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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 78 87
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 +25
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 47 38 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.14% 2.18% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 2.31% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 26
10th Percentile £400 £429 £413
25th Percentile £463 £466 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £581 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% -1.06% +18.69%
75th Percentile £638 £683 £675
90th Percentile £688 £763 £725
Central London median daily rate £558 £581 £571
% change year-on-year -4.09% +1.75% +15.40%

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 1,981 1,642 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.00% 94.37% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 1,103 1,211
10th Percentile £365 £325 £368
25th Percentile £455 £420 £470
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 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.02 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.83 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -27.73% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.13 £47.00 £102.25
90th Percentile £59.70 £66.25 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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 2 October 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
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 6 (12.77%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) CMS
2 2 (4.26%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.89%) Azure
2 6 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.26%) SaaS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) AWS
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.13%) GitHub
4 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.13%) Miro
4 1 (2.13%) Serverless
4 1 (2.13%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) Internet
1 2 (4.26%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
1 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Power BI
2 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.26%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) JIRA
2 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.26%) Gatling
3 2 (4.26%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.13%) Git
4 1 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) Gradle
4 1 (2.13%) JMeter
4 1 (2.13%) JUnit
4 1 (2.13%) Maven
4 1 (2.13%) Mockito
4 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
General
1 20 (42.55%) Finance
2 18 (38.30%) Social Skills
3 15 (31.91%) Banking
4 12 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.64%) Retail Banking
6 4 (8.51%) Investment Banking
7 3 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 3 (6.38%) Retail
8 2 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 2 (4.26%) Marketing
8 2 (4.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.13%) Advertising
9 1 (2.13%) Back Office
9 1 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.13%) Front Office
9 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (46.81%) Analyst
2 21 (44.68%) Business Analyst
3 6 (12.77%) Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Product Manager
3 6 (12.77%) Senior
4 4 (8.51%) Consultant
4 4 (8.51%) Data Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Product Owner
4 4 (8.51%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Technical Business Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Analytics Manager
5 3 (6.38%) C# Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Digital Business Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Junior
5 3 (6.38%) Lead
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) .NET
2 4 (8.51%) REST
3 2 (4.26%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.26%) ADO.NET
3 2 (4.26%) Ajax
3 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 2 (4.26%) Middleware
3 2 (4.26%) Playwright
3 2 (4.26%) SOAP
3 2 (4.26%) Web Services
3 2 (4.26%) XML
3 2 (4.26%) XSL
3 2 (4.26%) XSLT
4 1 (2.13%) AssertJ
4 1 (2.13%) MACH
4 1 (2.13%) React
4 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.13%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.40%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.26%) Derivative
2 2 (4.26%) Learning Management System
2 2 (4.26%) Life Science
2 2 (4.26%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.13%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.13%) LIMS
3 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.13%) PMI
3 1 (2.13%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
1 4 (8.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (65.96%) User Stories
2 24 (51.06%) Agile
3 16 (34.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (27.66%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (27.66%) Validation
5 11 (23.40%) Scrum
6 10 (21.28%) Product Backlog
6 10 (21.28%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (21.28%) Workshop Facilitation
7 9 (19.15%) Analytics
7 9 (19.15%) DevOps
7 9 (19.15%) Risk Management
7 9 (19.15%) Sprint Planning
7 9 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (17.02%) AI
8 8 (17.02%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (17.02%) Business Analysis
8 8 (17.02%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 8 (17.02%) Translating Business Requirements
9 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) SQL
2 5 (10.64%) C#
3 4 (8.51%) PL/SQL
3 4 (8.51%) Python
4 2 (4.26%) C
4 2 (4.26%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) Korn
4 2 (4.26%) ProC
5 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Degree
2 5 (10.64%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) CSPO
5 1 (2.13%) IIBA
5 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.26%) GxP
4 1 (2.13%) Basel III
4 1 (2.13%) COREP
4 1 (2.13%) FINREP
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
4 1 (2.13%) PMO
4 1 (2.13%) Solvency II
4 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Oracle
3 4 (8.51%) Sitecore
4 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.13%) Databricks
5 1 (2.13%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.13%) Kronos
5 1 (2.13%) Workday