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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 89 91
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +24
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 45 38 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.88% 2.04% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.16% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 27
10th Percentile £400 £450 £375
25th Percentile £463 £494 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -4.40% +38.50%
75th Percentile £638 £731 £675
90th Percentile £645 £800 £725
Central London median daily rate £550 £598 £600
% change year-on-year -7.95% -0.42% +32.96%

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 2,100 1,759 1,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.54% 94.27% 91.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,431 1,153 1,280
10th Percentile £375 £331 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £793
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% +11.24% -22.86%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 (4.44%) Confluence
1 2 (4.44%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.44%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.44%) SaaS
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.22%) GCP
3 1 (2.22%) GitHub
3 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.22%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Internet
1 2 (4.44%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.44%) Power BI
2 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.44%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.44%) Gatling
3 2 (4.44%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) JMeter
4 1 (2.22%) JUnit
4 1 (2.22%) Mockito
4 1 (2.22%) REST Assured
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 18 (40.00%) Finance
3 14 (31.11%) Banking
4 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (15.56%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (11.11%) Retail Banking
7 3 (6.67%) Investment Banking
7 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.22%) Front Office
9 1 (2.22%) Legal
9 1 (2.22%) Marketing
9 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (51.11%) Analyst
2 21 (46.67%) Business Analyst
3 5 (11.11%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 5 (11.11%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
3 5 (11.11%) Senior
3 5 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Product Owner
5 3 (6.67%) Analytics Manager
5 3 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Consultant
5 3 (6.67%) Junior
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Database Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Management Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) .NET
2 4 (8.89%) REST
3 2 (4.44%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.44%) ADO.NET
3 2 (4.44%) Ajax
3 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 2 (4.44%) Middleware
3 2 (4.44%) Playwright
3 2 (4.44%) SOAP
3 2 (4.44%) Web Services
3 2 (4.44%) XML
3 2 (4.44%) XSL
3 2 (4.44%) XSLT
4 1 (2.22%) ADO
4 1 (2.22%) AssertJ
4 1 (2.22%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.22%) Kafka
4 1 (2.22%) React
4 1 (2.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.11%) Reinsurance
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.44%) Learning Management System
4 2 (4.44%) Life Science
5 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.22%) CMDB
5 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) Equities
5 1 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) LIMS
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) PMI
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
1 4 (8.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (68.89%) User Stories
2 24 (53.33%) Agile
3 14 (31.11%) Workshop Facilitation
4 12 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (24.44%) Business Analysis
5 11 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (22.22%) Analytics
6 10 (22.22%) Product Backlog
7 9 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
7 9 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 9 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 9 (20.00%) Scrum
7 9 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
8 8 (17.78%) Backlog Refinement
8 8 (17.78%) Validation
9 7 (15.56%) AI
9 7 (15.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.56%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) C#
1 5 (11.11%) SQL
2 4 (8.89%) PL/SQL
2 4 (8.89%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) C
3 2 (4.44%) ProC
4 1 (2.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) CSPO
4 1 (2.22%) IIBA
4 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.44%) GxP
4 1 (2.22%) Basel III
4 1 (2.22%) COREP
4 1 (2.22%) FINREP
4 1 (2.22%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) PMO
4 1 (2.22%) Solvency II
4 1 (2.22%) WCAG
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 4 (8.89%) Oracle
3 4 (8.89%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) Kronos
4 1 (2.22%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow