Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Acceptance Criteria
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 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 52 45 72
Rank change year-on-year -7 +27 -4
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 6 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.01% 0.66% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.78% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £426 £316 £569
25th Percentile £466 £331 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £363 £613
Median % change year-on-year +48.28% -40.82% +2.08%
75th Percentile £616 £378 £653
90th Percentile £659 £384 £666
East of England median daily rate £535 £375 £513
% change year-on-year +42.67% -26.83% +3.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 527 385 657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 88.42% 84.25% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 155 363
10th Percentile £192 £263 £275
25th Percentile £400 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £675
90th Percentile £723 £658 £775
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 94 156
10th Percentile £16.52 £15.22 £21.63
25th Percentile £18.50 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.75 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.46
% change year-on-year -24.11% +28.94% -4.62%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

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 27 November 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
Stevenage - 4 - - 1
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £400 -
Acceptance Criteria
East of England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (66.67%) Simulink
1 4 (66.67%) Windchill
2 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) SAP PLM
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (66.67%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 4 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) RF Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Synthetic Data
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (66.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) PLM
1 4 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Product Vision
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) Conversational UI
3 1 (16.67%) Data Science
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) MATLAB
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) SAP