Operational Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the South West

Operational Acceptance Criteria
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Operational Acceptance Criteria skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Operational Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £567 - -
25th Percentile £573 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 - -
75th Percentile £611 - -
90th Percentile £616 - -
England median daily rate £594 £538 £496
% change year-on-year +10.47% +8.31% +32.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Operational 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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,705 2,333 2,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.50% 83.68% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 1,494 2,058
10th Percentile £220 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +2.48%
75th Percentile £620 £631 £650
90th Percentile £695 £700 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 285 242
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.50 £19.32
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% - +25.73%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £75.87
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% +2.63% +58.11%

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Operational Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Operational Acceptance Criteria in the South West

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Operational Acceptance Criteria in the South West

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria within the South West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire - 2 £594 - 1
Operational Acceptance Criteria
England

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Services Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Service Transition Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) STB
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow