Acceptance Criteria Jobs in the North of England

Acceptance Criteria
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 313 336
Rank change year-on-year +138 +23 -124
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 179 78 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.55% 0.45% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 0.53% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 34 50 72
10th Percentile - £37,125 £40,125
25th Percentile £40,748 £43,750 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,748 £47,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% -15.18% +12.00%
75th Percentile £51,500 £53,438 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,625 £56,250 £77,250
England median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,969 14,596 16,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.96% 83.43% 96.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,881 11,211 7,960
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the North of England

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the North of England.

Salary trend for Acceptance Criteria in the North of England

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the North of England

Acceptance Criteria
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Acceptance Criteria within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
North West +82 155 £45,748 -3.69% 37
Yorkshire +63 20 £47,500 - 11
North East - 4 £46,250 - 5
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (2.79%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (3.35%) Azure
2 5 (2.79%) Miro
3 4 (2.23%) Figma
3 4 (2.23%) Google Workspace
3 4 (2.23%) Slack
4 3 (1.68%) AWS
5 2 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.12%) Serverless
5 2 (1.12%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
Development Applications
1 29 (16.20%) JIRA
2 21 (11.73%) eggPlant
3 4 (2.23%) Balsamiq
4 3 (1.68%) Git
5 2 (1.12%) Postman
5 2 (1.12%) Selenium
General
1 48 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.41%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.79%) Finance
5 4 (2.23%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.68%) Automotive
6 3 (1.68%) Retail
7 1 (0.56%) Back Office
7 1 (0.56%) Banking
7 1 (0.56%) Front Office
7 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 111 (62.01%) Senior
2 75 (41.90%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 51 (28.49%) Systems Engineer
4 30 (16.76%) Analyst
5 24 (13.41%) Instrumentation Engineer
5 24 (13.41%) Senior Electrical Engineer
6 21 (11.73%) Software Analyst
6 21 (11.73%) Software Test Analyst
6 21 (11.73%) Test Analyst
7 11 (6.15%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (6.15%) Senior Software Test Analyst
7 11 (6.15%) Senior Test Analyst
8 5 (2.79%) Business Analyst
8 5 (2.79%) Product Owner
9 4 (2.23%) Digital Product Owner
9 4 (2.23%) Software Engineer
10 3 (1.68%) Lead
11 2 (1.12%) C# .NET Developer
11 2 (1.12%) Developer
11 2 (1.12%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.91%) AngularJS
2 4 (2.23%) Laravel
2 4 (2.23%) Vue
3 3 (1.68%) .NET
3 3 (1.68%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.68%) ASP.NET
3 3 (1.68%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (1.68%) Blazor
3 3 (1.68%) React
4 2 (1.12%) ADO
4 2 (1.12%) REST
4 2 (1.12%) SOAP
5 1 (0.56%) CSS
5 1 (0.56%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.41%) SCADA
2 9 (5.03%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.12%) Smart Meter
5 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.12%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (49.16%) Systems Engineering
2 57 (31.84%) Change Management
2 57 (31.84%) Project Planning
3 44 (24.58%) Mentoring
4 38 (21.23%) Agile
5 32 (17.88%) Requirements Management
6 31 (17.32%) Scrum
7 24 (13.41%) Mathematics
7 24 (13.41%) Test Automation
8 23 (12.85%) Software Testing
8 23 (12.85%) Waterfall
9 21 (11.73%) V-Model
10 19 (10.61%) Use Case
11 13 (7.26%) User Stories
12 10 (5.59%) User Experience
13 8 (4.47%) Roadmaps
13 8 (4.47%) Software Engineering
13 8 (4.47%) User Acceptance Testing
14 7 (3.91%) Product Backlog
14 7 (3.91%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.03%) SQL
2 6 (3.35%) JavaScript
2 6 (3.35%) TypeScript
3 4 (2.23%) PHP
4 3 (1.68%) C#
5 1 (0.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 133 (74.30%) BPSS Clearance
2 79 (44.13%) Degree
3 56 (31.28%) HNC
3 56 (31.28%) HND
4 24 (13.41%) Numerate Degree
5 19 (10.61%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.79%) QA
2 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (1.12%) Puppet
1 2 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (11.73%) Keysight
2 7 (3.91%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.23%) Google
4 3 (1.68%) Siebel
5 1 (0.56%) Facebook
5 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow