Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 61 59
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 21 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.73% 0.66% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 0.81% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 5
10th Percentile £327 - -
25th Percentile £331 - £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -2.44% -4.65%
75th Percentile £358 - £519
90th Percentile £374 - £534
England median daily rate £475 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -10.47% -1.85% +6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £37.79 £70.00
% change year-on-year +45.56% -46.02% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 658 618 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.45% 81.32% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 410 532
10th Percentile £226 £263 £213
25th Percentile £333 £362 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £613
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 36 43
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.91 £18.86
Median hourly rate £18.87 £19.16 £31.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.51% -39.67% +61.51%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.19 £53.88
90th Percentile - £50.36 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +3 18 £350 -30.00% 1
Derbyshire - 1 - - 2
Leicestershire - 1 £425 -
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) CICS
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (9.52%) Loan IQ
1 2 (9.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.76%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) SaaS
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) DB2
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 3 (14.29%) Eclipse
1 3 (14.29%) Git
1 3 (14.29%) IntelliJ
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
1 3 (14.29%) Maven
1 3 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Product Owner
2 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 8 (38.10%) Business Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Digital Product Owner
3 4 (19.05%) ETL Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 3 (14.29%) Tester
5 2 (9.52%) Payments Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Payments Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Mainframe Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 3 (14.29%) VSAM
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
1 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
1 14 (66.67%) Scrum
2 13 (61.90%) User Stories
3 9 (42.86%) User Experience
4 8 (38.10%) Business Analysis
4 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 6 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 6 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (28.57%) DevOps
6 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (28.57%) Product Backlog
7 5 (23.81%) Backlog Management
7 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
7 5 (23.81%) Epics
7 5 (23.81%) Kanban
7 5 (23.81%) Microservices
7 5 (23.81%) Waterfall
8 4 (19.05%) Customer Experience
8 4 (19.05%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) COBOL
1 3 (14.29%) Java
1 3 (14.29%) JCL
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) PSD2
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Salesforce