Operational Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in London

Operational Acceptance Criteria
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Operational Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.044% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile £577 - -
England median daily rate £525 £594 £538
% change year-on-year -11.58% +10.47% +10.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Operational 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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Operational Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in London

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Operational Acceptance Criteria

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria in London over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Operational Acceptance Criteria in London

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Service Manager
2 6 (66.67%) Service Transition Manager
2 6 (66.67%) Transition Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Service Management
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Risk Management
3 7 (77.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (66.67%) ITSM
4 6 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (22.22%) ITIL
5 2 (22.22%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) Change Management
6 1 (11.11%) Chaos Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Cyber Resilience
6 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
6 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Release Management
6 1 (11.11%) Runbook
6 1 (11.11%) Scrum
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 1 (11.11%) New Relic
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk