Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the West Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Acceptance Criteria skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 104 104
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 5 38 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 1.58% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.79% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 21 52
10th Percentile £378 £375 £343
25th Percentile £419 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.95% +28.97%
75th Percentile £456 £600 £597
90th Percentile £468 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -7.27% +8.91% +6.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Acceptance Criteria is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,621 2,126 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.95% 88.55% 89.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,460 2,360
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £484
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +5.43% +16.75%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £575
90th Percentile £738 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 46 72
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.70
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.62 £19.59
90th Percentile £57.75 £50.63 £21.85
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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

Acceptance Criteria
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
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 25 April 2024. 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 -7 2 £456 -23.96% 3
Coventry - 2 £450 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
1 1 (20.00%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Appium
1 2 (40.00%) UI Automator
1 2 (40.00%) XCUITest
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (60.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Logistics
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
1 2 (40.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Ariba
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow