Scenario Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Scenario Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 154 162
Rank change year-on-year +36 +8 -18
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 20 12 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 0.35% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.39% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 31
10th Percentile £278 £330 £363
25th Percentile £331 £361 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -11.76% +21.43%
75th Percentile £373 £409 £481
90th Percentile £410 £535 £588
England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Scenario Testing 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 2,263 3,046 4,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.26% 88.47% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,509 2,126 3,289
10th Percentile £235 £250 £249
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 151
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.00
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.05
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
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 Scenario Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
East Midlands +27 15 £363 -3.33% 6
West Midlands +31 5 £344 -47.12% 5
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
2 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (10.00%) TestNG
3 1 (5.00%) Postman
3 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Analyst
1 9 (45.00%) Test Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Tester
3 5 (25.00%) Automation Tester
4 4 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Manual Test Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Project Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) QA Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) QA Automation Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) QA Automation Tester
6 1 (5.00%) QA Test Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) SPFx
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 8 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
5 7 (35.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (35.00%) Test Strategy
6 6 (30.00%) Functional Testing
7 5 (25.00%) Agile
7 5 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
8 4 (20.00%) Performance Testing
8 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 4 (20.00%) System Testing
8 4 (20.00%) Web Testing
9 3 (15.00%) Technology Transformation
10 2 (10.00%) BDD
10 2 (10.00%) SDET
10 2 (10.00%) Traceability Matrix
10 2 (10.00%) User Experience
10 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
1 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft