Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Scenario Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 100 108
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 +28
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 23 25 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.96% 1.33% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.42% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 10
10th Percentile £451 £387 £375
25th Percentile £500 £538 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £726 £513
Median % change year-on-year -26.01% +41.74% -24.21%
75th Percentile £581 £838 £588
90th Percentile £634 - £603
Central London median daily rate £550 £726 £500
% change year-on-year -24.29% +45.29% -26.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,076 1,763 1,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.01% 93.98% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,402 1,149 1,284
10th Percentile £368 £331 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.53
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Scenario Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the City of London

Scenario Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Scenario Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) CMS
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) SAP MDG
1 2 (8.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (4.35%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (4.35%) AWS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.35%) Miro
3 1 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
1 1 (4.35%) LAN
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
1 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.70%) Metadata
2 2 (8.70%) SAP BW
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Cypress.io
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) webpack
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) MLflow
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
3 1 (4.35%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Banking
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (26.09%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Retail
5 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.70%) Back Office
6 2 (8.70%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (8.70%) Marketing
6 2 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
7 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
7 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Law
7 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Business Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Data Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Tester
4 3 (13.04%) Applications Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Functional Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) SAP Business Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) SAP MDM Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Web Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Back Office Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Digital Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) LAN Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Security Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) Apollo GraphQL
2 2 (8.70%) DOM
2 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
2 2 (8.70%) Jest
2 2 (8.70%) Kafka
2 2 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (8.70%) React
2 2 (8.70%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) Sass
3 1 (4.35%) ADO
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) Google JAX
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.35%) IDoc
3 1 (4.35%) JAX
3 1 (4.35%) pytest
3 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.70%) FMCG
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.35%) CMDB
3 1 (4.35%) CSOC
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Market Risk
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) User Acceptance Testing
2 11 (47.83%) Validation
3 8 (34.78%) Data Analysis
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
5 6 (26.09%) Test Scripting
5 6 (26.09%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (21.74%) AI
6 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
7 4 (17.39%) Analytics
7 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (17.39%) Data Mapping
7 4 (17.39%) Data Validation
7 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
7 4 (17.39%) Migration
7 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (17.39%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) CCIE
2 1 (4.35%) CCNP
2 1 (4.35%) CEH
2 1 (4.35%) CHECK Team Leader
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CREST Certified
2 1 (4.35%) IIBA
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.35%) OSCP
2 1 (4.35%) PhD
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Data Quality
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (4.35%) NCSC
3 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Informatica
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow