Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Acceptance Criteria
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 1.02% 2.16% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 2.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £355 - £513
% change year-on-year - - -2.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 156 112 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 79.59% 80.58% 80.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 58 102
10th Percentile £172 £301 £307
25th Percentile £213 £409 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £471
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +6.10% -14.32%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £650
90th Percentile £706 £600 £744
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 4 7
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.79 £9.08
25th Percentile £16.15 £14.99 £10.76
Median hourly rate £16.35 £23.80 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +58.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £17.87 £54.56 £20.39
90th Percentile - £92.03 £48.72
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £20.51
% change year-on-year -20.24% +9.70% +21.87%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Nottingham -8 2 £525 - 5
Acceptance Criteria
East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Trainer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Learning Management System
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CSPO
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce