Acceptance Criteria Contracts in Edinburgh

Acceptance Criteria
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 91 108
Rank change year-on-year +27 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 10 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.15% 0.93% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.99% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 16
10th Percentile £422 £380 £356
25th Percentile £451 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +15.39% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £580 £531 £489
90th Percentile £591 £558 £500
Scotland median daily rate £463 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -11.90% +16.67% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 739 1,111 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 84.94% 93.99% 94.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 775 1,224
10th Percentile £215 £225 £265
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £570
90th Percentile £655 £605 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Digital Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Digital Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (20.00%) Security Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Equities
1 2 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (40.00%) GAP Analysis
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (40.00%) User Stories
2 4 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (30.00%) Product Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Service Design
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 2 (20.00%) SWOT Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) ISEB
2 2 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (10.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (10.00%) NCSC
2 1 (10.00%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google