Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the East of England

Acceptance Criteria
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 102 110
Rank change year-on-year +29 +8 +14
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 3 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% 0.63% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.73% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 14
10th Percentile £311 - £314
25th Percentile £317 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £342 £406 £545
90th Percentile £347 £475 £638
England median daily rate £505 £505 £550
% change year-on-year - -8.18% +8.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 838 1,647 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.15% 86.01% 87.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 703 1,050
10th Percentile £225 £209 £204
25th Percentile £400 £332 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 611 338
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £71.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the East of England

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the East of England

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the East of England

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Bedfordshire +4 2 £350 - 1
Hertfordshire +16 1 £313 -16.67% 5
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) OAT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) OAT Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Storyboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) User Stories
1 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
1 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CSPO
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft