Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the West Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 105 92
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 +13
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 8 5 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.26% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.31% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 22
10th Percentile £356 £378 £407
25th Percentile £423 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -20.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £483 £456 £600
90th Percentile £493 £468 £686
England median daily rate £505 £505 £550
% change year-on-year - -8.18% +8.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,189 1,632 2,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.34% 83.95% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 783 1,084 1,439
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £378 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 114 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.13 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £24.61 £40.38 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £58.00 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the West Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the West Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the West Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
Birmingham +16 5 £460 +0.82% 9
Shropshire - 3 £502 -
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (25.00%) Open Workbench
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Engagement Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Project Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) QA Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Gherkin
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (37.50%) Business Case
3 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) Commercial Awareness
3 3 (37.50%) Conflict Management
3 3 (37.50%) Line Management
3 3 (37.50%) Matrix Organization
3 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Project Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Resource Management
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft