Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Acceptance Criteria
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 90 82
Rank change year-on-year -27 -8 +40
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 13 4 24
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.69% 0.35% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.41% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 18
10th Percentile £322 - £401
25th Percentile £375 £515 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £530 £490
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +8.16% -4.39%
75th Percentile £476 £545 £555
90th Percentile £488 - £615
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,668 987 1,577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.96% 86.20% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 590 1,000
10th Percentile £252 £237 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -3.52%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £600
90th Percentile £644 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 28 27
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.84 £15.09
25th Percentile £17.10 £16.13 £17.07
Median hourly rate £25.08 £21.75 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% +2.06% +0.28%
75th Percentile £43.59 £38.75 £25.27
90th Percentile £57.33 £58.04 £46.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Acceptance Criteria relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Acceptance Criteria

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Yorkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Acceptance Criteria

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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 24 December 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
South Yorkshire -43 6 £456 - 5
West Yorkshire -13 5 £488 -8.02% 9
North Yorkshire - 2 £315 - 1
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) GCP
3 5 (38.46%) AWS
4 4 (30.77%) OpenShift
5 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 1 (7.69%) SaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) Zephyr
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JMeter
3 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.69%) TestRail
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Front Office
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Product Owner
2 5 (38.46%) Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Business Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Manual Tester
5 1 (7.69%) QA Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
5 1 (7.69%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
1 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
1 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Product Ownership
2 4 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.69%) Fixed Income
3 1 (7.69%) FMCG
3 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
3 1 (7.69%) PDA
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) User Stories
3 8 (61.54%) Product Backlog
3 8 (61.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (53.85%) DevOps
4 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
5 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
5 6 (46.15%) Sprint Planning
6 5 (38.46%) Backlog Management
6 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
6 5 (38.46%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (38.46%) Product Vision
6 5 (38.46%) Sprint Retrospective
7 4 (30.77%) Scrum
7 4 (30.77%) Sprint Review
8 2 (15.38%) Kanban
8 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) C#
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) CSPO
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) DocuSign
2 1 (7.69%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) MarketAxess
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Tradeweb