Acceptance Criteria Job Trends in Cheltenham

Acceptance Criteria
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 3 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.34% - 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% - 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £35,250
25th Percentile £73,750 - £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £42,500
75th Percentile £81,250 - £61,875
90th Percentile - - £69,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £77,500 - £49,000

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

Acceptance Criteria falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 715 116 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 80.16% 81.69% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 508 74 189
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,313 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £85,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -8.70%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Acceptance Criteria.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) TestRail
1 2 (66.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Tracking
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA