Acceptance Criteria Jobs in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Acceptance Criteria skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 400 271
Rank change year-on-year -85 -129 +125
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 289 408 932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.68% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.71% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 165 224 589
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £70,700 £68,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £56,549 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.68% -1.65% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,266 57,626 66,862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.13% 95.63% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 41,003 29,573 41,244
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Acceptance Criteria within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 of England +19 77 £47,500 -16.67% 20
North West -6 52 £47,500 -17.39% 10
South West -18 52 £55,000 +4.76% 11
Midlands -40 51 £47,500 -5.00% 18
South East -34 50 £60,000 +6.19% 30
East Midlands +5 28 £32,250 -40.06% 5
Yorkshire +81 25 £47,500 -13.64% 8
East of England +5 23 £34,500 -37.27% 12
West Midlands -45 23 £50,000 - 13
Scotland -63 18 £40,000 -27.27% 10
Wales +12 16 £47,500 +26.67% 3
Northern Ireland +31 2 - -
Acceptance Criteria
UK

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 46 (15.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 20 (6.92%) MS Visio
2 15 (5.19%) Trello
3 10 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.35%) InVision
6 1 (0.35%) Sketch
6 1 (0.35%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (15.92%) Azure
2 26 (9.00%) AWS
3 25 (8.65%) Miro
4 19 (6.57%) Power Platform
5 17 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (5.88%) SaaS
6 13 (4.50%) Serverless
7 11 (3.81%) Amazon S3
7 11 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.73%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (1.73%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (1.73%) BrowserStack
8 5 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.04%) GitHub
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.35%) Collibra
11 1 (0.35%) Figma
11 1 (0.35%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.15%) Internet
2 11 (3.81%) HTTP
3 10 (3.46%) Broadband
3 10 (3.46%) WPA
4 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.57%) Power BI
2 13 (4.50%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.46%) Tableau
4 9 (3.11%) GIS
5 8 (2.77%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.42%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.08%) Big Data
7 6 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (2.08%) Star Schema
8 5 (1.73%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.38%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.35%) Apache Accumulo
11 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 92 (31.83%) JIRA
2 15 (5.19%) Git
3 12 (4.15%) Postman
4 11 (3.81%) Cypress.io
4 11 (3.81%) Selenium
5 8 (2.77%) SpecFlow
6 6 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.73%) JMeter
7 5 (1.73%) MSTest
8 4 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.69%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.69%) GitLab
10 2 (0.69%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Team System
10 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.35%) JIRA Agile
11 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Coded UI
11 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 81 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 65 (22.49%) Finance
3 62 (21.45%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (14.53%) Retail
5 41 (14.19%) Marketing
6 36 (12.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (6.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 17 (5.88%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.46%) Law
10 7 (2.42%) Games
10 7 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.73%) Retail Finance
12 4 (1.38%) Automotive
12 4 (1.38%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.04%) Back Office
13 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.04%) Legal
13 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 118 (40.83%) Analyst
2 88 (30.45%) Business Analyst
3 56 (19.38%) Senior
4 45 (15.57%) Product Manager
5 37 (12.80%) Senior Analyst
5 37 (12.80%) Senior Business Analyst
6 22 (7.61%) Product Owner
7 20 (6.92%) Tester
8 18 (6.23%) Research Analyst
9 13 (4.50%) Developer
10 11 (3.81%) Lead
10 11 (3.81%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.81%) Software Tester
10 11 (3.81%) Technical Analyst
10 11 (3.81%) Technical Business Analyst
11 9 (3.11%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.11%) Software Engineer
12 8 (2.77%) QA Engineer
13 7 (2.42%) Market Risk Analyst
13 7 (2.42%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.27%) .NET
2 19 (6.57%) Lightning Web Components
3 17 (5.88%) JSON
4 16 (5.54%) REST
5 14 (4.84%) HTML
6 12 (4.15%) CSS
7 9 (3.11%) .NET Core
8 8 (2.77%) XML
9 7 (2.42%) RESTful
9 7 (2.42%) Web Services
10 5 (1.73%) .NET Framework
10 5 (1.73%) ASP.NET
10 5 (1.73%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (1.73%) Blazor
11 4 (1.38%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.38%) HTML5
12 3 (1.04%) React
13 2 (0.69%) Jest
13 2 (0.69%) Swagger
13 2 (0.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 72 (24.91%) Product Ownership
2 25 (8.65%) NHS
3 18 (6.23%) Life Science
4 17 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.77%) Data Structures
6 8 (2.77%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.42%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.73%) PMI
9 4 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.38%) FMCG
9 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.04%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.04%) Derivative
11 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.69%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.69%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 1 (0.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.73%) Android
1 5 (1.73%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.38%) Linux
3 3 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (64.36%) Agile
2 152 (52.60%) User Stories
3 77 (26.64%) Roadmaps
4 74 (25.61%) Scrum
5 54 (18.69%) Requirements Gathering
6 53 (18.34%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (17.65%) Business Analysis
8 50 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
9 49 (16.96%) Project Management
9 49 (16.96%) Test Automation
10 45 (15.57%) Epics
11 39 (13.49%) DevOps
12 38 (13.15%) Product Roadmap
12 38 (13.15%) User Experience
12 38 (13.15%) Workshop Facilitation
13 36 (12.46%) Product Backlog
13 36 (12.46%) Product Strategy
14 32 (11.07%) Analytics
14 32 (11.07%) Backlog Refinement
14 32 (11.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 35 (12.11%) SQL
2 27 (9.34%) C#
2 27 (9.34%) JavaScript
3 14 (4.84%) Python
4 9 (3.11%) Apex Code
5 8 (2.77%) R
5 8 (2.77%) T-SQL
6 6 (2.08%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.38%) Java
8 2 (0.69%) Bash
8 2 (0.69%) C++
8 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.69%) Tcl
8 2 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (29.76%) Degree
2 40 (13.84%) Security Cleared
3 23 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.77%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.42%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.08%) IIBA
8 5 (1.73%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.38%) ISEB
10 3 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.04%) PMP
11 2 (0.69%) CAPM
11 2 (0.69%) CSPO
11 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.69%) MBA
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.35%) CBAP
12 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (20.76%) QA
2 18 (6.23%) GLP
3 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.08%) IEC 62304
3 6 (2.08%) PMO
4 2 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.69%) Docker
2 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.73%) Grafana
1 5 (1.73%) Kibana
2 3 (1.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (8.30%) Salesforce
2 23 (7.96%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.04%) Cadence
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe
4 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.35%) Google
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle