Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in South London

Acceptance Criteria
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 38
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 8 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.56% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 0.68% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £380
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.62%
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile £680 - -
London median daily rate £500 £541 £532
% change year-on-year -7.54% +1.75% -6.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 148 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 84.29% 87.06% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 89 147
10th Percentile £358 £315 £323
25th Percentile £456 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £567
90th Percentile £684 £787 £630
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 16
10th Percentile £16.70 - £17.00
25th Percentile £21.00 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £58.94 £15.84 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +272.06% -32.60% -53.39%
75th Percentile £65.25 £20.38 £77.19
90th Percentile £67.70 £73.96 £83.75
London median hourly rate £37.25 £32.25 £28.00
% change year-on-year +15.50% +15.18% -29.34%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in South London

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in South London over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in South London

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Croydon -10 5 £350 - 1
Bromley - 3 £550 -
Acceptance Criteria
London

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Postman
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
3 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Local Government
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AML Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) OAT Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Strategy Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
1 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) User Stories
2 3 (37.50%) Validation
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 2 (25.00%) API Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
3 2 (25.00%) Release Management
3 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) ISO 20022
2 1 (12.50%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible