Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the City of London

Acceptance Criteria
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Acceptance Criteria skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 126 158
Rank change year-on-year +41 +32 -26
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 42 46 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.95% 1.33% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 1.45% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 27
10th Percentile £375 £361 £438
25th Percentile £418 £396 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -12.04% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £650
90th Percentile £696 £675 £688
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +10.53% -12.04% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Acceptance Criteria is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 3,173 3,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.63% 91.49% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 2,145 2,906
10th Percentile £350 £363 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 44
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.33 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.63 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.46 £57.50 £55.38
90th Percentile £49.41 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

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

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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

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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 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

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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 9 (21.43%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.38%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (2.38%) dbt
3 1 (2.38%) GCP
3 1 (2.38%) Serverless
3 1 (2.38%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) FTP
1 1 (2.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.38%) Data Mart
2 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.38%) GIS
2 1 (2.38%) SAP BW
2 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) JIRA
2 4 (9.52%) Postman
3 1 (2.38%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.38%) JUnit
3 1 (2.38%) Selenium
3 1 (2.38%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.95%) Finance
3 7 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (11.90%) Back Office
6 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.14%) Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.38%) Digital Health
8 1 (2.38%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (2.38%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Analyst
2 16 (38.10%) Business Analyst
3 10 (23.81%) Product Owner
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
5 4 (9.52%) Digital Product Owner
5 4 (9.52%) Finance Business Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Financial Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Service Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Service Transition Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Test Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Transition Manager
6 3 (7.14%) Pensions Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Pensions Business Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Project Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Transformation Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Product Owner
7 2 (4.76%) Service Design Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (2.38%) .NET
2 1 (2.38%) ebXML
2 1 (2.38%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.38%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.38%) J2EE
2 1 (2.38%) JPA
2 1 (2.38%) JSON
2 1 (2.38%) REST
2 1 (2.38%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (2.38%) SOAP
2 1 (2.38%) Spring
2 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Derivative
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) HACMP
4 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.38%) Online Banking
4 1 (2.38%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Android
2 1 (2.38%) AIX
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) Agile
2 27 (64.29%) User Stories
3 16 (38.10%) Workshop Facilitation
4 15 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (33.33%) Product Backlog
6 10 (23.81%) Business Analysis
6 10 (23.81%) Business Case
6 10 (23.81%) DevOps
7 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (21.43%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (19.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (19.05%) Scrum
8 8 (19.05%) Sprint Planning
9 7 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
9 7 (16.67%) Product Requirements
9 7 (16.67%) Product Vision
10 6 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
10 6 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
10 6 (14.29%) Epics
10 6 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) SQL
2 3 (7.14%) Kotlin
3 2 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (2.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (2.38%) ISEB
2 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (4.76%) Guidewire
1 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.38%) Murex
2 1 (2.38%) Oracle
2 1 (2.38%) SAP