Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Acceptance Criteria
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 34 31 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 -7
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 1.23% 0.41% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 0.48% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £416 - £419
25th Percentile £418 £466 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £477 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +0.42% +2.70%
75th Percentile £468 £489 £489
90th Percentile £472 - £493
North East median daily rate £440 £477 £475
% change year-on-year -7.76% +0.42% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 203 208 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.20% 85.60% 93.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 98 255
10th Percentile £213 £297 £319
25th Percentile £350 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -11.50% +13.00%
75th Percentile £566 £589 £650
90th Percentile £626 £650 £736
North East median daily rate £470 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 36 0
10th Percentile - £11.50 -
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 -
North East median hourly rate £14.07 £15.46 £40.75
% change year-on-year -8.99% -62.06% +146.97%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Tyne and Wear

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Tyne and Wear

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -7 3 £440 -7.76% 12
Acceptance Criteria
North East

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Market Research
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Product Management
2 2 (66.67%) Product Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Product Vision
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) User Research
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG