Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Reading

Acceptance Criteria
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 89 82
Rank change year-on-year +34 -7 -12
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 7 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.20% 0.55% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.63% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £400 - £470
25th Percentile £458 £422 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £444 £520
Median % change year-on-year +14.15% -14.71% +4.63%
75th Percentile £538 £465 £559
90th Percentile £544 - £576
Berkshire median daily rate £506 £425 £520
% change year-on-year +19.12% -18.27% -15.10%

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 533 950 979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.27% 87.08% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 520 660
10th Percentile £333 £349 £263
25th Percentile £450 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 16
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.50 £52.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £34.38 £60.47
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.60 £64.31
Median % change year-on-year -38.48% -5.77% +21.34%
75th Percentile £58.00 £64.07 £74.20
90th Percentile £68.75 £84.94 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £60.46 £61.79
% change year-on-year -38.33% -2.16% +22.36%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Reading

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Reading over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Reading

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (14.29%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) User Stories
2 3 (42.86%) Backlog Refinement
2 3 (42.86%) Product Backlog
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
2 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Review
4 1 (14.29%) B2B
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Migration
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Service Design
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Magik
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
1 1 (14.29%) HubSpot
1 1 (14.29%) Juniper
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) Virgin Media
1 1 (14.29%) Workday