Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Hampshire

Acceptance Criteria
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 89 69
Rank change year-on-year +30 -20 +8
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 13 9 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.74% 0.56% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.67% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 25
10th Percentile £340 £463 £465
25th Percentile £375 £472 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £544 £567
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -4.10% +19.37%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £628
90th Percentile - - £665
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 670 1,350 1,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.81% 83.64% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 718 790
10th Percentile £325 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £460 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +11.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £675 £623
90th Percentile £675 £739 £694
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 163 104
10th Percentile £20.12 £13.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £25.68 £22.85
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +8.21% +113.80%
75th Percentile £71.25 £63.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.63
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Hampshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Hampshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Hampshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Hampshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Hampshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Farnborough - 7 £475 - 1
Portsmouth - 3 £444 -
Basingstoke - 1 £450 - 1
Acceptance Criteria
South East

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (23.08%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
5 1 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Data Business Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Test Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Coordinator
3 2 (15.38%) QA Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (7.69%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Product Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.69%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
2 6 (46.15%) User Stories
3 3 (23.08%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) BDD
3 3 (23.08%) Business Process Modelling
3 3 (23.08%) Exploratory Testing
3 3 (23.08%) GAP Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Lean Software Development
3 3 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Performance Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Project Management
3 3 (23.08%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Security Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (23.08%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (23.08%) Sprint Review
3 3 (23.08%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) ISTQB
4 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Palantir
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft