Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Acceptance Criteria
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.17% - 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% - 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £540
Central London median daily rate £550 £598 £600
% change year-on-year -7.95% -0.42% +26.65%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67 40 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 93.06% 85.11% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 29
10th Percentile £405 £368 £448
25th Percentile £500 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £662 £647 £693
90th Percentile £763 £800 £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £52.93 - -
25th Percentile £55.06 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile £81.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 9 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
Paddington - 2 - -
Westminster - 1 £550 - 3
Acceptance Criteria
Central London

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
1 1 (33.33%) UAT Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Planning and Forecasting
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Qualitative Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Anaplan