Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Middlesex

Acceptance Criteria
South East > Middlesex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Middlesex requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Middlesex 20.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £555 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
75th Percentile £565 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £494 £488
% change year-on-year +1.27% +1.28% -6.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Middlesex

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 Middlesex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15 6 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesex 100.00% 85.71% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 14
10th Percentile £463 £440 £263
25th Percentile £486 £500 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +33.22% -43.75%
75th Percentile £738 £750 -
90th Percentile - £810 £556
South East median daily rate £513 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +1.49% +1.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £19.73
25th Percentile - - £28.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £43.25
75th Percentile - - £58.81
90th Percentile - - £67.78
South East median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -37.78% -5.26%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesex

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Middlesex

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Middlesex

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesex 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
General
1 2 (66.67%) Marketing
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Product Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Product Vision
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Major Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) SIAM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow