Acceptance Criteria Job Trends in Derbyshire

Acceptance Criteria
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 1 0 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 0.11% - 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - -
75th Percentile £43,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £58,750 £52,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year +11.90% +75.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 670 401 460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 73.79% 84.42% 66.96%
Number of salaries quoted 415 199 295
10th Percentile £27,200 £23,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% -7.34%
75th Percentile £57,250 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,750 £61,250
East Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Acceptance Criteria.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Acceptance Criteria within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 11 August 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derby - 1 £42,500 -
Acceptance Criteria
East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python