Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in East London

Acceptance Criteria
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 +12
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 3 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in East London 2.97% 0.87% 6.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 0.92% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 11
10th Percentile £414 - £320
25th Percentile £464 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £562 £594 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +20.00% -1.00%
75th Percentile £658 - £540
90th Percentile £706 - £553
London median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 93 109 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 92.08% 94.78% 98.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 91 139
10th Percentile £208 £190 £300
25th Percentile £397 £313 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £747 £585 £586
90th Percentile £788 £675 £652
London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £18.19 £23.33 £21.11
25th Percentile £21.11 £23.79 £21.13
Median hourly rate £24.43 £28.58 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year -14.52% +31.11% +21.83%
75th Percentile £26.44 £54.88 £23.09
90th Percentile £28.00 £84.82 £23.48
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in East London

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in East London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in East London over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in East London

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in East London

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 East London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Tower Hamlets +4 1 £400 -32.74%
Acceptance Criteria
London

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA