Acceptance Criteria Jobs in the Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 269 225
Rank change year-on-year +148 -44 +1
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 152 51 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.15% 0.43% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 0.52% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9 24 47
10th Percentile £48,000 £33,250 £36,700
25th Percentile £48,750 £39,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +1.37%
75th Percentile £56,250 £54,688 £60,625
90th Percentile £59,750 £61,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,477 9,753 8,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.63% 81.88% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,617 7,144 4,454
10th Percentile £27,331 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £34,959 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Acceptance Criteria in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Acceptance Criteria within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +121 93 £55,000 +10.00% 22
East Midlands +61 59 £52,500 +62.79% 7
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.66%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (2.63%) Power Platform
2 3 (1.97%) Figma
3 1 (0.66%) Azure
3 1 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.66%) Lucidchart
3 1 (0.66%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.97%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.63%) JIRA
2 3 (1.97%) GitLab
3 2 (1.32%) Postman
4 1 (0.66%) Git
4 1 (0.66%) JMeter
4 1 (0.66%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (5.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (1.97%) Automotive
3 3 (1.97%) Finance
4 2 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (1.32%) Banking
4 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
4 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.66%) Retail
5 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 125 (82.24%) Principal Engineer
2 124 (81.58%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 124 (81.58%) Requirements Engineer
3 67 (44.08%) Systems Engineer
4 13 (8.55%) Senior
4 13 (8.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 6 (3.95%) Analyst
6 4 (2.63%) Business Analyst
6 4 (2.63%) Product Manager
7 3 (1.97%) Product Owner
8 2 (1.32%) Technical Product Owner
9 1 (0.66%) Change Analyst
9 1 (0.66%) Data Business Analyst
9 1 (0.66%) Fibre Engineer
9 1 (0.66%) IT Engineer
9 1 (0.66%) QA Analyst
9 1 (0.66%) Software Product Manager
9 1 (0.66%) Software Tester
9 1 (0.66%) Technical Analyst
9 1 (0.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.66%) Playwright
1 1 (0.66%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
1 3 (1.97%) Mobile App
1 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
2 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (0.66%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (0.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (82.24%) Systems Engineering
2 124 (81.58%) Validation
3 13 (8.55%) Use Case
4 11 (7.24%) Agile
5 10 (6.58%) User Stories
6 8 (5.26%) Scrum
7 7 (4.61%) Roadmaps
8 6 (3.95%) Kanban
8 6 (3.95%) Product Management
8 6 (3.95%) Product Roadmap
8 6 (3.95%) Project Management
8 6 (3.95%) SDLC
9 5 (3.29%) Focus Group
10 4 (2.63%) Business Analysis
10 4 (2.63%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (2.63%) Product Backlog
10 4 (2.63%) Strategic Roadmap
10 4 (2.63%) Wireframes
11 3 (1.97%) Service Delivery
11 3 (1.97%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.32%) SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (81.58%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (10.53%) Degree
3 13 (8.55%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (1.32%) CBAP
4 2 (1.32%) ISEB
5 1 (0.66%) CSPO
5 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.66%) SAFe Agilist
5 1 (0.66%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.66%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (1.32%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle