Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 191 199
Rank change year-on-year -54 +8 +51
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 153 294 404
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.75% 1.25% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.40% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 219 271
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £549 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.97% +15.58% +8.57%
75th Percentile £559 £603 £548
90th Percentile £588 £650 £614
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £26.98 £43.05 -
25th Percentile £33.31 £47.63 £42.00
Median hourly rate £44.25 £55.25 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.91% +4.25% +96.44%
75th Percentile £54.81 £57.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.93 £59.05 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £58.75 £53.89
% change year-on-year -44.93% +9.02% +85.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East -11 45 £488 -7.58% 27
North of England -4 35 £485 -4.90% 18
South West -7 33 £550 -2.65% 13
Yorkshire +24 27 £485 -11.82% 6
Scotland +38 19 £463 -11.90% 10
East of England +2 13 £375 -25.00% 12
Midlands 0 9 £463 -11.90% 16
North West -20 7 £481 -1.74% 10
West Midlands -10 5 £450 -21.74% 12
East Midlands +21 4 £500 +35.14% 4
North East +9 1 - - 2
Acceptance Criteria
UK

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (3.27%) Confluence
1 5 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.96%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.65%) LiveLink
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.96%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.58%) SAP PM
3 3 (1.96%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.31%) SAP Hybris
4 2 (1.31%) VisionPLUS
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.80%) Azure
2 10 (6.54%) Power Platform
3 7 (4.58%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.61%) AWS
5 4 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.61%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.61%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.96%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.31%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.31%) SaaS
8 1 (0.65%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.65%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.31%) HTTP
2 1 (0.65%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.65%) 4G
2 1 (0.65%) 5G
2 1 (0.65%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.65%) GSM
2 1 (0.65%) LAN
2 1 (0.65%) LTE
2 1 (0.65%) SMS
2 1 (0.65%) SSL
2 1 (0.65%) TETRA
2 1 (0.65%) UMTS
2 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (3.92%) Power BI
2 4 (2.61%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (2.61%) MySQL
2 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (2.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (1.96%) GIS
4 2 (1.31%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.65%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (9.80%) JIRA
2 9 (5.88%) JMeter
3 8 (5.23%) Selenium
4 4 (2.61%) JUnit
5 2 (1.31%) Appium
5 2 (1.31%) Git
5 2 (1.31%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.31%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.31%) UI Automator
5 2 (1.31%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 53 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 27 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.80%) Finance
5 8 (5.23%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.92%) Games
6 6 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.61%) Banking
7 4 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Law
9 2 (1.31%) Automotive
9 2 (1.31%) Billing
9 2 (1.31%) German Language
9 2 (1.31%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.31%) Marketing
9 2 (1.31%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (35.29%) Analyst
2 41 (26.80%) Business Analyst
3 32 (20.92%) Senior
4 14 (9.15%) Senior Analyst
5 13 (8.50%) Developer
6 11 (7.19%) Lead
6 11 (7.19%) Service Manager
7 10 (6.54%) Senior Business Analyst
8 9 (5.88%) Product Owner
8 9 (5.88%) Project Manager
8 9 (5.88%) Service Transition Manager
8 9 (5.88%) Test Leader
8 9 (5.88%) Transition Manager
9 8 (5.23%) Tester
10 7 (4.58%) Requirements Manager
10 7 (4.58%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.92%) Business IT Analyst
11 6 (3.92%) IT Business Analyst
11 6 (3.92%) SAP Analyst
11 6 (3.92%) SAP Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.27%) JSON
1 5 (3.27%) XML
2 4 (2.61%) Gherkin
2 4 (2.61%) REST
3 3 (1.96%) .NET
3 3 (1.96%) HTML
3 3 (1.96%) RESTful
3 3 (1.96%) SOAP
4 2 (1.31%) Kafka
4 2 (1.31%) Web Services
4 2 (1.31%) YAML
5 1 (0.65%) Akka
5 1 (0.65%) BAPI
5 1 (0.65%) CSS
5 1 (0.65%) Express.js
5 1 (0.65%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.65%) React
5 1 (0.65%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.65%) Sass
5 1 (0.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.27%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.27%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.31%) Cyberattack
4 2 (1.31%) Equities
4 2 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (1.31%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.65%) Derivative
5 1 (0.65%) EPoS
5 1 (0.65%) NHS
5 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (0.65%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.65%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.27%) Linux
2 2 (1.31%) Android
2 2 (1.31%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (56.21%) Agile
2 65 (42.48%) User Stories
3 39 (25.49%) Business Analysis
4 38 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (24.18%) Scrum
6 23 (15.03%) Test Scripting
7 22 (14.38%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (13.73%) Project Management
9 20 (13.07%) Project Delivery
9 20 (13.07%) Requirements Gathering
10 17 (11.11%) SDLC
10 17 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (11.11%) Test Automation
11 15 (9.80%) Test Strategy
11 15 (9.80%) Use Case
12 14 (9.15%) Change Management
12 14 (9.15%) DevOps
13 13 (8.50%) Waterfall
14 12 (7.84%) ITIL
14 12 (7.84%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.15%) Java
1 14 (9.15%) SQL
2 6 (3.92%) VB
3 5 (3.27%) C
3 5 (3.27%) C++
3 5 (3.27%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.61%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.96%) C#
6 2 (1.31%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.31%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.31%) Python
6 2 (1.31%) Swift
7 1 (0.65%) ABAP
7 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.65%) R
7 1 (0.65%) Scala
7 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.80%) Degree
4 9 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.27%) CBAP
5 5 (3.27%) ISEB
6 3 (1.96%) CSPO
6 3 (1.96%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.31%) IIBA
7 2 (1.31%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.65%) QA
2 9 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.58%) WCAG
4 6 (3.92%) PMO
5 3 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.96%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.31%) COBIT
6 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.31%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.65%) NCSC
7 1 (0.65%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.96%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.65%) Grafana
2 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.50%) SAP
3 5 (3.27%) Adobe
4 4 (2.61%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.96%) ESRI
6 1 (0.65%) Ariba
6 1 (0.65%) Google
6 1 (0.65%) IBM
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle
6 1 (0.65%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.65%) Xamarin