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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 54 69
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 18 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 5.33% 0.69% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.64% 0.82% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £431
25th Percentile - - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £513
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -41.46% -4.65%
75th Percentile - £350 £541
90th Percentile - £380 £547
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +5.56% -13.46% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £45.26 £60.00
% change year-on-year +21.52% -24.57% -6.43%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 319 490 659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.38% 84.78% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 356 531
10th Percentile £204 £203 £208
25th Percentile £275 £304 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -13.10% -
75th Percentile £550 £563 £650
90th Percentile £600 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £517 £518
% change year-on-year -3.34% -0.22% +3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 49 20
10th Percentile £20.55 £11.71 £16.29
25th Percentile £28.00 £18.35 £32.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £71.90 £61.63
90th Percentile £59.50 £76.86 £68.50
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%

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

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Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
DemandTrendContract 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 27 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Epsom - 1 £500 -
Guildford - 1 - - 2
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 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Toad
1 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Automotive
2 1 (5.56%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (88.89%) Developer
2 1 (5.56%) Analyst
2 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
2 1 (5.56%) Applications Tester
2 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
2 1 (5.56%) Senior
2 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (5.56%) Software Tester
2 1 (5.56%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Agile
2 16 (88.89%) CAFM
2 16 (88.89%) Scrum
2 16 (88.89%) TDD
2 16 (88.89%) Test Strategy
3 15 (83.33%) Data Integration
3 15 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 15 (83.33%) Workflow
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Time Management
5 1 (5.56%) Backlog Management
5 1 (5.56%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.56%) Epics
5 1 (5.56%) Facilities Management
5 1 (5.56%) Functional Testing
5 1 (5.56%) Software Testing
5 1 (5.56%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (5.56%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) SQL
2 15 (83.33%) VB
3 1 (5.56%) Korn
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft