Acceptance Criteria Contracts with Work from Home Options

Acceptance Criteria
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 209 210
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 +67
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 157 308 583
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 1.19% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.33% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 240 402
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £443 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +9.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £570
90th Percentile £625 £612 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.75 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £23.50 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.13% -4.17% +103.53%
75th Percentile £24.25 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - £61.95
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £58.75 £53.00
% change year-on-year -44.93% +10.85% +82.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,483 23,229 40,650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,996 16,418 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Acceptance Criteria
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Acceptance Criteria trend for jobs with a WFH option

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Acceptance Criteria.

Acceptance Criteria daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Acceptance Criteria daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Acceptance Criteria
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Acceptance Criteria.

Acceptance Criteria hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 20 (12.74%) Confluence
2 3 (1.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (1.91%) ArcGIS
2 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.64%) LiveLink
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 6 (3.82%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (2.55%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (1.91%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (1.27%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.64%) Aligne
6 1 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.64%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.64%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.64%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.83%) Azure
2 17 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (8.28%) AWS
4 10 (6.37%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (5.10%) Power Automate
6 4 (2.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 3 (1.91%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (1.91%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.91%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.27%) PaaS
8 2 (1.27%) SaaS
8 2 (1.27%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.64%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.64%) dbt
9 1 (0.64%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.64%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.64%) Miro
9 1 (0.64%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.64%) GSM
1 1 (0.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.46%) Power BI
2 5 (3.18%) Data Lake
3 4 (2.55%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.91%) GIS
5 2 (1.27%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.27%) Tableau
6 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.64%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.64%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.64%) EDRMS
6 1 (0.64%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.64%) Redis
6 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (14.01%) JIRA
2 11 (7.01%) JMeter
3 9 (5.73%) Selenium
4 3 (1.91%) Appium
4 3 (1.91%) LoadRunner
4 3 (1.91%) Postman
5 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.27%) Git
5 2 (1.27%) UI Automator
5 2 (1.27%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.64%) Gatling
6 1 (0.64%) Mockito
6 1 (0.64%) Rational Performance Tester
6 1 (0.64%) ScalaTest
6 1 (0.64%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.64%) WebDriver
General
1 52 (33.12%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (14.01%) Finance
4 20 (12.74%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.82%) Retail
7 5 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.18%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.55%) Back Office
8 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.91%) Banking
10 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.27%) Legal
11 1 (0.64%) Automotive
11 1 (0.64%) Billing
11 1 (0.64%) Games
11 1 (0.64%) German Language
11 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (48.41%) Analyst
2 56 (35.67%) Business Analyst
3 30 (19.11%) Senior
4 13 (8.28%) Consultant
4 13 (8.28%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (6.37%) Product Owner
5 10 (6.37%) Service Manager
6 9 (5.73%) Service Transition Manager
6 9 (5.73%) Transition Manager
7 7 (4.46%) Agile Business Analyst
7 7 (4.46%) Developer
7 7 (4.46%) Digital Analyst
7 7 (4.46%) Digital Business Analyst
7 7 (4.46%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.46%) Senior Business Analyst
7 7 (4.46%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (3.82%) Architect
8 6 (3.82%) Data Analyst
8 6 (3.82%) Functional Consultant
9 5 (3.18%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.82%) REST
2 5 (3.18%) OpenAPI
2 5 (3.18%) Swagger
3 3 (1.91%) HTML
3 3 (1.91%) JSON
3 3 (1.91%) RESTful
3 3 (1.91%) XML
4 2 (1.27%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.27%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.64%) Akka
5 1 (0.64%) Express.js
5 1 (0.64%) JPA
5 1 (0.64%) Kafka
5 1 (0.64%) Play Framework
5 1 (0.64%) Playwright
5 1 (0.64%) React
5 1 (0.64%) Sass
5 1 (0.64%) spray
5 1 (0.64%) Spring MVC
5 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.38%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.10%) Mobile App
3 7 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.91%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.27%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.64%) BBC
7 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.64%) EPoS
7 1 (0.64%) IVR
7 1 (0.64%) NHS
7 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.64%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.64%) PMI
7 1 (0.64%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.64%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.55%) Android
2 2 (1.27%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.64%) Linux
3 1 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (71.34%) User Stories
2 89 (56.69%) Agile
3 47 (29.94%) Business Analysis
4 39 (24.84%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (18.47%) DevOps
6 27 (17.20%) Scrum
7 20 (12.74%) Test Automation
7 20 (12.74%) Translating Business Requirements
7 20 (12.74%) Workshop Facilitation
8 19 (12.10%) Test Scripting
8 19 (12.10%) User Acceptance Testing
9 18 (11.46%) Service Design
9 18 (11.46%) Sprint Planning
10 17 (10.83%) Project Management
10 17 (10.83%) Roadmaps
10 17 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (10.19%) Project Delivery
11 16 (10.19%) Requirements Gathering
12 15 (9.55%) Scenario Testing
12 15 (9.55%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (7.64%) Java
2 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
3 6 (3.82%) SQL
4 5 (3.18%) Python
5 4 (2.55%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.27%) C#
6 2 (1.27%) Swift
6 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.64%) ABAP
7 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.64%) Scala
7 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.10%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.64%) Degree
4 4 (2.55%) CSPO
5 3 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.91%) ISEB
6 2 (1.27%) CBAP
6 2 (1.27%) IIBA
6 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.74%) QA
2 9 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.46%) WCAG
4 4 (2.55%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.55%) PMO
5 3 (1.91%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.27%) COBIT
6 2 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.27%) GDPR
6 2 (1.27%) PSD2
7 1 (0.64%) SLA
7 1 (0.64%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.64%) Grafana
1 1 (0.64%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (8.92%) SAP
2 12 (7.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.82%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.18%) Atlassian
5 4 (2.55%) Adobe
5 4 (2.55%) SimCorp
6 3 (1.91%) ESRI
7 2 (1.27%) Ariba
7 2 (1.27%) Civica
7 2 (1.27%) Google
7 2 (1.27%) IBM
8 1 (0.64%) HP
8 1 (0.64%) Informatica
8 1 (0.64%) Remedy