Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Acceptance Criteria
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 4.92% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £308 - -
25th Percentile £312 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £334 - -
75th Percentile £380 - -
90th Percentile £438 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £334 - £513
% change year-on-year - - +60.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 229 101 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 93.85% 97.12% 96.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 84 69
10th Percentile £311 £313 £219
25th Percentile £359 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £400 £481
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% -16.84% +17.32%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £530
90th Percentile £550 £624 £543
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £414 £453
% change year-on-year +1.45% -8.61% +10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.68%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £35.75
Northamptonshire median hourly rate - £24.20 £17.29
% change year-on-year - +40.01% -7.81%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Northampton

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (16.67%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (8.33%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Network Security
1 3 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JMeter
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
3 2 (16.67%) ETL Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) OAuth
1 3 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (25.00%) OpenID
1 3 (25.00%) SAML
2 1 (8.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
1 8 (66.67%) Scrum
1 8 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (58.33%) User Stories
3 5 (41.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 5 (41.67%) Epics
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Sprint Planning
3 5 (41.67%) Sprint Retrospective
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Key Management
5 3 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 3 (25.00%) Red Team
5 3 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (25.00%) SBOM
5 3 (25.00%) Secrets Management
5 3 (25.00%) SOAR
5 3 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 3 (25.00%) GRC
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (25.00%) NIST
2 3 (25.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (8.33%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (16.67%) Salesforce