Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Knutsford

Acceptance Criteria
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 3.47% 1.77% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 1.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £345 £418 -
25th Percentile £352 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £444 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% - -
75th Percentile £530 £457 -
90th Percentile £589 £460 -
Cheshire median daily rate £505 £444 -
% change year-on-year +13.74% - -

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 170 103 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 98.27% 91.15% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 95 107
10th Percentile £337 £353 £407
25th Percentile £358 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £489 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -11.09% +18.53%
75th Percentile £492 £606 £606
90th Percentile £537 £669 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £492 £490
% change year-on-year -9.10% +0.36% +7.46%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Knutsford

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Knutsford

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Knutsford over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Knutsford

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 1 (16.67%) CICS
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (50.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Change Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Change Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 3 (50.00%) Matrix Management
1 3 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 3 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Feasibility Study
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) COBOL
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JCL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle