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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 78 125
Rank change year-on-year -7 +47 +25
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 37 42 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.02% 2.04% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.22% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 23
10th Percentile £450 £375 £363
25th Percentile £494 £436 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £588 £453
Median % change year-on-year +1.70% +29.83% -15.02%
75th Percentile £731 £675 £575
90th Percentile £800 £725 £643
Central London median daily rate £598 £571 £453
% change year-on-year +4.60% +26.24% -11.75%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,730 1,890 2,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.23% 91.88% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,254 1,990
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 15
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.15 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £50.25 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £28.79 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.49% -23.49% -17.65%

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
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 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the City of London

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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 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 7 (18.92%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) HFM
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.70%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.70%) Asana
4 1 (2.70%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub
4 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Star Schema
2 2 (5.41%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.70%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.70%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Postman
2 2 (5.41%) Selenium
3 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.70%) Gatling
3 1 (2.70%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Hamcrest
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) JUnit
3 1 (2.70%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Presentation Skills
3 11 (29.73%) Finance
4 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.51%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (13.51%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (10.81%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Back Office
7 1 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Front Office
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (72.97%) Business Analyst
2 25 (67.57%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Technical Business Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Digital Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Digital Business Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Digital Product Manager
5 3 (8.11%) IT Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Product Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Digital Product Owner
6 2 (5.41%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Product Owner
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) ADO
2 1 (2.70%) Pandas
2 1 (2.70%) PySpark
2 1 (2.70%) pytest
2 1 (2.70%) REST
2 1 (2.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.70%) CMDB
3 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) IVR
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (83.78%) Agile
2 28 (75.68%) User Stories
3 18 (48.65%) User Acceptance Testing
4 14 (37.84%) Business Analysis
5 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (24.32%) Product Backlog
6 9 (24.32%) Workshop Facilitation
7 8 (21.62%) Backlog Management
7 8 (21.62%) Backlog Refinement
7 8 (21.62%) DevOps
8 7 (18.92%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 7 (18.92%) Business Case
8 7 (18.92%) Data Analysis
8 7 (18.92%) Sprint Review
9 6 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (16.22%) Epics
9 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
9 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
9 6 (16.22%) Scrum
9 6 (16.22%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.41%) Python
1 2 (5.41%) SQL
2 1 (2.70%) C#
2 1 (2.70%) Java
2 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) CBAP
3 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle
3 1 (2.70%) Citrix
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.70%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.70%) Informatica
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.70%) Murex
3 1 (2.70%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) Splunk
3 1 (2.70%) Tagetik
3 1 (2.70%) Workday