Acceptance Criteria Contracts in the Midlands

Acceptance Criteria
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 117 128
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 9 41 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.32% 1.25% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.43% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 63
10th Percentile £398 £370 £380
25th Percentile £442 £450 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £538 £460
Median % change year-on-year -13.26% +16.85% +15.00%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £581
90th Percentile £553 £694 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -7.27% +8.91% +6.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 2,867 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.41% 87.68% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 2,015 3,259
10th Percentile £231 £263 £250
25th Percentile £358 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 135
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Acceptance Criteria in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Acceptance Criteria in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Acceptance Criteria in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Acceptance Criteria in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Midlands -16 6 £454 -19.33% 9
East Midlands +9 3 £500 +35.14% 3
Acceptance Criteria
England

Acceptance Criteria
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
1 1 (11.11%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Appium
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) UI Automator
1 1 (11.11%) XCUITest
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Service Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Service Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Service Design Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Service Management
2 3 (33.33%) User Experience
2 3 (33.33%) User Stories
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Logistics
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Service Design
3 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
4 1 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Science
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) Epics
4 1 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Product Backlog
4 1 (11.11%) Sprint Review
4 1 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Kotlin
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) CBAP
1 1 (11.11%) IIBA
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Ariba
1 1 (11.11%) Guidewire
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) SAP
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow