Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Scotland

Acceptance Criteria
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 145 142
Rank change year-on-year +34 -3 -10
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 18 22 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 0.78% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.84% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 34
10th Percentile £410 £377 £354
25th Percentile £416 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £448
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +17.32% +6.55%
75th Percentile £519 £556 £488
90th Percentile £579 £588 £508
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 2,625 3,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.74% 92.49% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 1,886 2,317
10th Percentile £225 £260 £244
25th Percentile £400 £406 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £559 £550
90th Percentile £672 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.79 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Edinburgh +43 10 £435 -0.57% 2
Glasgow +5 4 £500 -9.09% 3
Lanarkshire - 1 £425 -
Perthshire - 1 £500 -
Acceptance Criteria
UK

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (11.11%) Banking
7 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (5.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Analyst
2 10 (55.56%) Business Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Business IT Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) IT Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) IT Business Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Security Manager
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Equities
2 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Business Analysis
3 7 (38.89%) Use Case
3 7 (38.89%) User Stories
4 6 (33.33%) Prototyping
5 5 (27.78%) Business Process Modelling
5 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
5 5 (27.78%) Project Management
5 5 (27.78%) SDLC
5 5 (27.78%) Wireframes
5 5 (27.78%) Workshop Facilitation
6 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 4 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
6 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (22.22%) Storyboarding
6 4 (22.22%) UML
7 3 (16.67%) DevOps
7 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.11%) ISEB
3 2 (11.11%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (5.56%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.11%) PMO
3 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) NCSC
3 1 (5.56%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Google