Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Acceptance Criteria
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 72 73
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 5 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.65% 0.27% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.30% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 6
10th Percentile £379 £443 £392
25th Percentile £384 £469 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.52% +16.72% -20.00%
75th Percentile £620 £569 £500
90th Percentile £698 £588 £544
Scotland median daily rate £496 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +11.39% -10.90% +8.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 667 659 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.85% 89.30% 90.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 427 533
10th Percentile £300 £301 £350
25th Percentile £381 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £441 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -11.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £542 £550 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +3.06% -9.09% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 15
10th Percentile £15.16 £16.75 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.84 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £24.98 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +27.51% +10.55% -40.38%
75th Percentile £33.52 £26.86 £19.22
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £45.30
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £21.44
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.30% +15.86%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Glasgow

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Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Acceptance Criteria

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Finance Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Control Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Control Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Release Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) CMDB
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) EAM
4 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) IIBA
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow