Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Bristol

Acceptance Criteria
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 69 82
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.87% 0.54% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.65% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £302 £222 £453
25th Percentile £317 £446 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £570 £625
Median % change year-on-year -26.54% -8.80% +38.89%
75th Percentile £517 £575 £663
90th Percentile £537 £584 £678
South West median daily rate £419 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -29.62% +3.48% +17.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 632 768 941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.59% 82.58% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 431 651
10th Percentile £241 £263 £310
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £645
90th Percentile £650 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 152 119
10th Percentile £12.82 £51.50 £19.74
25th Percentile £18.51 £65.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.86% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.44 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +3.85% +18.18%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Bristol over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP
1 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Coordinator
3 1 (16.67%) Service Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Test Coordinator
3 1 (16.67%) Transition Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
1 2 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 2 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Smoke Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 2 (33.33%) Use Case
1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Service Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Identification
2 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) NIST