Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Northamptonshire

Acceptance Criteria
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 28 31
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.70% 0.96% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 1.06% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile - - £310
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £357 £500 £370
Median % change year-on-year -28.60% +35.14% -17.78%
75th Percentile £358 - -
90th Percentile - - £568
East Midlands median daily rate £357 £500 £370
% change year-on-year -28.60% +35.14% -15.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 136 188 216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.89% 89.95% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 140 166
10th Percentile £269 £302 £189
25th Percentile £356 £356 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £425 £381
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +11.48% -16.21%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £581
East Midlands median daily rate £445 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +8.48% -8.89% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 16
10th Percentile £15.28 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £17.57 - £18.13
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -66.27% +50.91%
75th Percentile £38.20 £50.71 £51.50
90th Percentile £48.28 £53.90 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.64 £17.00 £18.37
% change year-on-year +9.63% -7.43% -0.73%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Northamptonshire

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Northamptonshire

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Northampton - 4 £357 -
Acceptance Criteria
East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Digital Product Owner
1 3 (75.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (75.00%) Business Process Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Product Management
2 3 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 3 (75.00%) User Stories
2 3 (75.00%) UX Design
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree