Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 86 113
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 +42
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 36 40 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.12% 1.90% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% 2.07% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 20
10th Percentile £425 £413 £383
25th Percentile £449 £513 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £619 £588 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +18.69% -
75th Percentile £711 £669 £602
90th Percentile £768 £700 £635
Central London median daily rate £619 £571 £495
% change year-on-year +8.32% +15.40% -

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 1,603 1,936 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.52% 91.88% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,194 1,786
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £598
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £786 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.05%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.06%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Acceptance Criteria

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 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (19.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Azure
1 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (2.78%) Asana
2 1 (2.78%) AWS
2 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.78%) Gatling
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Hamcrest
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) JUnit
2 1 (2.78%) Postman
2 1 (2.78%) Selenium
2 1 (2.78%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
General
1 23 (63.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (50.00%) Finance
3 16 (44.44%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (30.56%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (8.33%) Retail
8 2 (5.56%) Banking
9 1 (2.78%) Back Office
9 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (72.22%) Business Analyst
2 25 (69.44%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Business Systems Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Finance Business Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Digital Product Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Product Owner
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Digital Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Digital Product Owner
6 2 (5.56%) IT Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Payments Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Payments Business Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Telephony Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) ADO
1 1 (2.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (38.89%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Educational Technology
2 1 (2.78%) e-Learning
2 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.78%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (88.89%) Agile
2 27 (75.00%) User Stories
3 16 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (36.11%) Product Backlog
5 12 (33.33%) Backlog Management
6 11 (30.56%) Backlog Refinement
7 10 (27.78%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (27.78%) Scrum
8 9 (25.00%) Business Analysis
8 9 (25.00%) Data Analysis
8 9 (25.00%) Sprint Review
9 8 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (22.22%) Epics
10 7 (19.44%) Data Modelling
10 7 (19.44%) Financial Modelling
10 7 (19.44%) Impact Assessments
10 7 (19.44%) Project Delivery
10 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
10 7 (19.44%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) Java
1 1 (2.78%) Korn
1 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.56%) PSD2
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
3 1 (2.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.56%) Hyperion
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) Tagetik
3 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.78%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk
3 1 (2.78%) Workday