Acceptance Criteria Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Acceptance Criteria
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 209 194 209
Rank change year-on-year -15 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 95 157 308
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.96% 1.02% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.16% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 116 240
10th Percentile £340 £400 £400
25th Percentile £364 £443 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £549
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.93% +9.80%
75th Percentile £519 £567 £600
90th Percentile £608 £625 £612
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £23.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -59.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile - £24.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £32.36 £58.75
% change year-on-year +100.90% -44.93% +10.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Acceptance Criteria
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Acceptance Criteria trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 30 (31.58%) Confluence
2 3 (3.16%) CMS
2 3 (3.16%) Drupal
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.05%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Trello
2 7 (7.37%) MS Visio
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.16%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (1.05%) Adobe XD
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (1.05%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.05%) MultiFonds
1 1 (1.05%) SAP CX
1 1 (1.05%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (1.05%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.05%) SAP MDM
1 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.00%) Azure
2 9 (9.47%) AWS
3 8 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (5.26%) Miro
5 4 (4.21%) GCP
6 3 (3.16%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.16%) SaaS
7 2 (2.11%) Datadog
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.05%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.05%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.05%) Figma
8 1 (1.05%) Pendo
8 1 (1.05%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.05%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) DHCP
1 3 (3.16%) DNS
1 3 (3.16%) DOCSIS
1 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
1 3 (3.16%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (2.11%) Network Security
2 2 (2.11%) VLAN
2 2 (2.11%) Wireless
3 1 (1.05%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.11%) InfluxDB
1 2 (2.11%) Looker
1 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.05%) DocumentDB
2 1 (1.05%) Flink
2 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.05%) Power BI
2 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (41.05%) JIRA
2 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.11%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.11%) GitLab
3 2 (2.11%) Postman
3 2 (2.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.05%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.05%) Gatling
4 1 (1.05%) Git
4 1 (1.05%) Hamcrest
4 1 (1.05%) JMeter
4 1 (1.05%) JUnit
4 1 (1.05%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.05%) MLflow
4 1 (1.05%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.05%) Selenium
4 1 (1.05%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (1.05%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.05%) TestComplete
General
1 47 (49.47%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.26%) Public Sector
3 17 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.74%) Finance
5 6 (6.32%) Banking
6 4 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Marketing
7 3 (3.16%) Retail
8 2 (2.11%) Back Office
8 2 (2.11%) Electronics
8 2 (2.11%) Legal
8 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.05%) Automotive
9 1 (1.05%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.05%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (50.53%) Analyst
2 45 (47.37%) Business Analyst
3 14 (14.74%) Product Owner
4 11 (11.58%) Senior
5 9 (9.47%) Agile Business Analyst
6 7 (7.37%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (7.37%) Technical Business Analyst
7 6 (6.32%) Product Manager
7 6 (6.32%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (6.32%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (5.26%) Data Analyst
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Product Owner
8 5 (5.26%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Tester
9 4 (4.21%) Data Business Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Change Manager
10 3 (3.16%) QA Tester
10 3 (3.16%) SAP Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.21%) Playwright
2 3 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.16%) Kafka
3 2 (2.11%) ADO
3 2 (2.11%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.05%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (1.05%) REST
4 1 (1.05%) RESTful
4 1 (1.05%) Spring
4 1 (1.05%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.05%) Swagger
4 1 (1.05%) Web Services
4 1 (1.05%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 35 (36.84%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.21%) IoT
3 3 (3.16%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.11%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.11%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.05%) CMDB
5 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.05%) PMI
5 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Linux
2 2 (2.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (73.68%) Agile
2 67 (70.53%) User Stories
3 27 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (28.42%) Sprint Planning
4 25 (26.32%) Scrum
4 25 (26.32%) Workshop Facilitation
5 22 (23.16%) Sprint Retrospective
6 21 (22.11%) Product Backlog
7 20 (21.05%) Roadmaps
7 20 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (20.00%) Business Analysis
9 18 (18.95%) User Experience
10 17 (17.89%) Requirements Gathering
10 17 (17.89%) User Research
11 16 (16.84%) Backlog Management
12 15 (15.79%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 14 (14.74%) Decision-Making
13 14 (14.74%) Epics
14 13 (13.68%) DevOps
15 12 (12.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.26%) Java
2 3 (3.16%) Python
3 2 (2.11%) C
3 2 (2.11%) C++
3 2 (2.11%) Go
3 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.05%) ABAP
4 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.05%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) Degree
4 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.11%) CSPO
5 2 (2.11%) SAFe Agilist
6 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.84%) QA
2 14 (14.74%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.16%) PMO
4 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.05%) GxP
4 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.11%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.11%) Grafana
1 2 (2.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.05%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.05%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.05%) Kibana
2 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.05%) SCCM
2 1 (1.05%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.26%) SAP
3 4 (4.21%) Splunk
4 3 (3.16%) Palantir
4 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.11%) Databricks
6 1 (1.05%) Adobe
6 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.05%) Citrix
6 1 (1.05%) Conga
6 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.05%) Google
6 1 (1.05%) HP
6 1 (1.05%) Kronos
6 1 (1.05%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.05%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.05%) Temenos