Acceptance Criteria Job Trends in Edinburgh

Acceptance Criteria
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 74 96
Rank change year-on-year +9 +22 +12
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 3 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.29% 0.68% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.72% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £56,375 - -
25th Percentile £56,563 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.85%
75th Percentile £61,563 - £57,500
90th Percentile £62,125 - -
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 - £41,342
% change year-on-year - - -3.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 713 839 1,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 67.84% 94.91% 85.04%
Number of salaries quoted 487 383 904
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,951 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%
75th Percentile £71,750 £77,170 £73,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,522 £91,425
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £49,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% -4.55%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Acceptance Criteria.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
1 1 (33.33%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 3 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Information Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Sequence Diagram
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Identity
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft