Acceptance Criteria Jobs in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 216 486 425
Rank change year-on-year +270 -61 -159
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 545 294 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.37% 0.39% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 0.48% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 95 165 209
10th Percentile £40,748 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,748 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £56,549
% change year-on-year +0.87% +1.68% -1.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

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 31 May 2025.

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 31 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 of England +122 178 £45,748 -3.69% 60
North West +81 158 £45,748 -3.69% 43
Midlands +144 151 £52,500 +10.53% 22
South East +143 119 £65,000 +8.33% 35
West Midlands +123 92 £55,000 +10.00% 17
East Midlands +72 59 £52,500 +75.00% 5
South West +97 39 £58,000 +5.45% 16
Scotland +134 32 - - 5
Yorkshire +52 20 £47,500 - 16
East of England +39 14 £42,500 +23.19% 14
Wales +36 12 £52,000 +4.00% 9
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 9 (1.65%) Confluence
2 7 (1.28%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (1.47%) MS Visio
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.55%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 9 (1.65%) Azure
2 8 (1.47%) Power Platform
3 7 (1.28%) Figma
4 6 (1.10%) Google Analytics
4 6 (1.10%) Miro
4 6 (1.10%) Serverless
5 4 (0.73%) Azure Functions
5 4 (0.73%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (0.73%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (0.73%) Google Workspace
5 4 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (0.73%) PowerApps
5 4 (0.73%) Slack
6 3 (0.55%) AWS
6 3 (0.55%) Power Automate
6 3 (0.55%) SaaS
7 2 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.37%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) BGP
1 2 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (0.37%) NX-OS
1 2 (0.37%) OSPF
1 2 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (0.37%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.37%) VXLAN
2 1 (0.18%) Firewall
2 1 (0.18%) Network Security
2 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (7.52%) JIRA
2 21 (3.85%) eggPlant
3 4 (0.73%) Balsamiq
3 4 (0.73%) Git
3 4 (0.73%) Postman
4 3 (0.55%) GitLab
5 2 (0.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.18%) JMeter
6 1 (0.18%) LoadRunner
General
1 66 (12.11%) Social Skills
2 24 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
3 15 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (2.75%) Finance
4 14 (2.57%) Marketing
5 9 (1.65%) Automotive
6 7 (1.28%) Aerospace
6 7 (1.28%) Publishing
7 6 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (0.92%) Banking
9 4 (0.73%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.55%) Health Technology
10 3 (0.55%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.55%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.37%) Retail
12 1 (0.18%) Front Office
12 1 (0.18%) Local Government
12 1 (0.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 270 (49.54%) Senior
2 258 (47.34%) Systems Engineer
3 228 (41.83%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 141 (25.87%) Principal Engineer
5 140 (25.69%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 124 (22.75%) Requirements Engineer
7 48 (8.81%) Analyst
8 28 (5.14%) Developer
9 24 (4.40%) Instrumentation Engineer
9 24 (4.40%) Senior Electrical Engineer
9 24 (4.40%) Software Developer
9 24 (4.40%) Test Analyst
10 22 (4.04%) Software Analyst
10 22 (4.04%) Software Test Analyst
11 21 (3.85%) Product Owner
12 18 (3.30%) Business Analyst
13 14 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
14 11 (2.02%) Senior Software Test Analyst
14 11 (2.02%) Senior Test Analyst
15 7 (1.28%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.28%) CSS
1 7 (1.28%) HTML
2 4 (0.73%) AngularJS
2 4 (0.73%) Laravel
2 4 (0.73%) Vue
3 3 (0.55%) FHIR
3 3 (0.55%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (0.55%) Middleware
3 3 (0.55%) Swagger
4 2 (0.37%) ADO
4 2 (0.37%) Gherkin
4 2 (0.37%) Playwright
4 2 (0.37%) REST
4 2 (0.37%) SOAP
5 1 (0.18%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.36%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.40%) SCADA
3 6 (1.10%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (0.92%) Mobile App
5 3 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (0.55%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.37%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.37%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.37%) Smart Meter
7 1 (0.18%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.18%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.18%) EPoS
7 1 (0.18%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.18%) NHS
7 1 (0.18%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.18%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (43.12%) Systems Engineering
2 132 (24.22%) Use Case
3 130 (23.85%) Validation
4 97 (17.80%) Agile
5 89 (16.33%) Requirements Management
6 70 (12.84%) User Stories
7 61 (11.19%) Mentoring
8 59 (10.83%) Mathematics
9 58 (10.64%) Change Management
9 58 (10.64%) Project Planning
10 44 (8.07%) Scrum
11 39 (7.16%) Collaborative Working
11 39 (7.16%) Customer Requirements
12 36 (6.61%) Roadmaps
13 34 (6.24%) Physics
14 29 (5.32%) Waterfall
15 28 (5.14%) Sprint Planning
16 27 (4.95%) Software Testing
16 27 (4.95%) Sprint Retrospective
17 26 (4.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.47%) SQL
2 7 (1.28%) TypeScript
3 6 (1.10%) JavaScript
4 4 (0.73%) C#
4 4 (0.73%) PHP
4 4 (0.73%) Python
5 1 (0.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 290 (53.21%) BPSS Clearance
2 266 (48.81%) Degree
3 147 (26.97%) Chartered Engineer
4 56 (10.28%) HNC
4 56 (10.28%) HND
5 24 (4.40%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (1.10%) Security Cleared
7 5 (0.92%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.37%) CBAP
9 2 (0.37%) ISEB
10 1 (0.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.18%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (1.83%) QA
2 3 (0.55%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 3 (0.55%) Data Quality
2 3 (0.55%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.18%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (0.37%) Ansible
1 2 (0.37%) Puppet
1 2 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (3.85%) Keysight
2 10 (1.83%) Google
3 9 (1.65%) Microsoft
4 3 (0.55%) Siebel
5 2 (0.37%) Cisco
6 1 (0.18%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle