Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the South West

Acceptance Criteria
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 119 114 139
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 -31
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 35 53 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.10% 1.55% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.73% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 45 18
10th Percentile £73 £476 £393
25th Percentile £505 £549 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +7.11% +5.50%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £584
90th Percentile £613 £627 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -7.27% +8.91% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £42.00
England median hourly rate £32.36 £60.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year -46.08% -5.14% +118.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,617 3,064 3,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.56% 89.54% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 2,236 2,299
10th Percentile £223 £313 £300
25th Percentile £404 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.43%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 316 208
10th Percentile £13.90 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.19 £21.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +22.88% +10.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.74 £69.26
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the South West over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Somerset +6 10 £600 -7.69% 2
Wiltshire -22 10 £520 -6.73% 2
Bristol +15 8 £570 -2.56% 1
Devon - 3 £61 - 6
Gloucestershire - 2 £463 - 2
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England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) Dynamics 365
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (11.43%) Power Automate
1 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
1 4 (11.43%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
2 2 (5.71%) JMeter
2 2 (5.71%) LoadRunner
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Law
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Senior
2 7 (20.00%) Requirements Manager
3 6 (17.14%) Service Manager
3 6 (17.14%) Service Transition Manager
3 6 (17.14%) Transition Manager
4 5 (14.29%) Developer
4 5 (14.29%) QA Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Power Platform Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Project Manager
5 4 (11.43%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.57%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Digital Project Manager
7 2 (5.71%) IT Services Manager
7 2 (5.71%) Performance Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) QA Tester
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Derivative
3 1 (2.86%) Hackathon
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Agile
2 10 (28.57%) Change Management
2 10 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 9 (25.71%) User Stories
4 7 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 7 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 6 (17.14%) ITIL
6 5 (14.29%) Critical Path Analysis
6 5 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (14.29%) Scrum
6 5 (14.29%) Service Management
6 5 (14.29%) Work Breakdown Structure
7 4 (11.43%) SFIA
7 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (8.57%) ITSM
8 3 (8.57%) Use Case
9 2 (5.71%) Black-Box Testing
9 2 (5.71%) Performance Engineering
9 2 (5.71%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) SQL
2 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) ISO 9001
3 2 (5.71%) COBIT
3 2 (5.71%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (2.86%) PMO
Vendors
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Salesforce