Acceptance Criteria Job Trends in Merton

Acceptance Criteria
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merton requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 11
Rank change year-on-year - - +27
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 4 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Merton 4.55% - 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% - 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile - - £51,250
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary - - £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -13.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85 42 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 96.59% 97.67% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 47 26 33
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,000 £36,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,380 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -10.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,250 £70,250
90th Percentile £85,500 £74,375 £92,500
South London median annual salary £42,625 £53,750 £58,000
% change year-on-year -20.70% -7.33% +5.45%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Merton

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in Merton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Acceptance Criteria.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merton citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Scala Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Scala Software Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Over-the-Top Content
1 4 (100.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes