Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Reading

Acceptance Criteria
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 79 72
Rank change year-on-year +26 -7 -11
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 7 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.17% 1.01% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.12% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 12
10th Percentile £498 - £429
25th Percentile £531 £563 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.65% +14.44%
75th Percentile - £625 £541
90th Percentile - £648 £550
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Reading

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Reading

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) Transformation Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) Blazor
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Learning Management System
2 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) User Stories
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Refinement
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (14.29%) Kanban
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
4 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Virgin Media
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle