Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Acceptance Criteria
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £475 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +5.56% +20.00% -25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 286 293 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 86.93% 88.79% 83.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 125 116
10th Percentile £168 £205 £213
25th Percentile £361 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +9.83% -3.89%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £550
90th Percentile £672 £686 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 68 161
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.46 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.71 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +2.93% +11.93%
75th Percentile £18.50 £25.15 £21.46
90th Percentile £35.91 £60.00 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 3 £475 - 1
Acceptance Criteria
East of England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
General
1 3 (75.00%) Back Office
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Mortgage Business Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Transformation Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Credit Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) AI Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (25.00%) Human-in-the-Loop
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) LLM
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CBAP
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow