Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Hertfordshire

Acceptance Criteria
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 66 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 10 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.20% 0.99% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.14% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile - £498 £445
25th Percentile £363 £531 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -36.17% +17.50% -
75th Percentile £388 £728 £606
90th Percentile £486 £891 £655
East of England median daily rate £375 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 755 703 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.31% 86.68% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 374 407
10th Percentile £225 £240 £190
25th Percentile £315 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £701 £768 £688
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 156 81
10th Percentile £38.12 £21.00 £21.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.69 £39.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.85
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +27.83% +13.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -13.58%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Hertfordshire

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Hertfordshire

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Hertfordshire

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Watford +12 8 £375 -25.00%
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £575 -
Acceptance Criteria
East of England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
General
1 6 (60.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Lead
1 8 (80.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (10.00%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Transition Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Scenario Testing
1 8 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 8 (80.00%) Test Management
1 8 (80.00%) Test Planning
1 8 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 1 (10.00%) Change Management
2 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) QA