Acceptance Criteria Jobs in England

Acceptance Criteria
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Acceptance Criteria skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 458 383 293
Rank change year-on-year -75 -90 +140
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 420 801 1,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.86% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.90% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 280 432 1,023
10th Percentile £38,400 £40,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,434
Median % change year-on-year - +0.11% +9.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,396 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.18% -0.18% +9.52%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,814 89,178 125,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.85% 95.66% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 53,731 52,642 73,765
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,327
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -22 168 £78,750 +31.25% 53
North of England +30 78 £47,500 -17.03% 16
North West -3 53 £47,500 -17.39% 10
South West +4 52 £55,000 +7.32% 10
South East -31 51 £60,000 - 29
Midlands -42 46 £47,500 -2.67% 12
Yorkshire +92 25 £47,500 -13.64% 6
East of England +1 24 £34,500 -40.00% 11
East Midlands +1 23 £32,250 -40.06% 3
West Midlands -41 23 £50,000 +2.56% 9
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 46 (10.95%) Confluence
2 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.71%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.71%) Smallworld
3 2 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (4.05%) MS Visio
2 15 (3.57%) Trello
3 12 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.71%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.24%) InVision
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
8 1 (0.24%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) ResourceLink
2 3 (0.71%) SAP CRM
2 3 (0.71%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.48%) Visualfiles
4 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 78 (18.57%) Azure
2 54 (12.86%) AWS
3 34 (8.10%) Power Platform
4 25 (5.95%) SaaS
5 22 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (5.00%) Miro
7 16 (3.81%) Serverless
8 11 (2.62%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (1.19%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Pipelines
12 5 (1.19%) BrowserStack
12 5 (1.19%) GitHub
13 4 (0.95%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.86%) Internet
2 11 (2.62%) HTTP
3 10 (2.38%) Broadband
3 10 (2.38%) WPA
4 2 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.48%) SSH
4 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.48%) VPN
4 2 (0.48%) Wireless
5 1 (0.24%) 3G
5 1 (0.24%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.38%) Power BI
2 18 (4.29%) Relational Database
2 18 (4.29%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.81%) Tableau
4 13 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.86%) GIS
6 11 (2.62%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.38%) Big Data
7 10 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 10 (2.38%) Geospatial Data
8 8 (1.90%) HDInsight
9 6 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (1.43%) Star Schema
10 5 (1.19%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.95%) Looker
11 4 (0.95%) QlikView
12 3 (0.71%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.71%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 99 (23.57%) JIRA
2 19 (4.52%) Git
3 12 (2.86%) Cucumber
3 12 (2.86%) Selenium
4 11 (2.62%) Cypress.io
4 11 (2.62%) SpecFlow
5 9 (2.14%) Postman
6 6 (1.43%) JMeter
7 5 (1.19%) MSTest
7 5 (1.19%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.95%) GitLab
8 4 (0.95%) JUnit
8 4 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.95%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.71%) Appium
10 2 (0.48%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.48%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.24%) Axure RP
11 1 (0.24%) GoogleTest
General
1 131 (31.19%) Social Skills
2 109 (25.95%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (19.76%) Finance
4 48 (11.43%) Retail
5 42 (10.00%) Marketing
6 32 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 13 (3.10%) Pharmaceutical
9 10 (2.38%) Games
10 9 (2.14%) Legal
11 8 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.67%) Law
13 6 (1.43%) Advertising
14 5 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.19%) Retail Finance
14 5 (1.19%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.95%) Automotive
15 4 (0.95%) Banking
15 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 117 (27.86%) Analyst
2 86 (20.48%) Business Analyst
3 69 (16.43%) Product Manager
3 69 (16.43%) Product Owner
4 58 (13.81%) Senior
5 30 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 30 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
6 22 (5.24%) Developer
7 19 (4.52%) Lead
8 18 (4.29%) Software Engineer
9 16 (3.81%) Tester
10 13 (3.10%) Project Manager
10 13 (3.10%) Research Analyst
11 12 (2.86%) QA Engineer
11 12 (2.86%) Technical Business Analyst
11 12 (2.86%) Technical Product Owner
12 11 (2.62%) Digital Product Owner
12 11 (2.62%) Senior Manager
12 11 (2.62%) Technical Analyst
13 10 (2.38%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.81%) .NET
2 20 (4.76%) REST
3 19 (4.52%) Lightning Web Components
4 18 (4.29%) JSON
5 15 (3.57%) CSS
5 15 (3.57%) HTML
5 15 (3.57%) XML
6 10 (2.38%) React
7 9 (2.14%) Node.js
7 9 (2.14%) Web Services
8 8 (1.90%) .NET Framework
9 7 (1.67%) Blazor
10 6 (1.43%) .NET Core
10 6 (1.43%) Middleware
10 6 (1.43%) RESTful
11 5 (1.19%) ASP.NET
11 5 (1.19%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (1.19%) Next.js
12 4 (0.95%) Spring
12 4 (0.95%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 137 (32.62%) Product Ownership
2 25 (5.95%) NHS
3 24 (5.71%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.10%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.10%) Life Science
5 12 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 12 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.19%) PMI
11 4 (0.95%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.95%) Media Streaming
11 4 (0.95%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.38%) Linux
2 6 (1.43%) Windows
3 5 (1.19%) Android
3 5 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) AIX
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (65.24%) Agile
2 232 (55.24%) User Stories
3 135 (32.14%) Roadmaps
4 127 (30.24%) Scrum
5 94 (22.38%) Product Roadmap
6 88 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (19.76%) Product Backlog
8 70 (16.67%) Epics
9 68 (16.19%) Backlog Management
10 65 (15.48%) Product Vision
11 64 (15.24%) Backlog Refinement
12 61 (14.52%) Requirements Gathering
13 58 (13.81%) Project Management
13 58 (13.81%) Test Automation
14 56 (13.33%) Business Analysis
14 56 (13.33%) Product Strategy
14 56 (13.33%) User Experience
15 53 (12.62%) Market Research
15 53 (12.62%) Product Management
15 53 (12.62%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 76 (18.10%) SQL
2 40 (9.52%) C#
3 31 (7.38%) Python
4 29 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.81%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.86%) T-SQL
7 11 (2.62%) R
8 9 (2.14%) Apex Code
8 9 (2.14%) Java
9 8 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.48%) Bash
10 2 (0.48%) Bicep
10 2 (0.48%) Perl
10 2 (0.48%) Tcl
10 2 (0.48%) VB
11 1 (0.24%) C
11 1 (0.24%) C++
11 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.24%) Go
Qualifications
1 88 (20.95%) Degree
2 41 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 20 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (3.10%) CSPO
6 10 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.38%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.67%) ISEB
8 6 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (1.43%) IIBA
8 6 (1.43%) PMP
9 5 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.95%) MBA
11 2 (0.48%) CAPM
11 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (17.62%) QA
2 13 (3.10%) GLP
3 12 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.90%) GDPR
5 7 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.67%) PMO
6 6 (1.43%) IEC 62304
7 4 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.48%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (1.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.19%) Grafana
1 5 (1.19%) Kibana
1 5 (1.19%) Terraform
2 4 (0.95%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.24%) Consul
4 1 (0.24%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (7.86%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 9 (2.14%) Databricks
4 8 (1.90%) Xero
5 4 (0.95%) SAP
6 3 (0.71%) Adobe
6 3 (0.71%) Cadence
7 2 (0.48%) Apple
7 2 (0.48%) Cisco
7 2 (0.48%) Google
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle
7 2 (0.48%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.24%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.24%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.24%) Marketo
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.24%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.24%) Splunk
8 1 (0.24%) Symantec
8 1 (0.24%) Talend