Scenario Testing Contracts in Scotland

Scenario Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 130 137
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 20 34 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.91% 1.19% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.29% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 8
10th Percentile £383 £350 £313
25th Percentile £428 £379 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £428 £444
Median % change year-on-year +10.98% -3.55% +4.41%
75th Percentile £505 £469 £500
90th Percentile £536 £500 £533
UK median daily rate £463 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -4.15% +1.58% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £25.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in Scotland

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in Scotland

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in Scotland

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in Scotland

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Edinburgh +38 9 £475 +25.50% 2
West Lothian - 8 £470 -
Glasgow -9 2 £394 -8.00%
Scenario Testing
UK

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) 5G
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.00%) LAN
2 1 (5.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) JIRA
2 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (30.00%) JUnit
3 5 (25.00%) Git
3 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (25.00%) Postman
4 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) UAT Analyst
3 6 (30.00%) Developer
3 6 (30.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) J2EE
1 7 (35.00%) Kafka
1 7 (35.00%) REST
1 7 (35.00%) Spring
2 6 (30.00%) Apache Camel
3 5 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) Coaching
3 7 (35.00%) Component Testing
3 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (35.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 6 (30.00%) TDD
5 5 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
6 3 (15.00%) Order to Cash
6 3 (15.00%) Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (15.00%) Record to Report
7 2 (10.00%) CRM
7 2 (10.00%) IT Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) Migration
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
8 1 (5.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Java
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (70.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Avaya
2 1 (5.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.00%) IFS