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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 99 101
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +29
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 27 19 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.33% 1.05% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 1.15% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 16
10th Percentile £397 £443 £418
25th Percentile £426 £481 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £565 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% +5.12% +12.86%
75th Percentile £632 £590 £628
90th Percentile £643 £615 £663
Central London median daily rate £521 £565 £538
% change year-on-year -7.88% +5.12% +12.86%

All Process & 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 1,799 1,653 2,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.71% 91.58% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 1,037 1,498
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.19% -5.29%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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 10 March 2026.

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 9 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) MS Visio
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) AWS
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Big Data
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
1 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
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%) Gatling
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Hamcrest
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.70%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Finance
3 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Front Office
6 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (70.37%) Analyst
2 18 (66.67%) Business Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Agile Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Business Systems Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Product Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Product Business Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Business Finance Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Records Management Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Product Owner
6 1 (3.70%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (3.70%) React
1 1 (3.70%) REST
1 1 (3.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.81%) Reinsurance
3 2 (7.41%) FMCG
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) DTCC
4 1 (3.70%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.70%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) Agile
1 22 (81.48%) User Stories
2 12 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (29.63%) Roadmaps
3 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (29.63%) Wireframes
3 8 (29.63%) Workshop Facilitation
4 7 (25.93%) Business Analysis
4 7 (25.93%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (18.52%) DevOps
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (18.52%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (14.81%) Business Transformation
6 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.81%) Prototyping
6 4 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (14.81%) Requirements Workshops
6 4 (14.81%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.41%) Java
1 2 (7.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) CBAP
3 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) IIBA
3 1 (3.70%) ISEB
3 1 (3.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 1 (3.70%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) EMIR
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.70%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.70%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.70%) Murex
3 1 (3.70%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk