Operational Acceptance Criteria Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Criteria
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Operational Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria 13 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.015% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% - -
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £46,250 - -
25th Percentile £51,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Operational 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 60,135 29,546 42,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 70.33% 86.64% 78.67%
Number of salaries quoted 42,401 15,981 22,391
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Operational Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Operational Acceptance Criteria.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Operational Acceptance Criteria

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Operational Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Operational 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 Operational Acceptance Criteria within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 September 2026. 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
South East - 10 £70,000 - 4
Wales - 3 £47,500 -
Operational Acceptance Criteria
UK

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (61.54%) Confluence
1 8 (61.54%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub
1 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
1 3 (23.08%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) JUnit
2 3 (23.08%) Newman
2 3 (23.08%) Postman
2 3 (23.08%) REST Assured
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) TestRail
2 3 (23.08%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 8 (61.54%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Lead
2 3 (23.08%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Jest
1 3 (23.08%) Node.js
1 3 (23.08%) Playwright
1 3 (23.08%) React
1 3 (23.08%) Ruby on Rails
1 3 (23.08%) Spring
1 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Cloud Native
1 3 (23.08%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) End-to-End Testing
2 10 (76.92%) Project Delivery
2 10 (76.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (61.54%) Business Strategy
3 8 (61.54%) Change Management
3 8 (61.54%) SDLC
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Data Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Integration Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Kanban
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Resilience Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Security Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Test Management
5 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
1 3 (23.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) ISTQB
1 3 (23.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 1 (7.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
1 3 (23.08%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow