Scenario Testing Contracts in Central London

Scenario Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Scenario Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scenario Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 111 158
Rank change year-on-year -7 +47 +22
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 11 22 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.55% 0.90% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.99% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 10
10th Percentile £578 £375 £462
25th Percentile £619 £458 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £505 £679
Median % change year-on-year +43.56% -25.60% +67.59%
75th Percentile £838 £547 £719
90th Percentile £862 £588 £800
London median daily rate £489 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +2.84% -20.83% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in Central London

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in Central London

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in Central London

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in Central London

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London -2 11 £725 +42.16% 12
Scenario Testing
London

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (18.18%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Mining
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
3 1 (9.09%) Data Mart
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) Ant
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) International Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Risk Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Murex Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Financials Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Manager
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Test Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (18.18%) WebSockets
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Market Risk
2 2 (18.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Stress Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) SDLC
3 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (18.18%) Load Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 1 (9.09%) System Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Basel II
2 1 (9.09%) Basel III
2 1 (9.09%) EU AI Act
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Calypso
1 1 (9.09%) HP
1 1 (9.09%) Murex
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) SAP