Acceptance Criteria Contracts in England

Acceptance Criteria
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 224 216 209
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 +37
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 372 582 1,005
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.02% 1.20% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.33% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 401 623
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £418 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +8.91% +6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £604 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 22
10th Percentile £27.23 £49.15 £42.00
25th Percentile £31.71 £55.75 £44.75
Median hourly rate £32.36 £60.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.08% -5.14% +118.10%
75th Percentile £57.00 £67.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £60.00 £61.63
% change year-on-year -46.08% -2.64% +112.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in England.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London +41 224 £525 -6.46% 57
South East -16 43 £475 -9.52% 36
North of England 0 38 £490 -5.77% 27
South West -10 35 £550 -2.65% 13
Yorkshire +28 30 £490 -10.91% 12
East of England +5 12 £375 -25.00% 18
Midlands -14 10 £475 -11.63% 17
North West -20 7 £481 -3.70% 13
West Midlands -9 6 £450 -22.41% 13
East Midlands +15 4 £500 +35.14% 4
North East +9 1 - - 2
Acceptance Criteria
UK

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (6.99%) Confluence
2 6 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.81%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.81%) CMS
4 3 (0.81%) Drupal
5 2 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.27%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.27%) InVision
3 1 (0.27%) Sketch
3 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Trello
3 1 (0.27%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (3.23%) Aligne
2 11 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (2.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (1.88%) SAP PM
5 5 (1.34%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (1.08%) Shopify
7 3 (0.81%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.54%) VisionPLUS
9 1 (0.27%) Endur
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.27%) Softmar
9 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 62 (16.67%) Azure
2 36 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (5.65%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (3.49%) AWS
6 12 (3.23%) Power Automate
7 7 (1.88%) Miro
8 6 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.61%) SaaS
9 5 (1.34%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.08%) BigCommerce
10 4 (1.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 3 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.81%) Figma
11 3 (0.81%) PaaS
12 2 (0.54%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (0.54%) GCP
12 2 (0.54%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 2 (0.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.88%) SSH
2 3 (0.81%) DNS
3 2 (0.54%) DHCP
3 2 (0.54%) Firewall
3 2 (0.54%) HTTP
3 2 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.27%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) LAN
4 1 (0.27%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.27%) SMS
4 1 (0.27%) SSL
4 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.30%) Power BI
2 10 (2.69%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.15%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.88%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.61%) GIS
7 5 (1.34%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.08%) MySQL
8 4 (1.08%) Redis
8 4 (1.08%) SAP HANA
8 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.54%) Big Data
9 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.54%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.54%) Delta Lake
9 2 (0.54%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 43 (11.56%) JIRA
2 17 (4.57%) Postman
2 17 (4.57%) Selenium
3 13 (3.49%) JUnit
4 11 (2.96%) SoapUI
5 9 (2.42%) JMeter
6 8 (2.15%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.88%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.88%) WebDriver
8 6 (1.61%) Appium
8 6 (1.61%) LoadRunner
9 5 (1.34%) Gatling
9 5 (1.34%) Git
10 4 (1.08%) Mockito
10 4 (1.08%) Rational Performance Tester
10 4 (1.08%) ScalaTest
11 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
11 2 (0.54%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.54%) UI Automator
General
1 132 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 82 (22.04%) Finance
3 68 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (5.38%) Back Office
7 12 (3.23%) Banking
8 11 (2.96%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.69%) Retail
10 9 (2.42%) Games
10 9 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.15%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.88%) Marketing
13 6 (1.61%) Front Office
13 6 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.34%) German Language
14 5 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.08%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.81%) Law
16 3 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 148 (39.78%) Analyst
2 111 (29.84%) Business Analyst
3 67 (18.01%) Senior
4 34 (9.14%) Senior Analyst
5 30 (8.06%) Product Owner
6 27 (7.26%) Developer
7 24 (6.45%) Technical Analyst
8 23 (6.18%) Project Manager
8 23 (6.18%) Service Manager
9 21 (5.65%) Service Transition Manager
9 21 (5.65%) Transition Manager
10 20 (5.38%) Consultant
10 20 (5.38%) Senior Business Analyst
11 19 (5.11%) Technical Business Analyst
12 18 (4.84%) Tester
13 16 (4.30%) Lead
13 16 (4.30%) Test Analyst
14 13 (3.49%) Test Leader
15 10 (2.69%) Data Analyst
15 10 (2.69%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.57%) SOAP
2 14 (3.76%) XML
3 13 (3.49%) Web Services
4 11 (2.96%) Hibernate
4 11 (2.96%) JPA
4 11 (2.96%) JSON
4 11 (2.96%) REST
4 11 (2.96%) Spring
5 7 (1.88%) Gherkin
5 7 (1.88%) J2EE
6 6 (1.61%) .NET
6 6 (1.61%) ADO
6 6 (1.61%) RESTful
7 5 (1.34%) Akka
8 4 (1.08%) HTML
8 4 (1.08%) Play Framework
8 4 (1.08%) SAP PI
8 4 (1.08%) spray
8 4 (1.08%) Spring MVC
8 4 (1.08%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (22.31%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.72%) Management Information System
3 21 (5.65%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.42%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (2.42%) Solar Panel
5 8 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.61%) Derivative
8 5 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.08%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.81%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.54%) Cyberattack
11 2 (0.54%) Hackathon
11 2 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.38%) Linux
2 11 (2.96%) Unix
2 11 (2.96%) Windows
3 8 (2.15%) Android
4 3 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (60.22%) Agile
2 192 (51.61%) User Stories
3 89 (23.92%) Scrum
4 83 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (21.51%) Business Analysis
6 58 (15.59%) DevOps
7 56 (15.05%) User Acceptance Testing
8 52 (13.98%) Test Automation
9 40 (10.75%) Product Backlog
9 40 (10.75%) Requirements Gathering
10 37 (9.95%) Project Management
11 36 (9.68%) Epics
12 35 (9.41%) Workshop Facilitation
13 33 (8.87%) Test Scripting
14 32 (8.60%) Scenario Testing
15 31 (8.33%) SDLC
15 31 (8.33%) Software Testing
15 31 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
16 30 (8.06%) Test Strategy
17 29 (7.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (9.41%) SQL
2 30 (8.06%) Java
3 15 (4.03%) Python
4 11 (2.96%) C#
5 8 (2.15%) C
6 7 (1.88%) Kotlin
7 6 (1.61%) C++
7 6 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.61%) Scala
7 6 (1.61%) VB
8 5 (1.34%) Perl
8 5 (1.34%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.08%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.81%) R
11 2 (0.54%) Go
11 2 (0.54%) Swift
12 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (14.25%) Security Cleared
2 39 (10.48%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.41%) Degree
4 10 (2.69%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.88%) CBAP
6 6 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.08%) CSPO
7 4 (1.08%) ISEB
7 4 (1.08%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (0.81%) MBA
8 3 (0.81%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.81%) PMP
9 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.27%) IIBA
9 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (13.71%) QA
2 14 (3.76%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.42%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.42%) WCAG
4 5 (1.34%) ISO 20022
4 5 (1.34%) PMO
5 3 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.81%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.54%) COBIT
6 2 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 9 (2.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.61%) Grafana
2 6 (1.61%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 38 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.53%) SAP
3 10 (2.69%) Adobe
4 8 (2.15%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.15%) ServiceNow
5 6 (1.61%) IBM
6 5 (1.34%) CyberSource
6 5 (1.34%) HP
6 5 (1.34%) SimCorp
7 4 (1.08%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.81%) Dell
8 3 (0.81%) ESRI
8 3 (0.81%) Intel
8 3 (0.81%) Oracle
9 2 (0.54%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.54%) Civica
9 2 (0.54%) Guidewire
9 2 (0.54%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.54%) Murex
10 1 (0.27%) F5