Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Yorkshire

Acceptance Criteria
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 73 109 112
Rank change year-on-year +36 +3 -28
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 26 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.55% 0.74% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 0.82% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 26
10th Percentile £363 £453 £364
25th Percentile £413 £490 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +7.32% +20.59%
75th Percentile £500 £700 £550
90th Percentile £550 - -
England median daily rate £510 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -7.27% +8.91% +6.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,451 2,074 2,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.37% 90.77% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 1,375 1,771
10th Percentile £263 £285 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 65 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%
75th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £54.45 £27.25
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +34 17 £490 -23.14% 2
South Yorkshire +6 9 £425 -22.73% 1
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (11.54%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Adobe XD
1 2 (7.69%) InVision
1 2 (7.69%) Sketch
1 2 (7.69%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (26.92%) SAP PM
1 7 (26.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) AWS
1 2 (7.69%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Geospatial Data
1 3 (11.54%) GIS
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) JMeter
1 7 (26.92%) Selenium
2 2 (7.69%) Axure RP
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) JUnit
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Analyst
1 13 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) SAP Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) SAP Business Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Test Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) GIS Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) GIS Business Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Test Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Agile Business Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Designer
6 2 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Java Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Service Designer
6 2 (7.69%) Software Tester
7 1 (3.85%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (3.85%) Akka
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) Express.js
2 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) Sass
2 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (92.31%) User Stories
2 17 (65.38%) Agile
3 15 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (50.00%) Business Analysis
5 11 (42.31%) Requirements Gathering
6 10 (38.46%) Scrum
6 10 (38.46%) Waterfall
7 8 (30.77%) Test Scripting
8 7 (26.92%) DevOps
8 7 (26.92%) SDLC
8 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (15.38%) CRM
9 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
10 3 (11.54%) SDET
10 3 (11.54%) Service Design
11 2 (7.69%) Business Process Modelling
11 2 (7.69%) Co-Creation
11 2 (7.69%) Customer-Centricity
11 2 (7.69%) Ethnography
11 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Java
2 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.85%) Scala
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) CBAP
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) Accessibility
1 9 (34.62%) WCAG
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) SAP
2 3 (11.54%) ESRI
3 2 (7.69%) Adobe