Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Scenario Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 64 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.36% 0.47% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.53% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £270 £628 -
25th Percentile £328 £631 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £675 £400
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +68.75% -30.43%
75th Percentile £475 £731 £450
90th Percentile - £743 £473
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -25.00% +26.32% +10.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Scenario Testing 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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 712 568 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.62% 89.59% 83.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 386 387
10th Percentile £263 £200 £250
25th Percentile £400 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -3.65%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £575
90th Percentile £641 £701 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 15 42
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.34
25th Percentile £16.15 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +5.26% +112.09%
75th Percentile £23.58 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 £68.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £23.00
% change year-on-year -2.83% -6.13% +29.94%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scenario Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Scenario Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in Birmingham

Scenario Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Scenario Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) HP ALM
1 2 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle