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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 484 387
Rank change year-on-year +238 -97 -118
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 620 468 896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 0.48% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.55% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 153 300 498
10th Percentile £40,748 £38,400 £38,525
25th Percentile £45,748 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,250 £87,625 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 48,105 84,479 100,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.22% 86.05% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 26,550 59,789 58,948
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.71% +2.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 26 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 26 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 +206 561 £58,000 +0.87% 331
UK excluding London +306 511 £50,000 - 164
North of England +155 172 £45,748 -3.69% 50
North West +103 147 £45,748 -3.69% 32
Midlands +153 143 £52,500 +10.53% 26
South East +151 93 £46,374 -22.71% 39
London +39 90 £72,500 -7.94% 189
West Midlands +126 87 £55,000 +10.00% 18
Work from Home +71 73 £55,000 +4.76% 140
East Midlands +90 56 £52,500 +62.79% 8
South West +110 45 £58,000 +5.45% 22
Scotland +150 34 £40,000 - 6
Yorkshire +70 21 £46,250 -2.63% 12
East of England +54 15 £41,250 +19.57% 12
Wales +35 9 £52,000 +9.47% 3
North East - 4 £46,250 - 6

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 (1.29%) Confluence
2 7 (1.13%) CMS
3 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.13%) Trello
4 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.48%) Siebel CRM
2 1 (0.16%) Magento
2 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (4.03%) SaaS
2 24 (3.87%) Azure
3 21 (3.39%) Power Platform
4 18 (2.90%) AWS
5 14 (2.26%) Serverless
6 10 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
6 10 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (1.61%) Figma
7 9 (1.45%) Amazon S3
8 7 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (0.97%) Google Analytics
9 6 (0.97%) Miro
10 5 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (0.81%) PaaS
11 4 (0.65%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.65%) Lucidchart
11 4 (0.65%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.32%) Firewall
1 2 (0.32%) Network Security
2 1 (0.16%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.16%) WAN
2 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (2.58%) Power BI
2 8 (1.29%) Tableau
3 5 (0.81%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.32%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.32%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.32%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.16%) Big Data
5 1 (0.16%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.16%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 53 (8.55%) JIRA
2 21 (3.39%) eggPlant
3 8 (1.29%) Postman
3 8 (1.29%) Selenium
4 7 (1.13%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.81%) Eclipse
5 5 (0.81%) Git
6 4 (0.65%) Balsamiq
6 4 (0.65%) JMeter
6 4 (0.65%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.48%) GitLab
7 3 (0.48%) Mocha
7 3 (0.48%) MSTest
7 3 (0.48%) NUnit
7 3 (0.48%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.32%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.16%) JUnit
9 1 (0.16%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.16%) TestNG
General
1 119 (19.19%) Social Skills
2 62 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (7.58%) Finance
4 26 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
5 21 (3.39%) Marketing
6 20 (3.23%) Publishing
7 17 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.94%) Automotive
9 12 (1.94%) Banking
9 12 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.77%) Health Technology
11 10 (1.61%) Retail
12 9 (1.45%) Tech for Good
13 7 (1.13%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.97%) Legal
15 5 (0.81%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 3 (0.48%) Investment Banking
18 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 284 (45.81%) Senior
2 256 (41.29%) Systems Engineer
3 227 (36.61%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 138 (22.26%) Principal Engineer
5 137 (22.10%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 115 (18.55%) Requirements Engineer
7 80 (12.90%) Analyst
8 43 (6.94%) Business Analyst
9 34 (5.48%) Product Owner
10 27 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
11 24 (3.87%) Instrumentation Engineer
11 24 (3.87%) Lead
11 24 (3.87%) Senior Electrical Engineer
11 24 (3.87%) Software Analyst
11 24 (3.87%) Test Analyst
12 22 (3.55%) Software Test Analyst
13 19 (3.06%) Product Manager
14 11 (1.77%) Developer
14 11 (1.77%) Senior Software Test Analyst
14 11 (1.77%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.39%) RESTful
2 9 (1.45%) CSS
2 9 (1.45%) HTML
3 7 (1.13%) AngularJS
4 6 (0.97%) Playwright
4 6 (0.97%) Swagger
5 5 (0.81%) React
6 4 (0.65%) .NET
6 4 (0.65%) Laravel
6 4 (0.65%) Vue
7 3 (0.48%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.48%) ASP.NET
7 3 (0.48%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (0.48%) Blazor
7 3 (0.48%) Gherkin
7 3 (0.48%) GraphQL
7 3 (0.48%) Jest
7 3 (0.48%) REST
7 3 (0.48%) Web Services
7 3 (0.48%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 24 (3.87%) SCADA
3 10 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (1.13%) Cloud Native
5 6 (0.97%) Management Information System
5 6 (0.97%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (0.97%) Mobile App
5 6 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (0.65%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.48%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.32%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.32%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Security Posture
9 1 (0.16%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.16%) EPoS
9 1 (0.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.16%) NHS
9 1 (0.16%) PMI
9 1 (0.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.32%) Linux
1 2 (0.32%) Windows
1 2 (0.32%) Windows Server
1 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (36.45%) Systems Engineering
2 162 (26.13%) Use Case
3 156 (25.16%) Agile
4 127 (20.48%) Validation
5 110 (17.74%) User Stories
6 98 (15.81%) Requirements Management
7 81 (13.06%) Mentoring
8 75 (12.10%) Scrum
9 67 (10.81%) Roadmaps
10 59 (9.52%) Change Management
10 59 (9.52%) Mathematics
11 50 (8.06%) Project Planning
12 42 (6.77%) Business Analysis
13 40 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
14 39 (6.29%) Customer Requirements
15 37 (5.97%) Problem-Solving
15 37 (5.97%) User Experience
16 34 (5.48%) Coaching
16 34 (5.48%) Physics
16 34 (5.48%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 37 (5.97%) SQL
2 32 (5.16%) Python
3 12 (1.94%) JavaScript
3 12 (1.94%) TypeScript
4 9 (1.45%) C#
5 6 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (0.81%) Java
7 4 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 297 (47.90%) Degree
2 280 (45.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 160 (25.81%) Chartered Engineer
4 48 (7.74%) HNC
4 48 (7.74%) HND
5 24 (3.87%) Numerate Degree
6 11 (1.77%) Security Cleared
7 9 (1.45%) SC Cleared
8 7 (1.13%) CSPO
9 6 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.48%) CBAP
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.32%) IIBA
12 2 (0.32%) ISEB
12 2 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.16%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.94%) QA
2 8 (1.29%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.48%) GDPR
5 2 (0.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (0.32%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.16%) GAAP
6 1 (0.16%) IFRS
6 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.16%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.32%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.32%) Puppet
1 2 (0.32%) Terraform
2 1 (0.16%) CASB
2 1 (0.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 21 (3.39%) Keysight
2 19 (3.06%) Microsoft
3 12 (1.94%) Google
4 8 (1.29%) Salesforce
5 6 (0.97%) Databricks
6 3 (0.48%) SAP
6 3 (0.48%) ServiceNow
6 3 (0.48%) Siebel
7 2 (0.32%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.32%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.16%) Facebook
8 1 (0.16%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.16%) Mercator
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle
8 1 (0.16%) Workday