Scenario Testing Contracts in Cheshire

Scenario Testing
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 54 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 12 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.46% 0.38% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 0.45% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £356 £321 -
25th Percentile £376 £334 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £363 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.31% - -
75th Percentile £497 £384 -
90th Percentile £539 £394 -
North West median daily rate £447 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +11.75% -20.00% +17.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 470 444 467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 96.51% 83.46% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 295 304
10th Percentile £313 £303 £291
25th Percentile £358 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £586
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 34 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.00 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £35.20 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £81.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +51.99%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in Cheshire

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in Cheshire

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in Cheshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in Cheshire

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in Cheshire

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Knutsford - 10 £447 - 1
Scenario Testing
North West

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (25.00%) CICS
2 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) DB2
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) SOAtest
4 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (8.33%) Eclipse
4 1 (8.33%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) IntelliJ
4 1 (8.33%) Maven
4 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) General Ledger
2 2 (16.67%) Retail Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Debt Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Test Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Designer
3 1 (8.33%) Development Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Project Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (16.67%) J2EE
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 2 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (25.00%) VSAM
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) SDLC
3 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) API Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 3 (25.00%) System Testing
4 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) COBOL
2 3 (25.00%) JCL
3 2 (16.67%) REXX
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
1 2 (16.67%) SEPA
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Ab Initio
2 2 (16.67%) Informatica
2 2 (16.67%) Parasoft
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft