Acceptance Criteria Jobs in the North West

Acceptance Criteria
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 214 211
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 +5
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 52 76 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.52% 0.98% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 1.03% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 36 54 84
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,375 £34,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £43,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +12.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £53,421 £61,250 £64,106
90th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £75,314
England median annual salary £59,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.48% - +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,207 7,382 9,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.31% 95.54% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,214 3,877 5,302
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the North West

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the North West.

Salary trend for Acceptance Criteria in the North West

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the North West

Acceptance Criteria
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Acceptance Criteria within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +11 40 £47,500 -13.64% 7
Cheshire -3 6 - - 1
Merseyside +9 3 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Lancashire -36 3 £52,500 -8.70%
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (19.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.92%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.92%) InVision
2 1 (1.92%) Sketch
2 1 (1.92%) Zeplin
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 5 (9.62%) AWS
2 5 (9.62%) BrowserStack
3 4 (7.69%) Miro
4 2 (3.85%) Azure
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
4 2 (3.85%) GitHub
4 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) DSL
1 2 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (46.15%) JIRA
2 6 (11.54%) Postman
3 5 (9.62%) JMeter
4 4 (7.69%) Git
5 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.92%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.92%) Selenium
6 1 (1.92%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.92%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 17 (32.69%) Finance
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.77%) Retail
3 11 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (9.62%) Retail Finance
6 4 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Marketing
8 1 (1.92%) Automotive
8 1 (1.92%) Games
8 1 (1.92%) Legal
8 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 33 (63.46%) Analyst
2 26 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 5 (9.62%) Test Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Product Manager
5 4 (7.69%) QA Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
6 3 (5.77%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (3.85%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (1.92%) Designer
8 1 (1.92%) E-Commerce Analyst
8 1 (1.92%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
8 1 (1.92%) Lead
8 1 (1.92%) Service Designer
8 1 (1.92%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) RESTful
2 3 (5.77%) .NET
3 2 (3.85%) Gherkin
3 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
3 2 (3.85%) JSON
3 2 (3.85%) JSON Schema
3 2 (3.85%) REST
3 2 (3.85%) Swagger
3 2 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (26.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Android
1 4 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (71.15%) Agile
2 32 (61.54%) User Stories
3 20 (38.46%) Roadmaps
4 18 (34.62%) Workshop Facilitation
5 10 (19.23%) Business Analysis
5 10 (19.23%) Fintech
5 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (15.38%) Business Strategy
6 8 (15.38%) Customer Experience
6 8 (15.38%) Migration
6 8 (15.38%) Sprint Backlog
6 8 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (13.46%) Change Control
7 7 (13.46%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (11.54%) Issue Tracking
8 6 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
8 6 (11.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.69%) SQL
2 3 (5.77%) C#
3 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) PMI Certification
3 3 (5.77%) PMP
4 2 (3.85%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.23%) QA
2 6 (11.54%) IEC 62304
3 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) PMO
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
3 1 (1.92%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Grafana
1 5 (9.62%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.92%) Adobe