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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 87 116
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 +31
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 36 43 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.04% 2.05% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.23% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 22
10th Percentile £439 £375 £363
25th Percentile £500 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £474
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +21.37% -12.27%
75th Percentile £697 £675 £606
90th Percentile £765 £725 £632
Central London median daily rate £613 £568 £474
% change year-on-year +7.93% +19.79% -5.30%

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 1,661 1,932 2,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.21% 92.09% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,224 1,857
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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
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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

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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 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 7 (19.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) HFM
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
1 4 (11.11%) 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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) 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 21 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (41.67%) Finance
3 13 (36.11%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (19.44%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (8.33%) Banking
7 3 (8.33%) Retail
8 1 (2.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 26 (72.22%) Business Analyst
2 24 (66.67%) Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Digital Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Digital Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Digital Product Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Finance Business Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) IT Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Product Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Product Owner
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Digital Product Owner
6 2 (5.56%) Payments Business Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) ADO
1 1 (2.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.56%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) IVR
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (2.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (88.89%) Agile
2 28 (77.78%) User Stories
3 16 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (33.33%) Product Backlog
5 11 (30.56%) Backlog Refinement
6 10 (27.78%) Backlog Management
7 9 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 9 (25.00%) Business Analysis
7 9 (25.00%) Sprint Review
8 8 (22.22%) Data Analysis
8 8 (22.22%) Epics
8 8 (22.22%) Scrum
8 8 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
9 7 (19.44%) Business Case
9 7 (19.44%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (19.44%) Project Delivery
9 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
9 7 (19.44%) Translating Business Requirements
10 6 (16.67%) Data Reconciliation
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) Java
1 1 (2.78%) Korn
1 1 (2.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.56%) PSD2
3 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) PMO
3 1 (2.78%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Hyperion
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) Tagetik
4 1 (2.78%) Citrix
4 1 (2.78%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Workday