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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 91 120
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 +35
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 38 44 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.86% 1.91% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.08% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 24
10th Percentile £450 £375 £363
25th Percentile £494 £441 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £575 £474
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% +21.37% -9.76%
75th Percentile £731 £675 £604
90th Percentile £800 £725 £668
London median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.00 -
London median hourly rate £67.50 £33.07 £75.00
% change year-on-year +104.11% -55.91% -4.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,915 2,115 3,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.83% 91.80% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,431 2,180
10th Percentile £325 £375 £350
25th Percentile £423 £472 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.03%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £772 £788 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 20 17
10th Percentile £19.24 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £20.43 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -17.65%
75th Percentile £47.68 £65.63 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% -12.50% +8.84%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Acceptance Criteria

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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 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Acceptance Criteria

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DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -6 37 £598 -0.42% 23
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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 8 (21.05%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) HFM
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.63%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.63%) Asana
4 1 (2.63%) AWS
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Star Schema
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.63%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.63%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) JIRA
2 2 (5.26%) Postman
2 2 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.63%) Gatling
3 1 (2.63%) GitLab
3 1 (2.63%) Hamcrest
3 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.63%) JUnit
3 1 (2.63%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (55.26%) Social Skills
2 13 (34.21%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (28.95%) Finance
4 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (10.53%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Back Office
7 1 (2.63%) Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Front Office
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (71.05%) Business Analyst
2 25 (65.79%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Senior
5 3 (7.89%) Digital Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Digital Business Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Digital Product Manager
5 3 (7.89%) IT Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Product Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Product Owner
5 3 (7.89%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Digital Product Owner
6 2 (5.26%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) ADO
2 1 (2.63%) Pandas
2 1 (2.63%) PySpark
2 1 (2.63%) pytest
2 1 (2.63%) REST
2 1 (2.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.26%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.63%) CMDB
3 1 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) IVR
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (84.21%) Agile
2 29 (76.32%) User Stories
3 18 (47.37%) User Acceptance Testing
4 14 (36.84%) Business Analysis
5 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (26.32%) Product Backlog
6 10 (26.32%) Workshop Facilitation
7 9 (23.68%) Backlog Management
8 8 (21.05%) Backlog Refinement
8 8 (21.05%) DevOps
9 7 (18.42%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 7 (18.42%) Business Case
9 7 (18.42%) Data Analysis
9 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
9 7 (18.42%) Sprint Review
10 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (15.79%) Epics
10 6 (15.79%) Project Delivery
10 6 (15.79%) Scrum
10 6 (15.79%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.26%) Python
1 2 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (2.63%) C#
2 1 (2.63%) Java
2 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.63%) CBAP
3 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) Citrix
3 1 (2.63%) Databricks
3 1 (2.63%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.63%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.63%) Informatica
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) Murex
3 1 (2.63%) SAP
3 1 (2.63%) Splunk
3 1 (2.63%) Tagetik
3 1 (2.63%) Workday