spray
9 4 (1.14%) Spring MVC
9 4 (1.14%) Swagger
9 4 (1.14%) VML
10 3 (0.85%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 68 (19.32%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 18 (5.11%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (2.56%) Solar Panel
5 7 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.70%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.42%) Derivative
7 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.14%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.85%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.57%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.57%) Freedom of Information Act
10 2 (0.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.11%) Linux
2 9 (2.56%) Unix
2 9 (2.56%) Windows
3 5 (1.42%) Android
4 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (57.95%) Agile
2 183 (51.99%) User Stories
3 87 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
4 83 (23.58%) Scrum
5 80 (22.73%) Business Analysis
6 55 (15.63%) DevOps
7 48 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 41 (11.65%) Test Automation
9 40 (11.36%) Project Management
10 37 (10.51%) Product Backlog
11 35 (9.94%) Epics
11 35 (9.94%) Workshop Facilitation
12 33 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
12 33 (9.38%) Translating Business Requirements
13 32 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
14 31 (8.81%) Service Design
15 30 (8.52%) Business Case
15 30 (8.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (8.24%) Backlog Management
16 29 (8.24%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.38%) SQL
2 25 (7.10%) Java
3 14 (3.98%) Python
4 9 (2.56%) C#
5 8 (2.27%) C
5 8 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.70%) C++
6 6 (1.70%) Scala
6 6 (1.70%) VB
7 5 (1.42%) Perl
7 5 (1.42%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.14%) Kotlin
8 4 (1.14%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.14%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.85%) R
10 2 (0.57%) Go
10 2 (0.57%) Swift
11 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 37 (10.51%) SC Cleared
3 34 (9.66%) Degree
4 9 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 6 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.14%) CBAP
6 4 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.14%) ISTQB
7 3 (0.85%) CSPO
7 3 (0.85%) ISEB
7 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.85%) PMP
8 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.57%) MBA
9 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.07%) QA
2 20 (5.68%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.98%) WCAG
4 6 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.42%) PMO
6 3 (0.85%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.57%) COBIT
7 2 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.28%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 8 (2.27%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.70%) Grafana
2 6 (1.70%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.28%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 30 (8.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (6.53%) SAP
3 15 (4.26%) Adobe
4 8 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.70%) IBM
6 4 (1.14%) Google
6 4 (1.14%) HP
6 4 (1.14%) SimCorp
6 4 (1.14%) Sitecore
7 3 (0.85%) Dell
7 3 (0.85%) ESRI
7 3 (0.85%) Intel
8 2 (0.57%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.57%) Civica
8 2 (0.57%) Murex
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle
9 1 (0.28%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco
9 1 (0.28%) F5