Operational Acceptance Criteria Job Trends

Operational Acceptance Criteria
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Operational Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 722 667 -
Rank change year-on-year -55 - -
Permanent jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria 9 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.005% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.005% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £61,250 - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,040 40,758 85,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.42% 93.05% 83.05%
Number of salaries quoted 45,181 21,501 61,227
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Operational Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in the UK

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend

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

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

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Operational Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Operational Acceptance Criteria in the UK

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Top 5 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 June 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
UK excluding London - 9 £70,000 -
England -37 8 £72,500 - 3
Work from Home - 8 £72,500 - 2
South East - 8 £72,500 -
Wales - 1 £47,500 -

Operational Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (88.89%) Confluence
1 8 (88.89%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Newman
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) TestRail
2 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (88.89%) Finance
2 8 (88.89%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Jest
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
1 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 8 (88.89%) Business Strategy
2 8 (88.89%) Change Management
2 8 (88.89%) Project Delivery
2 8 (88.89%) SDLC
2 8 (88.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Community of Practice
3 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Kanban
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Test Management
3 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) WCAG