Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 240 194 178
Rank change year-on-year -46 -16 +70
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 156 292 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.28% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.43% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 218 287
10th Percentile £363 £388 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £549 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.75% +15.58% +8.57%
75th Percentile £570 £601 £550
90th Percentile £594 £650 £644
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -8.18% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 21
10th Percentile £26.98 £43.05 £42.00
25th Percentile £33.31 £47.63 £53.00
Median hourly rate £44.25 £55.25 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.91% -12.65% +134.43%
75th Percentile £54.81 £57.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £60.93 £59.05 £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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,047 20,460 27,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.14% 89.36% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,194 14,069 18,950
10th Percentile £250 £260 £237
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £482
Median % change year-on-year - +3.73% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,072 1,252 1,360
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.29 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Acceptance Criteria as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
South East -24 43 £475 -9.52% 27
North of England +7 39 £490 -5.77% 26
South West -6 35 £550 -2.65% 13
Yorkshire +25 31 £490 -10.91% 9
Scotland +33 17 £463 -11.90% 11
East of England +3 12 £375 -25.00% 17
Midlands -6 10 £458 -14.88% 13
West Midlands -5 7 £450 -22.41% 10
North West -16 7 £481 -3.70% 15
East Midlands +5 3 £500 +35.14% 3
North East +7 1 - - 2
Acceptance Criteria
UK

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (3.21%) Confluence
1 5 (3.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.92%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.64%) LiveLink
Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.49%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.28%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (1.28%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (9.62%) Azure
2 10 (6.41%) Power Platform
3 7 (4.49%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.56%) AWS
5 4 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.56%) Power Automate
5 4 (2.56%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.28%) SaaS
8 1 (0.64%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.28%) HTTP
2 1 (0.64%) SMS
2 1 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (3.85%) Power BI
2 4 (2.56%) Geospatial Data
2 4 (2.56%) MySQL
2 4 (2.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (1.92%) GIS
4 2 (1.28%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.64%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (9.62%) JIRA
2 8 (5.13%) JMeter
2 8 (5.13%) Selenium
3 7 (4.49%) JUnit
4 2 (1.28%) Appium
4 2 (1.28%) Git
4 2 (1.28%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.28%) REST Assured
4 2 (1.28%) UI Automator
4 2 (1.28%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.64%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (12.82%) Public Sector
4 19 (12.18%) Finance
5 8 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 6 (3.85%) Games
7 5 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.56%) Banking
8 4 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.92%) Law
9 3 (1.92%) Marketing
9 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.28%) Automotive
10 2 (1.28%) Billing
10 2 (1.28%) German Language
10 2 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.28%) Retail
11 1 (0.64%) Legal
11 1 (0.64%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (34.62%) Analyst
2 41 (26.28%) Business Analyst
3 31 (19.87%) Senior
4 14 (8.97%) Senior Analyst
5 13 (8.33%) Developer
6 12 (7.69%) Lead
6 12 (7.69%) Service Manager
7 10 (6.41%) Senior Business Analyst
7 10 (6.41%) Service Transition Manager
7 10 (6.41%) Test Leader
7 10 (6.41%) Transition Manager
8 9 (5.77%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.13%) Project Manager
9 8 (5.13%) Tester
10 7 (4.49%) Product Owner
10 7 (4.49%) Requirements Manager
11 6 (3.85%) Digital Analyst
11 6 (3.85%) SAP Analyst
11 6 (3.85%) SAP Business Analyst
11 6 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.49%) Gherkin
2 3 (1.92%) HTML
2 3 (1.92%) JSON
2 3 (1.92%) RESTful
2 3 (1.92%) XML
3 2 (1.28%) .NET
3 2 (1.28%) Kafka
3 2 (1.28%) REST
3 2 (1.28%) Web Services
4 1 (0.64%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.64%) Akka
4 1 (0.64%) BAPI
4 1 (0.64%) CSS
4 1 (0.64%) Express.js
4 1 (0.64%) React
4 1 (0.64%) SAP ALE
4 1 (0.64%) Sass
4 1 (0.64%) SOAP
4 1 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.59%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.21%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.28%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.28%) Equities
5 2 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.28%) NHS
5 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.28%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.64%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.64%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.64%) Derivative
6 1 (0.64%) EPoS
6 1 (0.64%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.64%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.64%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.64%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.21%) Linux
2 2 (1.28%) Android
2 2 (1.28%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (55.77%) Agile
2 67 (42.95%) User Stories
3 40 (25.64%) Scrum
4 38 (24.36%) Business Analysis
5 36 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (16.67%) Test Scripting
7 23 (14.74%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (13.46%) Project Management
9 20 (12.82%) Test Automation
10 19 (12.18%) Requirements Gathering
11 18 (11.54%) Test Strategy
12 17 (10.90%) Project Delivery
12 17 (10.90%) SDLC
12 17 (10.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (8.97%) Change Management
13 14 (8.97%) DevOps
13 14 (8.97%) Kanban
13 14 (8.97%) Use Case
14 13 (8.33%) Software Testing
14 13 (8.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.26%) Java
2 14 (8.97%) SQL
3 6 (3.85%) VB
4 5 (3.21%) C
4 5 (3.21%) C++
4 5 (3.21%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (2.56%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.92%) C#
6 3 (1.92%) Python
7 2 (1.28%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.28%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.28%) Swift
8 1 (0.64%) ABAP
8 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.64%) R
8 1 (0.64%) Scala
8 1 (0.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.33%) Degree
4 9 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.21%) CBAP
5 5 (3.21%) ISEB
6 3 (1.92%) CSPO
6 3 (1.92%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.28%) IIBA
7 2 (1.28%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.23%) QA
2 8 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.85%) PMO
3 6 (3.85%) WCAG
4 3 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.92%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.28%) COBIT
5 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.28%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.64%) NCSC
6 1 (0.64%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.92%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.64%) Grafana
2 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.33%) SAP
3 5 (3.21%) Adobe
4 4 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.92%) ESRI
6 1 (0.64%) Ariba
6 1 (0.64%) Brio
6 1 (0.64%) Google
6 1 (0.64%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.64%) IBM
6 1 (0.64%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.64%) Oracle
6 1 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.64%) Xamarin