Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 88 130
Rank change year-on-year +1 +42 +30
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 34 38 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.91% 1.78% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.96% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 22
10th Percentile £464 £375 £357
25th Percentile £494 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +5.53% -7.87%
75th Percentile £683 £638 £615
90th Percentile £748 £698 £675
Central London median daily rate £560 £525 £498
% change year-on-year +6.67% +5.53% -6.57%

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 1,669 1,940 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.82% 91.04% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 1,350 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

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 8 (23.53%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) HFM
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.94%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) SaaS
4 2 (5.88%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.94%) Asana
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Star Schema
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.94%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.94%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Postman
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.94%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.94%) Gatling
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) Hamcrest
3 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.94%) JUnit
3 1 (2.94%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Finance
3 10 (29.41%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (8.82%) Retail
7 2 (5.88%) Banking
8 1 (2.94%) Back Office
8 1 (2.94%) Front Office
8 1 (2.94%) Legal
8 1 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Analyst
1 22 (64.71%) Business Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Digital Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Product Owner
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Digital Business Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Finance Business Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.82%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Digital Product Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Digital Product Owner
5 2 (5.88%) IT Manager
5 2 (5.88%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Product Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) ADO
2 1 (2.94%) Pandas
2 1 (2.94%) PySpark
2 1 (2.94%) pytest
2 1 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.94%) CMDB
3 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.94%) IVR
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (85.29%) Agile
2 26 (76.47%) User Stories
3 16 (47.06%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (35.29%) Backlog Refinement
5 11 (32.35%) Business Analysis
6 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (26.47%) Workshop Facilitation
7 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (23.53%) DevOps
8 7 (20.59%) Product Backlog
8 7 (20.59%) Sprint Planning
8 7 (20.59%) Sprint Review
9 6 (17.65%) Analytics
9 6 (17.65%) Backlog Management
9 6 (17.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 6 (17.65%) Business Case
9 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
9 6 (17.65%) Scrum
9 6 (17.65%) Sprint Retrospective
9 6 (17.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) Python
1 2 (5.88%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) C#
2 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) CBAP
3 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle
1 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.94%) Citrix
2 1 (2.94%) Databricks
2 1 (2.94%) Hyperion
2 1 (2.94%) Informatica
2 1 (2.94%) Murex
2 1 (2.94%) SAP
2 1 (2.94%) Splunk
2 1 (2.94%) Tagetik