Acceptance Criteria Contracts in England

Acceptance Criteria
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Acceptance Criteria over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 229 213
Rank change year-on-year -6 -16 +35
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 375 543 986
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.00% 1.15% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.28% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 373 602
10th Percentile £363 £400 £380
25th Percentile £416 £451 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £549 £505
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +8.71% +6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £549 £500
% change year-on-year -8.01% +9.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 27
10th Percentile £29.92 £50.68 £42.00
25th Percentile £31.71 £56.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £33.07 £62.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.66% -1.98% +118.10%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.20 £81.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £62.00 £63.25
% change year-on-year -46.66% -1.98% +118.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Acceptance Criteria falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in England

Acceptance Criteria
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +40 229 £534 -2.91% 32
South East -15 43 £475 -9.52% 14
North of England -17 36 £480 -4.00% 19
South West -2 35 £550 -2.00% 15
Yorkshire +20 26 £485 -13.78% 5
East of England +2 13 £375 -25.00% 7
Midlands -16 9 £466 -11.19% 8
North West -24 7 £481 -3.22% 11
West Midlands -14 6 £454 -17.50% 6
North East +7 3 £440 -7.37% 3
East Midlands +6 3 £500 +35.14% 2
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 27 (7.20%) Confluence
2 6 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (1.07%) CMS
4 4 (1.07%) Drupal
5 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.53%) LiveLink
5 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.27%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.27%) Camunda
6 1 (0.27%) IIS
6 1 (0.27%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.80%) Trello
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.20%) Aligne
2 10 (2.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.60%) SAP PM
5 5 (1.33%) SimCorp Dimension
6 4 (1.07%) Shopify
7 3 (0.80%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.53%) VisionPLUS
9 1 (0.27%) Advent Geneva
9 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.27%) Endur
9 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.27%) Softmar
9 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (16.27%) Azure
2 36 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (5.87%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (3.47%) AWS
6 12 (3.20%) Power Automate
7 7 (1.87%) Miro
8 6 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.60%) SaaS
9 5 (1.33%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.07%) BigCommerce
10 4 (1.07%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 3 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (0.80%) PaaS
12 2 (0.53%) Adobe Analytics
12 2 (0.53%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.53%) Figma
12 2 (0.53%) GCP
12 2 (0.53%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 2 (0.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.40%) SSH
2 3 (0.80%) DNS
3 2 (0.53%) DHCP
3 2 (0.53%) Firewall
3 2 (0.53%) HTTP
3 2 (0.53%) Network Security
3 2 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.27%) FTP
4 1 (0.27%) GSM
4 1 (0.27%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.27%) SMS
4 1 (0.27%) SSL
4 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.53%) Power BI
2 10 (2.67%) NoSQL
3 9 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (1.87%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.87%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.33%) GIS
6 4 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (1.07%) Geospatial Data
6 4 (1.07%) MySQL
6 4 (1.07%) Redis
6 4 (1.07%) SAP HANA
6 4 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.53%) Big Data
7 2 (0.53%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.53%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.53%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.27%) EDRMS
8 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (12.27%) JIRA
2 18 (4.80%) Postman
3 16 (4.27%) JUnit
3 16 (4.27%) Selenium
4 12 (3.20%) SoapUI
5 10 (2.67%) Cucumber
5 10 (2.67%) JMeter
6 8 (2.13%) LoadRunner
7 7 (1.87%) Visual Studio
7 7 (1.87%) WebDriver
8 5 (1.33%) Appium
8 5 (1.33%) Gatling
9 4 (1.07%) Git
9 4 (1.07%) Mockito
9 4 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (1.07%) Rational Performance Tester
9 4 (1.07%) ScalaTest
10 2 (0.53%) ClearQuest
10 2 (0.53%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 137 (36.53%) Social Skills
2 93 (24.80%) Finance
3 72 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.47%) Presentation Skills
6 21 (5.60%) Back Office
7 18 (4.80%) Banking
8 14 (3.73%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.40%) Retail
11 8 (2.13%) Front Office
11 8 (2.13%) Games
11 8 (2.13%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.87%) Marketing
12 7 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.33%) German Language
14 4 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.07%) Local Government
14 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.80%) Billing
Job Titles
1 158 (42.13%) Analyst
2 119 (31.73%) Business Analyst
3 71 (18.93%) Senior
4 38 (10.13%) Senior Analyst
5 29 (7.73%) Developer
6 27 (7.20%) Product Owner
6 27 (7.20%) Technical Analyst
7 23 (6.13%) Consultant
8 22 (5.87%) Senior Business Analyst
8 22 (5.87%) Technical Business Analyst
9 20 (5.33%) Project Manager
10 18 (4.80%) Service Manager
10 18 (4.80%) Tester
11 16 (4.27%) Lead
11 16 (4.27%) Test Analyst
12 15 (4.00%) Service Transition Manager
12 15 (4.00%) Transition Manager
13 12 (3.20%) Test Leader
14 10 (2.67%) Financial Analyst
14 10 (2.67%) Insurance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.07%) SOAP
2 15 (4.00%) Web Services
2 15 (4.00%) XML
3 13 (3.47%) Hibernate
3 13 (3.47%) JPA
3 13 (3.47%) Spring
4 12 (3.20%) JSON
4 12 (3.20%) REST
5 9 (2.40%) J2EE
6 8 (2.13%) Gherkin
7 6 (1.60%) ADO
8 5 (1.33%) .NET
8 5 (1.33%) Akka
8 5 (1.33%) RESTful
9 4 (1.07%) HTML
9 4 (1.07%) Play Framework
9 4 (1.07%) SAP PI
9 4 (1.07%) spray
9 4 (1.07%) Spring MVC
9 4 (1.07%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (21.60%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.87%) Management Information System
3 21 (5.60%) Mobile App
4 9 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
4 9 (2.40%) Solar Panel
5 7 (1.87%) Algorithms
5 7 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 6 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.33%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.07%) Derivative
8 4 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.80%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.80%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.53%) Freedom of Information Act
10 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.53%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.13%) Linux
2 13 (3.47%) Unix
3 9 (2.40%) Windows
4 7 (1.87%) Android
5 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (60.80%) Agile
2 198 (52.80%) User Stories
3 93 (24.80%) Scrum
4 88 (23.47%) Business Analysis
5 83 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (16.27%) User Acceptance Testing
7 58 (15.47%) DevOps
8 51 (13.60%) Test Automation
9 40 (10.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 40 (10.67%) Workshop Facilitation
10 38 (10.13%) Project Management
11 37 (9.87%) Test Strategy
12 36 (9.60%) Epics
13 35 (9.33%) Product Backlog
14 33 (8.80%) Scenario Testing
15 32 (8.53%) SDLC
15 32 (8.53%) Software Testing
16 31 (8.27%) Migration
16 31 (8.27%) Test Scripting
17 30 (8.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 39 (10.40%) SQL
2 32 (8.53%) Java
3 16 (4.27%) Python
4 10 (2.67%) C#
5 9 (2.40%) C
6 7 (1.87%) C++
7 6 (1.60%) Kotlin
7 6 (1.60%) Perl
7 6 (1.60%) Scala
7 6 (1.60%) VB
8 5 (1.33%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.07%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.07%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.80%) R
11 2 (0.53%) Go
12 1 (0.27%) ABAP
12 1 (0.27%) Swift
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (14.13%) Security Cleared
2 40 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.53%) Degree
4 9 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 7 (1.87%) CBAP
6 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.07%) CSPO
7 4 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.80%) ISEB
8 3 (0.80%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.80%) MBA
8 3 (0.80%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.80%) PMP
9 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.27%) IIBA
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (13.60%) QA
2 13 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.40%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.87%) WCAG
5 5 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.33%) PMO
6 3 (0.80%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.27%) COBIT
8 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (2.13%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 9 (2.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.60%) Grafana
2 6 (1.60%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 39 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.20%) SAP
3 9 (2.40%) Adobe
4 8 (2.13%) IBM
5 7 (1.87%) Salesforce
5 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.33%) CyberSource
6 5 (1.33%) HP
6 5 (1.33%) SimCorp
7 4 (1.07%) Sitecore
8 3 (0.80%) Dell
8 3 (0.80%) Guidewire
8 3 (0.80%) Intel
8 3 (0.80%) Oracle
9 2 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.53%) Civica
9 2 (0.53%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.53%) ESRI
9 2 (0.53%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.27%) Brio