Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 88 118
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 +28
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 25 39 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.43% 1.80% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 1.99% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 25
10th Percentile £402 £375 £359
25th Percentile £463 £418 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +10.00% -12.04%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £600
90th Percentile £773 £697 £660
Central London median daily rate £513 £523 £475
% change year-on-year -1.91% +10.00% -12.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,635 1,957 3,208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.59% 90.39% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,377 2,170
10th Percentile £353 £350 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £564 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.00%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) SaaS
4 2 (8.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Power BI
1 2 (8.00%) Star Schema
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JIRA
2 2 (8.00%) Postman
2 2 (8.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.00%) Gatling
3 1 (4.00%) GitLab
3 1 (4.00%) Hamcrest
3 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.00%) JUnit
3 1 (4.00%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Back Office
6 1 (4.00%) Front Office
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Marketing
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Analyst
2 16 (64.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Digital Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Product Owner
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Business Integration Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) FX Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Integration Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Product Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) ADO
2 1 (4.00%) Pandas
2 1 (4.00%) PySpark
2 1 (4.00%) pytest
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Reinsurance
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.00%) IVR
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) Agile
1 21 (84.00%) User Stories
2 12 (48.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 9 (36.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 8 (32.00%) Business Analysis
5 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (28.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 6 (24.00%) Analytics
6 6 (24.00%) DevOps
6 6 (24.00%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (24.00%) Validation
7 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 5 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
8 4 (16.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 4 (16.00%) Business Case
8 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (16.00%) Product Strategy
8 4 (16.00%) Product Vision
8 4 (16.00%) Sprint Review
8 4 (16.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) Python
1 2 (8.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) C#
2 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.00%) Citrix
2 1 (4.00%) Databricks
2 1 (4.00%) Google
2 1 (4.00%) Informatica
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Murex
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) SAP
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk