Scenario Testing Contracts

Scenario Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 400 398
Rank change year-on-year +68 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 263 307 562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.55% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.61% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 206 380
10th Percentile £325 £361 £318
25th Percentile £363 £413 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £571 £647 £538
90th Percentile £688 £775 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £432
% change year-on-year -5.56% +4.17% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £16.75
25th Percentile - - £19.19
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £26.13
90th Percentile - - £28.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - -26.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +69 207 £456 -8.80% 80
London +67 117 £475 -24.00% 42
Work from Home +75 103 £475 -5.00% 21
UK excluding London +4 94 £425 -5.56% 45
South East +16 29 £475 +13.10% 12
Midlands +25 15 £363 -3.33% 7
Scotland +21 13 £475 +11.37% 5
North of England +7 13 £413 -17.50% 5
East Midlands +17 12 £363 -3.33% 5
East of England +17 12 £375 -46.43% 6
South West 0 12 £500 +8.11% 6
North West +16 6 £400 -20.00% 5
Yorkshire +2 6 - -
West Midlands +8 3 £344 -40.22% 2
North East +11 1 £450 -28.00%

Scenario Testing
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 10 (3.80%) Confluence
2 6 (2.28%) CMS
3 5 (1.90%) IIS
4 4 (1.52%) JBoss
5 3 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.38%) Apache
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.76%) Mingle
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.42%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.90%) SAP Payroll
2 5 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.90%) SimCorp Dimension
3 4 (1.52%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.14%) Endur
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle HRMS
4 3 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.14%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.14%) SAP MRS
4 3 (1.14%) SAP PS
4 3 (1.14%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.76%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.79%) Azure
2 23 (8.75%) AWS
3 15 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.32%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.42%) SuccessFactors
6 6 (2.28%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.90%) BrowserStack
7 5 (1.90%) OCI
7 5 (1.90%) SAP Fieldglass
8 4 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.14%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.14%) GCP
9 3 (1.14%) GitHub
9 3 (1.14%) Serverless
10 2 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.38%) FinancialForce
11 1 (0.38%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.28%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) LAN
2 1 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.90%) Power BI
3 4 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (1.52%) DB2
3 4 (1.52%) MS Access
3 4 (1.52%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.52%) Tableau
4 2 (0.76%) Big Data
4 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.38%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.38%) Impala
5 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 45 (17.11%) JIRA
2 24 (9.13%) Selenium
3 23 (8.75%) Cucumber
4 12 (4.56%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.56%) Postman
5 10 (3.80%) JMeter
6 7 (2.66%) Gatling
6 7 (2.66%) LoadRunner
7 6 (2.28%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.28%) Git
7 6 (2.28%) JUnit
7 6 (2.28%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.52%) Vagrant
8 4 (1.52%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.14%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.14%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.14%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.14%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.76%) Serenity BDD
General
1 89 (33.84%) Finance
2 64 (24.33%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.51%) Banking
5 21 (7.98%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.32%) Retail
7 9 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.04%) Games
8 8 (3.04%) Legal
9 7 (2.66%) Billing
10 6 (2.28%) Marketing
11 5 (1.90%) Back Office
11 5 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.14%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.14%) Local Government
12 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.14%) Wholesale Banking
13 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 82 (31.18%) Analyst
2 44 (16.73%) Tester
3 36 (13.69%) Test Analyst
4 26 (9.89%) Lead
5 24 (9.13%) Senior
6 23 (8.75%) Consultant
7 22 (8.37%) Business Analyst
8 19 (7.22%) Test Leader
8 19 (7.22%) Test Manager
9 18 (6.84%) Test Engineer
10 17 (6.46%) Architect
11 14 (5.32%) Manual Tester
12 13 (4.94%) QA Engineer
13 11 (4.18%) Data Analyst
14 10 (3.80%) Automation Tester
15 9 (3.42%) QA Tester
15 9 (3.42%) Technical Analyst
16 8 (3.04%) Project Analyst
16 8 (3.04%) SAP Consultant
17 7 (2.66%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.56%) REST
2 10 (3.80%) ADO
3 8 (3.04%) Gherkin
4 6 (2.28%) Spring
4 6 (2.28%) Swagger
5 5 (1.90%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.90%) HTML
5 5 (1.90%) JSON
5 5 (1.90%) OpenAPI
5 5 (1.90%) XML
6 4 (1.52%) CSS
6 4 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (1.52%) Web Services
7 3 (1.14%) Kafka
7 3 (1.14%) Node.js
8 2 (0.76%) Apache Camel
8 2 (0.76%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.76%) SOAP
8 2 (0.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.80%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.04%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.66%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.90%) PKI
4 5 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.52%) e-Health
5 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.14%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.76%) Derivative
7 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.76%) Social Media
8 1 (0.38%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.38%) NHS
8 1 (0.38%) Robotics
8 1 (0.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.18%) Unix
2 10 (3.80%) Windows
3 9 (3.42%) Linux
4 5 (1.90%) AIX
4 5 (1.90%) VMS
5 4 (1.52%) Solaris
6 3 (1.14%) Android
6 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (34.22%) Test Automation
2 85 (32.32%) User Acceptance Testing
3 78 (29.66%) Agile
4 56 (21.29%) Test Scripting
5 47 (17.87%) Test Strategy
6 46 (17.49%) End-to-End Testing
7 39 (14.83%) Migration
8 37 (14.07%) Acceptance Criteria
8 37 (14.07%) DevOps
9 36 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (12.93%) Regression Testing
11 32 (12.17%) Test Management
12 29 (11.03%) User Stories
13 28 (10.65%) Manual Testing
13 28 (10.65%) Scrum
13 28 (10.65%) Test Planning
14 27 (10.27%) System Integration Testing
15 26 (9.89%) Software Testing
16 25 (9.51%) CI/CD
16 25 (9.51%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.07%) SQL
2 23 (8.75%) Java
3 18 (6.84%) Python
4 16 (6.08%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.52%) C#
5 4 (1.52%) Perl
5 4 (1.52%) Ruby
6 3 (1.14%) ABAP
6 3 (1.14%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.14%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.14%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.14%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.38%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) Scala
8 1 (0.38%) SOQL
8 1 (0.38%) VB
8 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (10.65%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.75%) Degree
3 20 (7.60%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.04%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.52%) CIPD
7 3 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.14%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.38%) CCA
8 1 (0.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (25.10%) QA
2 10 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.42%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.52%) PMO
5 3 (1.14%) WCAG
6 2 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.76%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.76%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS
7 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.90%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.52%) Opsgenie
2 4 (1.52%) Tivoli
3 3 (1.14%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (1.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Control-M
4 1 (0.38%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 36 (13.69%) SAP
2 34 (12.93%) Oracle
3 24 (9.13%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.66%) Splunk
7 6 (2.28%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.28%) HP
8 5 (1.90%) SimCorp
9 4 (1.52%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.52%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.52%) F5
9 4 (1.52%) IBM
9 4 (1.52%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.52%) VMware
10 3 (1.14%) Adobe
10 3 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.14%) OpenText
10 3 (1.14%) Qualtrics
11 2 (0.76%) Ariba