Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Manchester

Acceptance Criteria
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 86 108
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 -25
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 5 27 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.34% 1.48% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.62% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 21
10th Percentile £448 £385 £350
25th Percentile £481 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +10.14%
75th Percentile £501 £588 £525
90th Percentile £503 £640 £550
North West median daily rate £481 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.70% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.00
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £55.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -26.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,260 1,669 2,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.84% 91.45% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,218 1,809
10th Percentile £325 £313 £273
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 53 58
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.67 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +93.83% +11.26%
75th Percentile £60.63 £45.05 £34.69
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -33.89% +46.94% +32.43%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Manchester

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Manchester

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (20.00%) LiveLink
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) EDRMS
General
1 2 (40.00%) Billing
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Billing Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Billing Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) ERP
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) User Stories
1 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Informatics
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting