Acceptance Criteria Jobs

Acceptance Criteria
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 465 366
Rank change year-on-year +183 -99 -91
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 500 451 1,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 0.49% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.56% 0.98%
Number of salaries quoted 159 303 566
10th Percentile £40,748 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% - +0.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,250 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.50% -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 47,280 80,404 105,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.55% 86.78% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 25,837 58,088 61,888
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £34,095
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £54,590
% change year-on-year +5.20% -8.41% +3.98%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria.

Salary trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the UK

Acceptance Criteria
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 April 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
England +162 438 £58,000 +0.87% 315
UK excluding London +238 383 £52,250 +4.50% 205
Midlands +124 97 £52,500 +7.69% 22
London +4 94 £72,500 -9.38% 151
South East +143 90 £50,000 - 56
North of England +105 88 £45,748 -3.69% 50
Work from Home +74 79 £62,500 +19.05% 159
North West +50 64 £45,748 -3.69% 35
West Midlands +67 56 £53,750 +7.50% 16
South West +99 45 £58,000 +5.45% 27
East Midlands +80 41 £52,500 +52.17% 5
Scotland +137 37 £46,250 +11.87% 24
Yorkshire +72 20 £46,250 -2.63% 8
East of England +50 17 £37,500 +8.70% 13
Wales +30 9 £52,000 +4.00% 8
North East - 4 £46,250 - 7

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (1.60%) Confluence
2 7 (1.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 10 (2.00%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.40%) Trello
4 5 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 29 (5.80%) Azure
1 29 (5.80%) SaaS
2 25 (5.00%) AWS
2 25 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 21 (4.20%) Serverless
4 17 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
4 17 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (3.20%) Amazon S3
6 10 (2.00%) Figma
7 9 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.20%) Google Analytics
10 6 (1.20%) Miro
11 4 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (0.80%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.80%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.20%) SD-WAN
1 1 (0.20%) WAN
1 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.00%) Power BI
2 8 (1.60%) Tableau
3 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.80%) Data Mining
5 2 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.40%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.40%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.20%) Big Data
6 1 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (11.20%) JIRA
2 21 (4.20%) eggPlant
3 7 (1.40%) Cypress.io
3 7 (1.40%) Git
3 7 (1.40%) Selenium
4 6 (1.20%) Postman
5 5 (1.00%) JMeter
6 4 (0.80%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.80%) GitLab
6 4 (0.80%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.60%) Mocha
7 3 (0.60%) MSTest
7 3 (0.60%) NUnit
7 3 (0.60%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.40%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.40%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.20%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.20%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.20%) TestNG
General
1 101 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 66 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (10.60%) Finance
4 27 (5.40%) Publishing
5 26 (5.20%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (4.40%) Marketing
6 22 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
7 18 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (3.20%) Health Technology
8 16 (3.20%) Tech for Good
9 15 (3.00%) Banking
10 12 (2.40%) Retail
11 6 (1.20%) Automotive
12 5 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.00%) Legal
13 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.60%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.60%) Law
14 3 (0.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 233 (46.60%) Senior
2 173 (34.60%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 173 (34.60%) Systems Engineer
3 93 (18.60%) Principal Engineer
4 92 (18.40%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 82 (16.40%) Analyst
6 70 (14.00%) Requirements Engineer
7 48 (9.60%) Business Analyst
8 34 (6.80%) Product Owner
9 31 (6.20%) Lead
10 26 (5.20%) Senior Analyst
11 24 (4.80%) Instrumentation Engineer
11 24 (4.80%) Senior Electrical Engineer
11 24 (4.80%) Software Analyst
11 24 (4.80%) Test Analyst
12 22 (4.40%) Software Test Analyst
13 18 (3.60%) Developer
13 18 (3.60%) Product Manager
14 15 (3.00%) Technical Analyst
15 14 (2.80%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (5.20%) RESTful
2 9 (1.80%) CSS
2 9 (1.80%) HTML
3 7 (1.40%) AngularJS
4 6 (1.20%) Playwright
5 5 (1.00%) React
5 5 (1.00%) Swagger
6 4 (0.80%) .NET
6 4 (0.80%) Laravel
6 4 (0.80%) Vue
7 3 (0.60%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.60%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (0.60%) Blazor
7 3 (0.60%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.60%) Jest
7 3 (0.60%) REST
7 3 (0.60%) Web Services
7 3 (0.60%) WebdriverIO
8 2 (0.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 68 (13.60%) Product Ownership
2 24 (4.80%) SCADA
3 9 (1.80%) Management Information System
4 8 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.40%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
6 6 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (0.80%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (0.60%) EPoS
9 2 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.20%) Cloud Security Posture
10 1 (0.20%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.20%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.20%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.20%) PMI
10 1 (0.20%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.40%) Linux
1 2 (0.40%) Windows
1 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
1 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (32.60%) Use Case
2 162 (32.40%) Agile
3 123 (24.60%) User Stories
4 95 (19.00%) Systems Engineering
5 84 (16.80%) Scrum
6 83 (16.60%) Validation
7 62 (12.40%) Roadmaps
8 61 (12.20%) Mathematics
9 59 (11.80%) Requirements Management
10 58 (11.60%) Mentoring
11 43 (8.60%) Coaching
11 43 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (8.20%) Business Analysis
13 40 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
14 38 (7.60%) Customer Requirements
15 37 (7.40%) Test Automation
16 36 (7.20%) Software Testing
17 35 (7.00%) User Experience
18 34 (6.80%) Physics
18 34 (6.80%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 44 (8.80%) Python
2 43 (8.60%) SQL
3 14 (2.80%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.40%) TypeScript
5 9 (1.80%) C#
5 9 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.20%) Java
7 4 (0.80%) PHP
8 1 (0.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 263 (52.60%) Degree
2 160 (32.00%) Chartered Engineer
3 149 (29.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 24 (4.80%) Numerate Degree
5 12 (2.40%) Security Cleared
6 8 (1.60%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.40%) CSPO
7 7 (1.40%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.60%) CBAP
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.40%) IIBA
10 2 (0.40%) ISEB
10 2 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.20%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.20%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (10.40%) QA
2 8 (1.60%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.60%) GDPR
5 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.20%) GAAP
6 1 (0.20%) IFRS
6 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.20%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.40%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.40%) Puppet
1 2 (0.40%) Terraform
2 1 (0.20%) CASB
2 1 (0.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (4.80%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.20%) Keysight
3 12 (2.40%) Google
4 9 (1.80%) Databricks
4 9 (1.80%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.60%) SAP
6 2 (0.40%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.40%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.40%) Siebel
7 1 (0.20%) Facebook
7 1 (0.20%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.20%) Mercator
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle
7 1 (0.20%) Workday