Acceptance Criteria Jobs in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 498 426 265
Rank change year-on-year -72 -161 +142
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 288 391 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.67% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.70% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 163 215 597
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £68,750 £68,750
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
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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,251 56,179 68,558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.03% 95.60% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 41,534 28,920 41,183
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the UK excluding London

Acceptance Criteria
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Acceptance Criteria within the UK excluding London 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
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% 12
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% 9
Wales +8 17 £50,000 +33.33% 5
Scotland -55 17 £41,342 -24.83% 11
Northern Ireland +28 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 50 (17.36%) Confluence
2 1 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.35%) Liferay
Applications
1 21 (7.29%) MS Visio
2 15 (5.21%) Trello
3 10 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.35%) InVision
6 1 (0.35%) Sketch
6 1 (0.35%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (1.39%) ResourceLink
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 42 (14.58%) Azure
2 26 (9.03%) AWS
3 25 (8.68%) Miro
4 19 (6.60%) Power Platform
5 16 (5.56%) SaaS
6 14 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (4.51%) Serverless
8 11 (3.82%) Amazon S3
8 11 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (1.74%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (1.74%) Azure Pipelines
9 5 (1.74%) BrowserStack
9 5 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.04%) GitHub
11 2 (0.69%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.35%) Collibra
12 1 (0.35%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.51%) HTTP
2 12 (4.17%) Internet
3 10 (3.47%) Broadband
3 10 (3.47%) WPA
4 2 (0.69%) DSL
4 2 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.60%) Power BI
2 13 (4.51%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.47%) Tableau
4 9 (3.13%) GIS
5 8 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 7 (2.43%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.08%) Big Data
7 6 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (2.08%) Star Schema
8 5 (1.74%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.69%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.35%) Apache Accumulo
11 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 96 (33.33%) JIRA
2 16 (5.56%) Git
3 15 (5.21%) Postman
4 10 (3.47%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.13%) Selenium
6 7 (2.43%) SpecFlow
7 6 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (1.74%) JMeter
8 5 (1.74%) MSTest
9 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.69%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.69%) GitLab
11 2 (0.69%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.69%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.35%) Axure RP
12 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Coded UI
12 1 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (30.21%) Social Skills
2 66 (22.92%) Finance
3 62 (21.53%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (14.24%) Retail
5 39 (13.54%) Marketing
6 36 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (5.21%) Public Sector
9 11 (3.82%) Law
10 8 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.43%) Games
12 6 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.74%) Automotive
13 5 (1.74%) Retail Finance
14 3 (1.04%) Back Office
14 3 (1.04%) Legal
14 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 115 (39.93%) Analyst
2 87 (30.21%) Business Analyst
3 53 (18.40%) Senior
4 45 (15.63%) Product Manager
5 35 (12.15%) Senior Analyst
5 35 (12.15%) Senior Business Analyst
6 23 (7.99%) Product Owner
7 18 (6.25%) Research Analyst
8 17 (5.90%) Tester
9 12 (4.17%) Developer
9 12 (4.17%) Technical Business Analyst
10 11 (3.82%) Lead
10 11 (3.82%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.47%) Technical Analyst
12 9 (3.13%) QA Engineer
12 9 (3.13%) Senior Manager
12 9 (3.13%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.13%) Software Tester
13 7 (2.43%) Market Risk Business Analyst
13 7 (2.43%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.64%) .NET
2 19 (6.60%) JSON
2 19 (6.60%) Lightning Web Components
3 18 (6.25%) REST
4 14 (4.86%) HTML
5 12 (4.17%) CSS
6 9 (3.13%) .NET Core
6 9 (3.13%) XML
7 8 (2.78%) RESTful
8 7 (2.43%) Web Services
9 5 (1.74%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.74%) ASP.NET
9 5 (1.74%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (1.74%) Blazor
10 4 (1.39%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.39%) HTML5
10 4 (1.39%) Swagger
11 3 (1.04%) Gherkin
11 3 (1.04%) React
12 2 (0.69%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 74 (25.69%) Product Ownership
2 25 (8.68%) NHS
3 18 (6.25%) Life Science
4 17 (5.90%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.47%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.78%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.43%) Market Risk
9 6 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.74%) PMI
10 5 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.39%) FMCG
12 3 (1.04%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.04%) Derivative
13 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.69%) Hedge funds
13 2 (0.69%) Operational Technology
13 2 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
14 1 (0.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.74%) Android
1 5 (1.74%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.39%) Linux
3 3 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (64.24%) Agile
2 152 (52.78%) User Stories
3 78 (27.08%) Roadmaps
4 75 (26.04%) Scrum
5 55 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (17.71%) Project Management
8 50 (17.36%) Requirements Gathering
9 49 (17.01%) Business Analysis
10 47 (16.32%) Epics
10 47 (16.32%) Test Automation
11 39 (13.54%) Product Roadmap
11 39 (13.54%) User Experience
12 38 (13.19%) Product Strategy
13 37 (12.85%) Product Backlog
14 36 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
15 35 (12.15%) DevOps
16 33 (11.46%) Backlog Refinement
17 32 (11.11%) Product Vision
17 32 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.85%) SQL
2 26 (9.03%) JavaScript
3 23 (7.99%) C#
4 14 (4.86%) Python
5 9 (3.13%) Apex Code
6 8 (2.78%) R
6 8 (2.78%) T-SQL
7 6 (2.08%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.74%) Java
9 2 (0.69%) Bash
9 2 (0.69%) C++
9 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.69%) Tcl
9 2 (0.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 88 (30.56%) Degree
2 39 (13.54%) Security Cleared
3 22 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.43%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.08%) IIBA
8 5 (1.74%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.39%) ISEB
10 3 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.04%) PMP
11 2 (0.69%) CAPM
11 2 (0.69%) CSPO
11 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.69%) MBA
12 1 (0.35%) CBAP
12 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (21.88%) QA
2 18 (6.25%) GLP
3 6 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.08%) IEC 62304
3 6 (2.08%) PMO
4 2 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (0.69%) Docker
1 2 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.74%) Grafana
1 5 (1.74%) Kibana
2 3 (1.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 22 (7.64%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.04%) Cadence
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe
4 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.35%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle