Scenario Testing Contracts in the City of London

Scenario Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 106 146
Rank change year-on-year +9 +40 +38
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 18 19 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.00% 0.89% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.98% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 18
10th Percentile £608 £382 £453
25th Percentile £637 £468 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £513 £676
Median % change year-on-year +47.32% -24.21% +66.98%
75th Percentile £838 £588 £797
90th Percentile - - £800
Central London median daily rate £755 £500 £676
% change year-on-year +51.00% -26.06% +66.98%

All Process and 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 1,687 1,944 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.88% 91.05% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,349 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the City of London

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the City of London

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the City of London

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the City of London

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (11.11%) IIS
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 7 (38.89%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Data Mining
1 8 (44.44%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.56%) Data Mart
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (5.56%) Ant
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
2 1 (5.56%) Postman
2 1 (5.56%) Selenium
General
1 11 (61.11%) Banking
2 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
3 9 (50.00%) Investment Banking
4 7 (38.89%) Finance
5 2 (11.11%) Legal
6 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Back Office
6 1 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.56%) Front Office
6 1 (5.56%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Consultant
2 8 (44.44%) Risk Consultant
2 8 (44.44%) Senior
3 7 (38.89%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (22.22%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
6 1 (5.56%) IT Services Manager
6 1 (5.56%) KYC Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Murex Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Oracle Financials Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Service Continuity Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (11.11%) WebSockets
2 1 (5.56%) .NET
2 1 (5.56%) DCOM
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Market Risk
2 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
1 10 (55.56%) Scrum
1 10 (55.56%) Stress Testing
2 9 (50.00%) Analytics
2 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (50.00%) SDLC
3 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (44.44%) Service Delivery
4 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Data Mapping
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) Basel II
2 4 (22.22%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) Basel III
3 1 (5.56%) EU AI Act
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Calypso
2 1 (5.56%) Duck Creek
2 1 (5.56%) HP
2 1 (5.56%) Murex
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) UiPath