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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 85 88
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +46
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 43 32 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.78% 1.83% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 1.95% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 23
10th Percentile £400 £463 £375
25th Percentile £498 £488 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £697 £638
90th Percentile - £750 £698
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +6.06%

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 2,077 1,643 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.78% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 1,050 1,354
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 18 14
10th Percentile £17.53 £16.90 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.29
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £43.00 £54.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £71.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £30.04 £27.41
% change year-on-year -9.27% +9.60% -21.70%

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 26 June 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
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. 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
London Bridge - 1 £550 -
Acceptance Criteria
Central London

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 2 (4.65%) Confluence
1 2 (4.65%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.30%) Azure
2 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.65%) SaaS
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.33%) GCP
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub
3 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Internet
1 2 (4.65%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.65%) Power BI
1 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
1 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
1 2 (4.65%) SQLPlus
2 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.65%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.65%) Gatling
3 2 (4.65%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) REST Assured
3 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.33%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) JMeter
4 1 (2.33%) JUnit
4 1 (2.33%) Mockito
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Finance
3 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Banking
4 6 (13.95%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.65%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Legal
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (48.84%) Analyst
2 18 (41.86%) Business Analyst
3 5 (11.63%) Product Owner
3 5 (11.63%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
4 4 (9.30%) Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Product Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Analytics Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Consultant
5 3 (6.98%) Junior
6 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Management Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Process Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Product Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Product Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Senior
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.63%) REST
2 4 (9.30%) .NET
3 2 (4.65%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.65%) ADO.NET
3 2 (4.65%) Ajax
3 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.65%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 2 (4.65%) Middleware
3 2 (4.65%) Playwright
3 2 (4.65%) SOAP
3 2 (4.65%) Web Services
3 2 (4.65%) XML
3 2 (4.65%) XSL
3 2 (4.65%) XSLT
4 1 (2.33%) ADO
4 1 (2.33%) AssertJ
4 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.33%) React
4 1 (2.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.63%) Reinsurance
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.65%) FMCG
4 2 (4.65%) Learning Management System
4 2 (4.65%) Life Science
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.33%) CMDB
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) Equities
5 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.33%) LIMS
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
1 4 (9.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) User Stories
2 20 (46.51%) Agile
3 11 (25.58%) Roadmaps
3 11 (25.58%) User Acceptance Testing
4 10 (23.26%) Business Analysis
4 10 (23.26%) Product Roadmap
4 10 (23.26%) Workshop Facilitation
5 9 (20.93%) Sprint Planning
6 8 (18.60%) Analytics
6 8 (18.60%) Product Backlog
6 8 (18.60%) Risk Management
6 8 (18.60%) Validation
7 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (16.28%) Wireframes
8 6 (13.95%) AI
8 6 (13.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 6 (13.95%) Decision-Making
8 6 (13.95%) Epics
8 6 (13.95%) Scrum
8 6 (13.95%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) C#
1 4 (9.30%) PL/SQL
1 4 (9.30%) Python
1 4 (9.30%) SQL
2 2 (4.65%) C
2 2 (4.65%) ProC
3 1 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.63%) Degree
3 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) CSPO
5 1 (2.33%) CBAP
5 1 (2.33%) IIBA
5 1 (2.33%) ISEB
5 1 (2.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) QA
2 2 (4.65%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) GxP
3 1 (2.33%) Basel III
3 1 (2.33%) COREP
3 1 (2.33%) FINREP
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) PMO
3 1 (2.33%) Solvency II
3 1 (2.33%) WCAG
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Salesforce
2 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) Kronos
4 1 (2.33%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow