Operational Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Operational Acceptance Criteria
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Operational Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.055% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Operational 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 1,495 1,059 1,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.14% 90.90% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 657 749
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £433 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £638
90th Percentile £732 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.07% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 41 68
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £19.35
25th Percentile £34.29 £17.30 £42.79
Median hourly rate £80.00 £32.31 £61.28
Median % change year-on-year +147.60% -47.27% +2.13%
75th Percentile £91.31 £58.00 £68.05
90th Percentile £104.50 £87.25 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £50.24 £21.39 £57.35
% change year-on-year +134.89% -62.70% +6.33%

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Operational Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Operational 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 Operational Acceptance Criteria within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 September 2026. 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
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Operational Acceptance Criteria
South East

Operational 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Compliance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL Certification