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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 97 89
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +30
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 35 25 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.51% 1.45% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.55% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 25
10th Percentile £498 £402 £375
25th Percentile £513 £463 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% +0.48% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £580 £638
90th Percentile £655 £773 £697
Central London median daily rate £558 £513 £523
% change year-on-year +8.78% -1.91% +10.00%

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 1,961 1,613 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.67% 93.56% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,012 1,391
10th Percentile £363 £351 £350
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +2.46% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 21 May 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 21 May 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 3 (8.57%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.71%) AWS
3 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.71%) GCP
3 2 (5.71%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Power BI
2 1 (2.86%) Big Data
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.86%) Gatling
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) GitLab
3 1 (2.86%) JMeter
3 1 (2.86%) Postman
3 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Legal
5 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Front Office
6 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Military
6 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (60.00%) Analyst
2 19 (54.29%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Product Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Product Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Product Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Analytics Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Process Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) UX Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Middleware
1 2 (5.71%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.43%) Reinsurance
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) FMCG
3 2 (5.71%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.86%) CMDB
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Derivative
4 1 (2.86%) DTCC
4 1 (2.86%) Equities
4 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (74.29%) User Stories
2 19 (54.29%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) User Acceptance Testing
4 10 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
5 9 (25.71%) Business Analysis
5 9 (25.71%) Roadmaps
6 8 (22.86%) Product Roadmap
6 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (20.00%) Analytics
7 7 (20.00%) Wireframes
8 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (17.14%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (14.29%) CRM
9 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 5 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 5 (14.29%) Epics
9 5 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
10 4 (11.43%) Validation
10 4 (11.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) CBAP
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) IIBA
2 1 (2.86%) ISEB
2 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (2.86%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.86%) Basel III
2 1 (2.86%) COREP
2 1 (2.86%) EMIR
2 1 (2.86%) FINREP
2 1 (2.86%) GDPR
2 1 (2.86%) MiFID
2 1 (2.86%) PMO
2 1 (2.86%) Solvency II
2 1 (2.86%) WCAG
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Bloomberg
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.86%) Kronos
3 1 (2.86%) Murex
3 1 (2.86%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow