Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Acceptance Criteria
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 4 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 1.76% 4.88% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 5.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £266 £353 -
25th Percentile £267 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £428 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.92% - -
75th Percentile £328 £530 -
90th Percentile £424 £611 -
Cheshire median daily rate £270 £503 -
% change year-on-year -46.27% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 221 118 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.36% 95.93% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 97 62
10th Percentile £307 £346 £450
25th Percentile £358 £356 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.94% -23.81% +12.54%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £582
90th Percentile £579 £638 £587
Cheshire median daily rate £445 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £24.18 £23.61
% change year-on-year -5.50% +2.41% +54.82%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Knutsford over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Knutsford

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) TestRail
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
1 3 (75.00%) UAT Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow