Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Acceptance Criteria
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 27 33
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 2.78% 1.22% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 1.35% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £380
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £650 - -
South London median daily rate £450 - £380
% change year-on-year - - -27.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 74 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 87.78% 90.24% 95.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 53 81
10th Percentile £452 £425 £377
25th Percentile £492 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -3.41% -5.09%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £575
90th Percentile £703 £700 £630
South London median daily rate £513 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - £30.23
South London median hourly rate £58.94 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +272.06% -32.60% -53.39%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Croydon

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Croydon over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Croydon

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) OAT Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
4 1 (20.00%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA