Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Acceptance Criteria
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 104 104
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 -26
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 11 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.90% 0.61% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.69% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 9
10th Percentile £350 - £473
25th Percentile £425 £413 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £425 £520
Median % change year-on-year +19.12% -18.27% -15.10%
75th Percentile £541 £451 £550
90th Percentile £569 £460 £573
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.50% -3.85% +10.64%

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 1,103 1,442 1,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 90.41% 87.93% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 757 986
10th Percentile £318 £323 £260
25th Percentile £413 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 63 66
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.32 £22.80
25th Percentile £18.19 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.46 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% -2.16% +22.36%
75th Percentile £64.38 £64.08 £73.59
90th Percentile £82.90 £75.37 £76.55
South East median hourly rate £21.25 £59.25 £54.37
% change year-on-year -64.13% +8.97% +67.29%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Acceptance Criteria relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Acceptance Criteria

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 11 October 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 +34 7 £506 +14.15% 2
Bracknell -4 2 - -
Acceptance Criteria
South East

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 2 (18.18%) Smallworld
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (18.18%) Slack
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) GIS
2 1 (9.09%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) General Ledger
2 2 (18.18%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Business Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Product Owner
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Oracle Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Transformation Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) GIS Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) GIS Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Product Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Service Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ADO
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) User Stories
3 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) Backlog Refinement
4 3 (27.27%) Product Backlog
4 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Workshop Facilitation
5 2 (18.18%) Accounts Receivable
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Epics
5 2 (18.18%) Inventory Management
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (18.18%) Sprint Review
5 2 (18.18%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 1 (9.09%) Magik
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) ESRI
2 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
2 1 (9.09%) HubSpot
2 1 (9.09%) Juniper
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media
2 1 (9.09%) Workday