Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Central London

Acceptance Criteria
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 97 130
Rank change year-on-year -4 +33 +26
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 27 37 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.36% 1.52% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.68% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 24
10th Percentile £394 £375 £358
25th Percentile £438 £415 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +10.00% -12.04%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £604
90th Percentile £750 £701 £666
London median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.00 -
London median hourly rate £67.50 £32.36 £64.00
% change year-on-year +108.62% -49.45% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,844 2,202 3,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.13% 90.62% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 1,567 2,335
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £773 £800 £823
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.18
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.75 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £30.41 £55.00
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.47 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +21.43% -28.21% +5.41%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
City of London -8 24 £525 +0.48% 4
West End of London - 1 £413 - 1
Acceptance Criteria
London

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.70%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) SaaS
4 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Intranet
1 1 (3.70%) LAN
1 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (3.70%) Wireless
1 1 (3.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.70%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.70%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Postman
2 2 (7.41%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.70%) Gatling
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Hamcrest
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Back Office
6 1 (3.70%) Front Office
6 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Analyst
2 16 (59.26%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Digital Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Product Owner
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Digital Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Support Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Product Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) ADO
2 1 (3.70%) Pandas
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) pytest
2 1 (3.70%) REST
2 1 (3.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.41%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.70%) CMDB
3 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.70%) IVR
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) Agile
1 22 (81.48%) User Stories
2 11 (40.74%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (29.63%) Backlog Refinement
3 8 (29.63%) Business Analysis
4 7 (25.93%) Analytics
4 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (25.93%) DevOps
4 7 (25.93%) Workshop Facilitation
5 6 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (22.22%) Validation
6 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
6 5 (18.52%) Product Strategy
6 5 (18.52%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (18.52%) Sprint Retrospective
6 5 (18.52%) Use Case
7 4 (14.81%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 4 (14.81%) Business Case
7 4 (14.81%) Product Vision
7 4 (14.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Python
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) C#
2 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.70%) Citrix
2 1 (3.70%) Databricks
2 1 (3.70%) Ekahau
2 1 (3.70%) Google
2 1 (3.70%) Informatica
2 1 (3.70%) Meraki
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Murex
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) SAP
2 1 (3.70%) Splunk