Acceptance Criteria Contracts in London

Acceptance Criteria
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 202 223
Rank change year-on-year -26 +21 -10
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 125 210 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.99% 1.18% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.33% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 149 196
10th Percentile £409 £361 £413
25th Percentile £463 £425 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £601 £613
90th Percentile £738 £700 £654
England median daily rate £505 £505 £550
% change year-on-year - -8.18% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - - £55.50
25th Percentile £66.25 £31.71 £56.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £32.36 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.62% -49.45% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile - £56.10 £76.00
England median hourly rate £66.25 £32.36 £58.75
% change year-on-year +104.76% -44.93% +39.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,594 15,775 24,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.57% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,304 17,662
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 326 275
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.00 £18.63
25th Percentile £22.66 £20.00 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.77 £63.22
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.88 £77.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in London

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in London

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in London

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in London.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in London

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Central London +1 25 £513 +0.49% 4
South London +14 7 £650 +71.05%
East London +10 2 £567 +11.18%
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 21 (16.80%) Confluence
2 7 (5.60%) CMS
3 4 (3.20%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (2.40%) Drupal
5 2 (1.60%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 7 (5.60%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.80%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.80%) Sketch
3 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.80%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Endur
1 3 (2.40%) Shopify
2 2 (1.60%) MultiFonds
3 1 (0.80%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (0.80%) Aligne
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.80%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.40%) Azure
2 11 (8.80%) AWS
3 10 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.80%) SaaS
5 5 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.20%) GCP
6 4 (3.20%) OCI
7 3 (2.40%) BigCommerce
7 3 (2.40%) Datadog
8 2 (1.60%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.60%) GitHub
8 2 (1.60%) IaaS
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.60%) PaaS
8 2 (1.60%) Slack
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.80%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) DHCP
1 7 (5.60%) DNS
1 7 (5.60%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (4.80%) Wireless
3 5 (4.00%) Network Security
4 4 (3.20%) DOCSIS
4 4 (3.20%) LAN
4 4 (3.20%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.40%) Firewall
5 3 (2.40%) SD-WAN
5 3 (2.40%) VLAN
6 2 (1.60%) VPN
6 2 (1.60%) WAN
7 1 (0.80%) 802.11
7 1 (0.80%) Intranet
7 1 (0.80%) MQTT
7 1 (0.80%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.80%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.40%) Big Data
2 3 (2.40%) InfluxDB
2 3 (2.40%) Looker
2 3 (2.40%) Power BI
3 2 (1.60%) GIS
3 2 (1.60%) Impala
3 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.60%) Redis
4 1 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.80%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.80%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.80%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (22.40%) JIRA
2 11 (8.80%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.00%) Postman
4 8 (6.40%) Git
5 4 (3.20%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.20%) Selenium
6 3 (2.40%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.40%) Gatling
6 3 (2.40%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.40%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.60%) JMeter
7 2 (1.60%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.60%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.60%) TestCafe
7 2 (1.60%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.80%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.80%) JUnit
8 1 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.80%) TestComplete
General
1 61 (48.80%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.40%) Finance
3 19 (15.20%) Presentation Skills
4 14 (11.20%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (11.20%) Banking
5 13 (10.40%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.80%) Back Office
7 6 (4.80%) Marketing
7 6 (4.80%) Retail
8 5 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.40%) Legal
9 3 (2.40%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.60%) Advertising
10 2 (1.60%) Front Office
10 2 (1.60%) Local Government
11 1 (0.80%) Electronics
11 1 (0.80%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (48.00%) Analyst
2 48 (38.40%) Business Analyst
3 20 (16.00%) Senior
4 15 (12.00%) Product Owner
5 8 (6.40%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (5.60%) Consultant
6 7 (5.60%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.60%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (5.60%) Senior Product Owner
7 6 (4.80%) Data Analyst
7 6 (4.80%) Developer
7 6 (4.80%) Digital Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Agile Business Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Architect
8 5 (4.00%) Functional Consultant
8 5 (4.00%) Project Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
8 5 (4.00%) Tester
9 4 (3.20%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (2.40%) pytest
2 3 (2.40%) RESTful
2 3 (2.40%) VML
3 2 (1.60%) ADO
3 2 (1.60%) FastAPI
3 2 (1.60%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.60%) React
4 1 (0.80%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.80%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.80%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.80%) Kafka
4 1 (0.80%) Pandas
4 1 (0.80%) REST
4 1 (0.80%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.80%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.80%) SOAP
4 1 (0.80%) Web Services
4 1 (0.80%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.80%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.60%) PMI
3 6 (4.80%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.20%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.40%) CMDB
6 3 (2.40%) IoT
6 3 (2.40%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.60%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.80%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.80%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.40%) Linux
2 3 (2.40%) Windows
3 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.60%) Rocky
3 2 (1.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (73.60%) Agile
2 62 (49.60%) User Stories
3 34 (27.20%) Business Analysis
4 27 (21.60%) Scrum
5 26 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (18.40%) Analytics
7 23 (18.40%) DevOps
7 23 (18.40%) Sprint Planning
8 21 (16.80%) User Acceptance Testing
9 18 (14.40%) Requirements Gathering
9 18 (14.40%) Workshop Facilitation
10 17 (13.60%) CI/CD
10 17 (13.60%) Roadmaps
10 17 (13.60%) Sprint Retrospective
10 17 (13.60%) Test Automation
11 15 (12.00%) Backlog Refinement
11 15 (12.00%) Product Backlog
11 15 (12.00%) User Experience
12 14 (11.20%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.00%) Java
1 10 (8.00%) Python
2 5 (4.00%) SQL
3 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.40%) C
4 3 (2.40%) C++
4 3 (2.40%) Go
4 3 (2.40%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.60%) RPG
6 1 (0.80%) C#
6 1 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (10.40%) Degree
1 13 (10.40%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.20%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.40%) PMI Certification
4 6 (4.80%) CBAP
5 4 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.20%) CSPO
6 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.40%) IIBA
7 2 (1.60%) CWNA
8 1 (0.80%) CCNP
8 1 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.80%) CWDP
8 1 (0.80%) ISEB
8 1 (0.80%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.60%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.80%) COPPA
4 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.20%) Ansible
2 3 (2.40%) Grafana
3 2 (1.60%) SCCM
3 2 (1.60%) Terraform
4 1 (0.80%) Kibana
4 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.40%) Salesforce
3 7 (5.60%) Oracle
4 5 (4.00%) SAP
4 5 (4.00%) Splunk
5 4 (3.20%) Adobe
5 4 (3.20%) Cisco
5 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.20%) Sitecore
6 3 (2.40%) Ekahau
7 2 (1.60%) Citrix
7 2 (1.60%) Databricks
7 2 (1.60%) Meraki
8 1 (0.80%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.80%) Informatica
8 1 (0.80%) Juniper
8 1 (0.80%) Murex
8 1 (0.80%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.80%) Temenos
8 1 (0.80%) Trayport