Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Acceptance Criteria
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 2.33% - 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% - 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £450
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate £700 - £450

All Process and Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36 41 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 83.72% 82.00% 97.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 50
10th Percentile £350 £300 £248
25th Percentile £419 £347 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -13.16% -20.83%
75th Percentile £550 £506 £647
90th Percentile £580 £610 £745
Suffolk median daily rate £438 £438 £475
% change year-on-year - -7.89% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £15.84 - £16.23
25th Percentile £16.36 - £20.31
Median hourly rate £17.46 £70.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -75.06% +152.25% +73.44%
75th Percentile £18.32 - £35.31
90th Percentile £18.68 - £39.48
Suffolk median hourly rate £23.75 £61.25 £41.50
% change year-on-year -61.22% +47.59% +159.38%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared