Acceptance Criteria Contracts in London

Acceptance Criteria
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 200 230 218
Rank change year-on-year +30 -12 +11
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 209 313 531
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.18% 1.16% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.27% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 198 322
10th Percentile £363 £413 £400
25th Percentile £430 £471 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £566 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +4.86% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £701 £679 £699
England median daily rate £506 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.91% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
10th Percentile - £55.50 -
25th Percentile £31.71 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £32.36 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% - -
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £56.10 £76.00 -
England median hourly rate £32.36 £58.75 £42.00
% change year-on-year -44.93% +39.88% +44.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in London

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in London

Acceptance Criteria
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 Acceptance Criteria within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +20 34 £518 +8.95% 3
West London +11 10 £330 -45.00%
East London +1 7 £510 +0.74% 4
South London +10 1 £380 -27.62% 3
North London - 1 £375 -
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
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 16 (7.66%) Confluence
2 3 (1.44%) CMS
2 3 (1.44%) Drupal
3 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.48%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.48%) IIS
4 1 (0.48%) Joomla!
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Adobe XD
1 3 (1.44%) InVision
1 3 (1.44%) Sketch
1 3 (1.44%) Zeplin
2 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.26%) Aligne
2 8 (3.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.91%) Shopify
3 4 (1.91%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.48%) Endur
5 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.48%) Softmar
5 1 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 39 (18.66%) Azure
2 32 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (6.22%) AWS
4 10 (4.78%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.83%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (3.35%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.39%) Figma
7 5 (2.39%) SaaS
8 4 (1.91%) BigCommerce
9 3 (1.44%) GCP
9 3 (1.44%) Miro
9 3 (1.44%) PaaS
10 2 (0.96%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.96%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.96%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.48%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.48%) GitHub
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.39%) SSH
2 3 (1.44%) DNS
3 2 (0.96%) DHCP
3 2 (0.96%) Firewall
3 2 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.48%) GSM
4 1 (0.48%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.78%) Power BI
2 8 (3.83%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.87%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (1.91%) Redis
5 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.96%) Big Data
6 2 (0.96%) Data Mart
6 2 (0.96%) GIS
6 2 (0.96%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 22 (10.53%) JIRA
2 13 (6.22%) Postman
3 10 (4.78%) SoapUI
4 6 (2.87%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.87%) Selenium
5 5 (2.39%) Gatling
5 5 (2.39%) JUnit
5 5 (2.39%) Visual Studio
5 5 (2.39%) WebDriver
6 4 (1.91%) Git
6 4 (1.91%) Mockito
6 4 (1.91%) ScalaTest
7 3 (1.44%) Appium
7 3 (1.44%) Axure RP
7 3 (1.44%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.44%) Rational Performance Tester
7 3 (1.44%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 72 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 57 (27.27%) Finance
3 36 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
5 15 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 9 (4.31%) Back Office
6 9 (4.31%) Retail
7 8 (3.83%) Banking
8 6 (2.87%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.39%) Front Office
9 5 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.39%) Marketing
9 5 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.44%) Games
10 3 (1.44%) Local Government
10 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.48%) Advertising
11 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.48%) Legal
11 1 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (42.11%) Analyst
2 71 (33.97%) Business Analyst
3 27 (12.92%) Senior
4 20 (9.57%) Product Owner
5 18 (8.61%) Consultant
5 18 (8.61%) Technical Analyst
5 18 (8.61%) Technical Business Analyst
6 17 (8.13%) Senior Analyst
7 12 (5.74%) Project Manager
8 11 (5.26%) Developer
9 10 (4.78%) Senior Business Analyst
10 9 (4.31%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.31%) Functional Consultant
10 9 (4.31%) Service Manager
10 9 (4.31%) Tester
11 8 (3.83%) Insurance Business Analyst
11 8 (3.83%) Manual Tester
11 8 (3.83%) Service Transition Manager
11 8 (3.83%) Test Analyst
11 8 (3.83%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.22%) SOAP
2 9 (4.31%) Hibernate
2 9 (4.31%) JPA
2 9 (4.31%) Spring
2 9 (4.31%) Web Services
3 7 (3.35%) XML
4 6 (2.87%) ADO
5 5 (2.39%) J2EE
5 5 (2.39%) JSON
5 5 (2.39%) REST
5 5 (2.39%) RESTful
6 4 (1.91%) Akka
6 4 (1.91%) Play Framework
6 4 (1.91%) spray
6 4 (1.91%) Spring MVC
6 4 (1.91%) VML
7 2 (0.96%) .NET
7 2 (0.96%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.96%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (0.96%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (22.01%) Product Ownership
2 18 (8.61%) Management Information System
3 13 (6.22%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.31%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (4.31%) Solar Panel
5 5 (2.39%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.39%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.91%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.91%) Derivative
7 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.44%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.96%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.96%) Clustering
8 2 (0.96%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.96%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.22%) Linux
2 9 (4.31%) Unix
3 7 (3.35%) Windows
4 3 (1.44%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) AIX
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (62.68%) Agile
2 123 (58.85%) User Stories
3 49 (23.44%) Business Analysis
3 49 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (23.44%) Scrum
4 43 (20.57%) DevOps
5 34 (16.27%) Epics
6 31 (14.83%) Product Backlog
6 31 (14.83%) Workshop Facilitation
7 28 (13.40%) User Acceptance Testing
8 26 (12.44%) Test Automation
9 24 (11.48%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 22 (10.53%) Backlog Management
10 22 (10.53%) Business Case
10 22 (10.53%) Project Management
11 21 (10.05%) BDD
11 21 (10.05%) Translating Business Requirements
12 20 (9.57%) Microservices
12 20 (9.57%) Roadmaps
13 19 (9.09%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.61%) SQL
2 14 (6.70%) Java
3 12 (5.74%) Python
4 6 (2.87%) C#
5 5 (2.39%) Perl
5 5 (2.39%) Scala
6 3 (1.44%) C
6 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.96%) Go
7 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
7 2 (0.96%) R
8 1 (0.48%) C++
8 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (9.57%) Degree
2 18 (8.61%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.66%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.96%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.96%) MBA
6 1 (0.48%) CSPO
6 1 (0.48%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.48%) ISEB
6 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.13%) QA
2 9 (4.31%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.39%) WCAG
4 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (3.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 7 (3.35%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.39%) Grafana
2 5 (2.39%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 18 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.31%) SAP
3 7 (3.35%) Adobe
4 6 (2.87%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.39%) IBM
6 4 (1.91%) HP
6 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.91%) SimCorp
6 4 (1.91%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.44%) Dell
7 3 (1.44%) Google
7 3 (1.44%) Intel
8 2 (0.96%) Civica
8 2 (0.96%) Murex
9 1 (0.48%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco
9 1 (0.48%) Commvault
9 1 (0.48%) EMC
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle
9 1 (0.48%) Remedy