Acceptance Criteria Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Acceptance Criteria
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 0.26% - 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% - 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £48,800
25th Percentile £36,250 - £60,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 - £61,000
75th Percentile £38,750 - £61,500
90th Percentile - - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £65,000 - £61,000
% change year-on-year - - +22.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 92 307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 61.48% 89.32% 82.09%
Number of salaries quoted 166 46 263
10th Percentile £26,125 £28,000 £22,470
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £28,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £43,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,894 £58,750 £62,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £52,500 £39,500 £40,060
% change year-on-year +32.91% -1.40% -10.98%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Acceptance Criteria.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Business Development
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Product Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR