Acceptance Criteria Job Trends in Swansea

Acceptance Criteria
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea 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 44 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 7 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 2.02% - 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% - 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £38,957 - -
25th Percentile £42,188 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £56,250 - £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 - -
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +33.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 32 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 70.32% 76.19% 79.78%
Number of salaries quoted 164 25 127
10th Percentile £32,900 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -24.53% +21.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £76,201 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +32.51% -16.15% +7.51%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Swansea

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Acceptance Criteria.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Swansea over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Swansea

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) Miro
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Burp Suite
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) Gatling
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) Pa11y
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Development Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Development Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Test Development Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Wallet
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 4 (57.14%) User Stories
4 3 (42.86%) BDD
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Product Backlog
4 3 (42.86%) SDET
4 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (28.57%) Backlog Management
5 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CBAP
2 1 (14.29%) CIPD
2 1 (14.29%) CSPO
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (42.86%) QA
3 2 (28.57%) WCAG
4 1 (14.29%) GDPR
4 1 (14.29%) PMO