Operational Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Operational 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 Operational Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 - 135
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.055% - 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £720 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 - -
75th Percentile £760 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £740 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Operational 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 1,650 1,897 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.76% 92.04% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,158 1,637
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £788 £804
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £43.33 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Operational Acceptance Criteria relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Operational Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in the City of London

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Operational Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Operational Acceptance Criteria

Operational 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Protective Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk