Acceptance Criteria
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 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 488 398 268
Rank change year-on-year -90 -130 +181
Permanent jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 461 813 2,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.82% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.86% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 286 453 1,189
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £38,630
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,549 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -1.65% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Acceptance Criteria in the UK

Acceptance Criteria
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the UK

Acceptance Criteria
Top 16 Job Locations

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -78 413 £59,500 +3.48% 164
UK excluding London -83 289 £50,000 -9.09% 123
Work from Home -40 167 £52,500 -4.55% 77
London -38 157 £78,750 +31.25% 57
North of England +8 76 £47,500 -13.64% 27
South West -3 54 £55,000 - 13
North West -25 52 £47,500 -15.56% 13
Midlands -46 52 £47,500 -5.00% 17
South East -40 48 £60,000 +6.19% 36
East Midlands +4 29 £30,000 -50.00% 4
Yorkshire +81 24 £47,500 -13.64% 12
East of England -4 24 £34,500 -34.29% 18
West Midlands -50 23 £50,000 +2.56% 13
Wales +10 18 £47,500 +26.67% 5
Scotland -63 17 £41,342 -24.83% 12
Northern Ireland +32 2 - -

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 67 (14.53%) Confluence
2 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.65%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.22%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.22%) CMS
3 1 (0.22%) Liferay
3 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
3 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (5.64%) MS Visio
2 16 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (3.25%) Trello
4 8 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
5 6 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.65%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.22%) InVision
8 1 (0.22%) Sketch
8 1 (0.22%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 4 (0.87%) ResourceLink
2 3 (0.65%) SAP CRM
2 3 (0.65%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.22%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 83 (18.00%) Azure
2 53 (11.50%) AWS
3 33 (7.16%) Power Platform
3 33 (7.16%) SaaS
4 30 (6.51%) Miro
5 23 (4.99%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (3.47%) Serverless
7 11 (2.39%) Amazon S3
7 11 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.08%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (1.08%) Azure Pipelines
11 5 (1.08%) BrowserStack
11 5 (1.08%) GitHub
12 4 (0.87%) GCP
12 4 (0.87%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.82%) HTTP
2 12 (2.60%) Internet
3 10 (2.17%) Broadband
3 10 (2.17%) WPA
4 2 (0.43%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.43%) DSL
4 2 (0.43%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.43%) SSH
4 2 (0.43%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.43%) VPN
4 2 (0.43%) Wireless
5 1 (0.22%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.51%) Power BI
2 18 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 17 (3.69%) Relational Database
4 15 (3.25%) Tableau
5 12 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.60%) GIS
6 11 (2.39%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.17%) Big Data
7 10 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
8 9 (1.95%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.74%) HDInsight
10 6 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (1.30%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.08%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (0.87%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.87%) Looker
12 4 (0.87%) QlikView
13 3 (0.65%) Apache Hive
13 3 (0.65%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 124 (26.90%) JIRA
2 28 (6.07%) Git
3 21 (4.56%) Postman
4 18 (3.90%) Cypress.io
5 16 (3.47%) Selenium
6 11 (2.39%) Cucumber
6 11 (2.39%) SpecFlow
7 9 (1.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (1.08%) JMeter
8 5 (1.08%) MSTest
8 5 (1.08%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.08%) Visual Studio Team System
8 5 (1.08%) WebDriver
9 4 (0.87%) GitLab
10 3 (0.65%) JUnit
11 2 (0.43%) Appium
11 2 (0.43%) Burp Suite
11 2 (0.43%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.43%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.22%) Jenkins
General
1 150 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 118 (25.60%) Analytical Skills
3 91 (19.74%) Finance
4 51 (11.06%) Retail
5 47 (10.20%) Marketing
6 45 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 18 (3.90%) Public Sector
8 13 (2.82%) Law
9 11 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.17%) Games
11 9 (1.95%) Legal
12 7 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.30%) Advertising
13 6 (1.30%) Banking
13 6 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.08%) Automotive
14 5 (1.08%) Health Technology
14 5 (1.08%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 140 (30.37%) Analyst
2 107 (23.21%) Business Analyst
3 77 (16.70%) Senior
4 73 (15.84%) Product Manager
5 67 (14.53%) Product Owner
6 42 (9.11%) Senior Analyst
6 42 (9.11%) Senior Business Analyst
7 26 (5.64%) Developer
8 21 (4.56%) Tester
9 19 (4.12%) Software Engineer
10 18 (3.90%) Lead
10 18 (3.90%) Research Analyst
11 16 (3.47%) QA Engineer
12 13 (2.82%) Technical Business Analyst
12 13 (2.82%) Technical Product Owner
13 12 (2.60%) Project Manager
14 10 (2.17%) Data Manager
14 10 (2.17%) Digital Product Owner
14 10 (2.17%) Senior Manager
14 10 (2.17%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.89%) .NET
2 21 (4.56%) JSON
2 21 (4.56%) REST
3 20 (4.34%) Lightning Web Components
4 19 (4.12%) CSS
5 18 (3.90%) HTML
6 15 (3.25%) XML
7 13 (2.82%) .NET Core
7 13 (2.82%) Web Services
8 10 (2.17%) React
9 9 (1.95%) Node.js
9 9 (1.95%) RESTful
9 9 (1.95%) Vue
10 7 (1.52%) .NET Framework
10 7 (1.52%) HTML5
11 6 (1.30%) Blazor
12 5 (1.08%) ASP.NET
12 5 (1.08%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (1.08%) Middleware
12 5 (1.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 147 (31.89%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.07%) NHS
3 24 (5.21%) Management Information System
4 18 (3.90%) Life Science
5 15 (3.25%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.82%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.52%) Market Risk
11 6 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.08%) PMI
12 5 (1.08%) Replication
13 4 (0.87%) Derivative
13 4 (0.87%) FMCG
13 4 (0.87%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.17%) Windows
2 9 (1.95%) Android
2 9 (1.95%) Apple iOS
2 9 (1.95%) Linux
3 2 (0.43%) Unix
4 1 (0.22%) AIX
4 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (65.94%) Agile
2 252 (54.66%) User Stories
3 146 (31.67%) Scrum
4 143 (31.02%) Roadmaps
5 102 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (20.17%) Product Roadmap
7 86 (18.66%) Epics
8 82 (17.79%) Product Backlog
9 76 (16.49%) Business Analysis
10 71 (15.40%) Backlog Refinement
10 71 (15.40%) Test Automation
11 68 (14.75%) Backlog Management
12 67 (14.53%) Project Management
13 66 (14.32%) Product Vision
13 66 (14.32%) Requirements Gathering
14 64 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 63 (13.67%) User Experience
16 59 (12.80%) Product Strategy
17 56 (12.15%) Product Management
18 51 (11.06%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 78 (16.92%) SQL
2 43 (9.33%) C#
3 41 (8.89%) JavaScript
4 28 (6.07%) Python
5 24 (5.21%) TypeScript
6 11 (2.39%) R
7 10 (2.17%) Java
8 9 (1.95%) Apex Code
9 8 (1.74%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.08%) C++
11 4 (0.87%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.43%) Bash
12 2 (0.43%) Perl
12 2 (0.43%) Tcl
12 2 (0.43%) VB
13 1 (0.22%) Bicep
13 1 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 111 (24.08%) Degree
2 50 (10.85%) Security Cleared
3 31 (6.72%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.82%) CSPO
5 12 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.52%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.30%) IIBA
8 6 (1.30%) ISEB
8 6 (1.30%) PMP
9 5 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.08%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.87%) MBA
11 3 (0.65%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.43%) CAPM
12 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (18.66%) QA
2 18 (3.90%) GLP
3 10 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.74%) GDPR
5 7 (1.52%) PMO
6 6 (1.30%) IEC 62304
7 5 (1.08%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.43%) SLA
10 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (0.87%) Docker
2 2 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (1.08%) Grafana
1 5 (1.08%) Kibana
1 5 (1.08%) Terraform
2 3 (0.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (8.68%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.72%) Salesforce
3 9 (1.95%) Databricks
4 8 (1.74%) Xero
5 4 (0.87%) SAP
6 3 (0.65%) Adobe
6 3 (0.65%) Cadence
7 2 (0.43%) Apple
7 2 (0.43%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.43%) Cisco
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle
7 2 (0.43%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.22%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.22%) Marketo
8 1 (0.22%) Mercator
8 1 (0.22%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.22%) Sophis
8 1 (0.22%) Splunk
8 1 (0.22%) Symantec
8 1 (0.22%) VMware