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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 35 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 -11 +13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 18 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 5.96% 1.09% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 1.22% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 5
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £331 - £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -2.44% -18.00%
75th Percentile £358 - £519
90th Percentile £360 - £534
East Midlands median daily rate £350 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -30.00% -2.44% -4.65%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 246 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 94.37% 89.78% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 188 127
10th Percentile £268 £354 £198
25th Percentile £343 £380 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -6.32% +2.15%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £565
90th Percentile £525 £620 £614
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -8.89% -10.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 13
10th Percentile - £25.41 £12.37
25th Percentile - £28.88 £31.76
Median hourly rate £21.39 £36.34 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.14% -28.75% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £44.36 £51.50
90th Percentile £41.56 £48.17 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £19.16 £31.76
% change year-on-year -1.51% -39.67% +61.51%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Northamptonshire

Acceptance Criteria
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northampton - 16 £351 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) CICS
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (11.11%) Loan IQ
1 2 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) SaaS
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) DB2
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) IntelliJ
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (16.67%) Maven
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Product Owner
2 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Business Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Digital Product Owner
3 4 (22.22%) ETL Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Automation Tester
4 3 (16.67%) Tester
5 2 (11.11%) Payments Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Payments Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Tester
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 3 (16.67%) VSAM
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
1 13 (72.22%) Scrum
2 11 (61.11%) User Stories
3 8 (44.44%) Business Analysis
3 8 (44.44%) User Experience
4 7 (38.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 6 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (27.78%) Decision-Making
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Epics
6 5 (27.78%) Kanban
6 5 (27.78%) Microservices
6 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (27.78%) Product Backlog
6 5 (27.78%) Waterfall
7 4 (22.22%) Backlog Management
7 4 (22.22%) Customer Experience
7 4 (22.22%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) COBOL
1 3 (16.67%) Java
1 3 (16.67%) JCL
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.56%) PSD2
1 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce