Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Berkshire

Acceptance Criteria
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 108 90
Rank change year-on-year +21 -18 -13
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 7 14 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.60% 0.71% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.80% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 17
10th Percentile £498 £433 £377
25th Percentile £531 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.75% +7.37%
75th Percentile - £588 £538
90th Percentile - £633 £550
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Acceptance Criteria falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,090 1,753 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.32% 88.76% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 917 1,045
10th Percentile £313 £213 £347
25th Percentile £414 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -3.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £704
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £19.00 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.00 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +5.50% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.43%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Berkshire

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Berkshire

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Berkshire

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
Reading +30 7 £550 -4.35% 3
Acceptance Criteria
South East

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) Transformation Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) Blazor
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Learning Management System
2 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) User Stories
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Virgin Media
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle