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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 93 85
Rank change year-on-year +29 -8 -21
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 11 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.16% 0.52% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.64% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 10
10th Percentile £324 £445 £548
25th Percentile £375 £519 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £548 £604
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% -9.35% +20.80%
75th Percentile £488 £563 £628
90th Percentile £494 £585 £653
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £515
% change year-on-year +5.56% -12.62% +9.57%

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 816 1,247 1,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.80% 81.45% 87.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 748 643
10th Percentile £325 £363 £261
25th Percentile £463 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +10.48% +0.96%
75th Percentile £613 £652 £613
90th Percentile £665 £738 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 129 110
10th Percentile £18.87 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.44 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +9.24% +61.54%
75th Percentile £58.75 £73.75 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £21.58 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.38% +14.70% +113.77%

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

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Hampshire over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Hampshire

Acceptance Criteria
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

Acceptance Criteria
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 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Farnborough - 4 £444 -
Portsmouth - 3 £444 - 1
Southampton - 1 - - 3
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 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 1 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Business Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Data Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Data Business Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Coordinator
3 2 (18.18%) QA Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Product Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ONNX
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) User Stories
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Agile Project Management
4 3 (27.27%) Business Process Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) Exploratory Testing
4 3 (27.27%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Lean Software Development
4 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Project Management
4 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (27.27%) Sprint Review
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) User Research
4 3 (27.27%) Validation
4 3 (27.27%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) DV Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (9.09%) OCP
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Cilium
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Rsyslog
1 1 (9.09%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Palantir
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) NVIDIA