Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Birmingham

Acceptance Criteria
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 65 59
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 5 2 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.96% 0.26% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 0.31% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile £345 £424 £430
25th Percentile £413 £433 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £456 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% -23.96% +6.67%
75th Percentile £483 £470 -
90th Percentile - £473 £841
West Midlands median daily rate £472 £450 £563
% change year-on-year +4.78% -20.00% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 453 640 794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.62% 82.90% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 421 534
10th Percentile £163 £250 £263
25th Percentile £375 £373 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £22.05 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.08% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £29.00 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -19.71% +26.98% +4.24%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Birmingham

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Birmingham

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Birmingham

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tester
3 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Stories
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Compatibility Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (20.00%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft