Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Acceptance Criteria
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 2.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £350 - £513
% change year-on-year - - -18.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 114 131 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 82.61% 77.51% 84.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 58 84
10th Percentile £140 £235 £161
25th Percentile £313 £322 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.04%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £625
90th Percentile £775 £640 £664
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £445 £480
% change year-on-year -6.74% -7.29% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 15
10th Percentile £15.66 - £16.24
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.08 £24.18 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +20.90% +29.03%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - - £54.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -18.84% +4.38% +31.03%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 24 October 2025. 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
Derby - 3 £467 - 1
Acceptance Criteria
East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing Execution System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) PLM
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation