Acceptance Criteria Jobs in England

Acceptance Criteria
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Acceptance Criteria skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 458 390 291
Rank change year-on-year -68 -99 +138
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 414 740 1,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.84% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.88% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 268 393 1,026
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,800 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £56,549 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.68% -1.65% +9.52%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,974 83,734 131,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.66% 95.60% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 54,131 49,663 73,196
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Acceptance Criteria within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -33 158 £80,000 +33.33% 58
North of England +11 76 £47,500 -13.64% 25
South West +6 54 £55,000 - 17
North West -23 52 £47,500 -13.64% 14
Midlands -48 52 £47,500 -3.06% 13
South East -40 48 £60,000 - 37
East Midlands +17 29 £30,000 - 3
Yorkshire +82 24 £47,500 -13.64% 9
East of England -2 24 £34,500 -34.29% 19
West Midlands -54 23 £50,000 +2.04% 10
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 51 (12.32%) Confluence
2 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.72%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.24%) CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Liferay
3 1 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.86%) MS Visio
2 15 (3.62%) Trello
3 12 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.72%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.24%) InVision
8 1 (0.24%) Sketch
8 1 (0.24%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.97%) ResourceLink
2 3 (0.72%) SAP CRM
2 3 (0.72%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 71 (17.15%) Azure
2 53 (12.80%) AWS
3 33 (7.97%) Power Platform
4 21 (5.07%) Miro
4 21 (5.07%) SaaS
5 16 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (3.86%) Serverless
6 11 (2.66%) Amazon S3
6 11 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.21%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (1.21%) Azure Pipelines
10 5 (1.21%) BrowserStack
10 5 (1.21%) GitHub
11 4 (0.97%) GCP
11 4 (0.97%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.14%) HTTP
2 12 (2.90%) Internet
3 10 (2.42%) Broadband
3 10 (2.42%) WPA
4 3 (0.72%) SSH
5 2 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.48%) DSL
5 2 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.48%) VPN
5 2 (0.48%) Wireless
6 1 (0.24%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.25%) Power BI
2 18 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 17 (4.11%) Relational Database
4 15 (3.62%) Tableau
5 12 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.90%) GIS
6 11 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.42%) Big Data
7 10 (2.42%) Geospatial Data
8 9 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.93%) HDInsight
10 6 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (1.45%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.21%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.97%) Looker
12 4 (0.97%) QlikView
13 3 (0.72%) Apache Hive
13 3 (0.72%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 105 (25.36%) JIRA
2 21 (5.07%) Git
3 12 (2.90%) Cucumber
3 12 (2.90%) Postman
4 11 (2.66%) Cypress.io
4 11 (2.66%) Selenium
5 10 (2.42%) SpecFlow
6 5 (1.21%) JMeter
6 5 (1.21%) MSTest
6 5 (1.21%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.97%) GitLab
7 4 (0.97%) JUnit
7 4 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.97%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.48%) Appium
8 2 (0.48%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.48%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.48%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.24%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 135 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 109 (26.33%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (21.01%) Finance
4 47 (11.35%) Retail
5 39 (9.42%) Marketing
6 37 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 13 (3.14%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.42%) Games
10 9 (2.17%) Legal
10 9 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.45%) Advertising
12 6 (1.45%) Banking
12 6 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.21%) Automotive
13 5 (1.21%) Health Technology
13 5 (1.21%) Law
13 5 (1.21%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 115 (27.78%) Analyst
2 82 (19.81%) Business Analyst
3 74 (17.87%) Product Manager
4 64 (15.46%) Product Owner
5 58 (14.01%) Senior
6 30 (7.25%) Senior Analyst
6 30 (7.25%) Senior Business Analyst
7 19 (4.59%) Developer
7 19 (4.59%) Software Engineer
8 18 (4.35%) Research Analyst
9 17 (4.11%) Lead
10 14 (3.38%) Technical Product Owner
11 13 (3.14%) Technical Business Analyst
11 13 (3.14%) Tester
12 12 (2.90%) Project Manager
12 12 (2.90%) QA Engineer
13 10 (2.42%) Data Manager
13 10 (2.42%) Digital Product Owner
13 10 (2.42%) Senior Manager
13 10 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.21%) .NET
2 22 (5.31%) REST
3 21 (5.07%) JSON
4 20 (4.83%) Lightning Web Components
5 16 (3.86%) XML
6 14 (3.38%) CSS
7 13 (3.14%) HTML
8 10 (2.42%) React
8 10 (2.42%) Web Services
9 9 (2.17%) Node.js
10 8 (1.93%) RESTful
11 7 (1.69%) .NET Framework
12 6 (1.45%) .NET Core
12 6 (1.45%) Blazor
13 5 (1.21%) ASP.NET
13 5 (1.21%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (1.21%) Middleware
13 5 (1.21%) Next.js
13 5 (1.21%) Spring
13 5 (1.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 138 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.28%) NHS
3 24 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 18 (4.35%) Life Science
5 13 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.90%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.66%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.66%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (1.45%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.21%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.21%) Derivative
11 5 (1.21%) PMI
12 4 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.97%) Media Streaming
12 4 (0.97%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.42%) Linux
2 6 (1.45%) Windows
3 5 (1.21%) Android
3 5 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.72%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) AIX
5 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (64.73%) Agile
2 229 (55.31%) User Stories
3 133 (32.13%) Roadmaps
4 127 (30.68%) Scrum
5 93 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
7 79 (19.08%) Product Backlog
8 65 (15.70%) Product Vision
9 64 (15.46%) Backlog Management
10 63 (15.22%) Backlog Refinement
10 63 (15.22%) Epics
11 61 (14.73%) User Experience
12 60 (14.49%) Product Strategy
13 58 (14.01%) Project Management
13 58 (14.01%) Requirements Gathering
14 57 (13.77%) Business Analysis
14 57 (13.77%) Product Management
15 52 (12.56%) Test Automation
16 48 (11.59%) Market Research
17 47 (11.35%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 68 (16.43%) SQL
2 34 (8.21%) C#
3 27 (6.52%) JavaScript
4 26 (6.28%) Python
5 15 (3.62%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.66%) Java
6 11 (2.66%) R
7 9 (2.17%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.93%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.97%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.72%) Perl
11 2 (0.48%) Bash
11 2 (0.48%) Tcl
11 2 (0.48%) VB
12 1 (0.24%) Bicep
12 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 95 (22.95%) Degree
2 37 (8.94%) Security Cleared
3 18 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.38%) CSPO
5 11 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.42%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.42%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.45%) IIBA
7 6 (1.45%) ISTQB
7 6 (1.45%) PMP
8 5 (1.21%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.21%) ISEB
8 5 (1.21%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (0.97%) MBA
10 3 (0.72%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.48%) CAPM
11 2 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.48%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (18.12%) QA
2 18 (4.35%) GLP
3 8 (1.93%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.93%) GDPR
4 7 (1.69%) PMO
5 6 (1.45%) IEC 62304
6 5 (1.21%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.48%) SLA
9 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (0.97%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.21%) Grafana
1 5 (1.21%) Kibana
1 5 (1.21%) Terraform
2 3 (0.72%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (7.49%) Microsoft
1 31 (7.49%) Salesforce
2 9 (2.17%) Databricks
3 8 (1.93%) Xero
4 4 (0.97%) SAP
5 3 (0.72%) Adobe
5 3 (0.72%) Cadence
6 2 (0.48%) Apple
6 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.48%) Cisco
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle
6 2 (0.48%) Sophis
6 2 (0.48%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.24%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.24%) Marketo
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.24%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.24%) Splunk
7 1 (0.24%) Symantec
7 1 (0.24%) VMware