Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Edinburgh

Acceptance Criteria
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Acceptance Criteria skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 100 104
Rank change year-on-year +35 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 9 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.10% 0.77% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.81% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 19
10th Percentile £404 £375 £350
25th Percentile £410 £403 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £438 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +2.94% +0.59%
75th Percentile £484 £506 £456
90th Percentile £529 £531 £495
Scotland median daily rate £463 £488 £445
% change year-on-year -5.13% +9.55% +8.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Acceptance Criteria is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 718 1,231 1,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.99% 95.20% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 879 1,251
10th Percentile £235 £260 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £559
90th Percentile £670 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 19
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.07 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.13
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -35.58% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile - £64.90 £53.86
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Edinburgh

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Edinburgh

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
1 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Equities
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 6 (66.67%) User Stories
2 6 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 4 (44.44%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 3 (33.33%) Prototyping
4 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Service Design
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Use Case
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
5 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Management
5 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) ISEB
2 2 (22.22%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (11.11%) IIBA
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Google