Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Surrey

Acceptance Criteria
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 35 42 63
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +11
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 4 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.34% 2.39% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 2.89% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 5
10th Percentile - £300 -
25th Percentile - £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £519 £540
90th Percentile - £550 £591
South East median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
South East median hourly rate - £23.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - -53.00% -12.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Surrey

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Surrey

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Surrey

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Reigate - 3 - -
Guildford - 1 - - 9
Acceptance Criteria
South East

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Balsamiq
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) Mocha
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Insurtech
2 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Epics
3 2 (50.00%) Product Management
3 2 (50.00%) Product Requirements
3 2 (50.00%) Product Vision
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA