Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Acceptance Criteria skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 77 84
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -18
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 3 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.38% 0.59% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.67% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile - £320 £395
25th Percentile - - £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £370 £450
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -17.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile - £496 £497
90th Percentile - £619 £659
England median daily rate £510 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -7.27% +8.91% +6.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 613 891 1,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.29% 88.04% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 695 854
10th Percentile £200 £213 £200
25th Percentile £274 £341 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -13.47% +7.95% +12.10%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £520
90th Percentile £622 £700 £617
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 50 80
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.80 £9.73
25th Percentile £12.74 £16.36 £13.73
Median hourly rate £16.82 £22.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +13.75% +36.99%
75th Percentile £26.15 £51.50 £28.91
90th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the East Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Acceptance Criteria within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -2 2 £500 +35.14%
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 1
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Service Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Service Design Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Service Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Service Design
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CBAP
1 1 (33.33%) IIBA
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft