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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 105 118
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +41
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 26 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.36% 0.39% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 0.42% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile £339 £419 £459
25th Percentile £462 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £575 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +12.75% +2.00%
75th Percentile £647 £638 £538
90th Percentile £732 £675 £615
Central London median daily rate £510 £575 £510
% change year-on-year -11.30% +12.75% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
75th Percentile £29.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 - -

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 1,702 1,663 2,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.06% 91.47% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 996 1,520
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £428 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.05% -5.17%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £778 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £20.10 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £28.94 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £64.56 £46.75
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%

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 11 February 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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (7.69%) Algo Collateral
3 1 (3.85%) Loan IQ
3 1 (3.85%) SAP MM
3 1 (3.85%) SAP SD
3 1 (3.85%) Summit
3 1 (3.85%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (3.85%) GCP
3 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.85%) Rubrik
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.85%) Power BI
1 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
2 4 (15.38%) Cucumber
2 4 (15.38%) Selenium
3 3 (11.54%) Git
3 3 (11.54%) Postman
3 3 (11.54%) REST Assured
4 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.69%) SoapUI
5 1 (3.85%) GitLab
5 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.85%) MLflow
5 1 (3.85%) TestRail
General
1 17 (65.38%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Banking
2 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Front Office
5 3 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
6 2 (7.69%) Back Office
7 1 (3.85%) Law
7 1 (3.85%) Legal
7 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Business Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Test Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Asset Management Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) IT Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Management Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Payments Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Risk Business Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) SAP P2P Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) BAPI
3 1 (3.85%) EDI
3 1 (3.85%) Google JAX
3 1 (3.85%) Hugging Face
3 1 (3.85%) IDoc
3 1 (3.85%) JAX
3 1 (3.85%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.85%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.85%) SAP ALE
3 1 (3.85%) SAP PI
3 1 (3.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (11.54%) Derivative
2 3 (11.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) CMDB
4 1 (3.85%) DTCC
4 1 (3.85%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.85%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.85%) Equities
4 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.85%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.85%) PMI
4 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.85%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Agile
2 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (42.31%) User Acceptance Testing
4 10 (38.46%) Test Automation
5 8 (30.77%) Validation
6 7 (26.92%) Migration
7 6 (23.08%) Business Analysis
7 6 (23.08%) GAP Analysis
7 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (19.23%) Business Process Analysis
8 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (19.23%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Test Scripting
8 5 (19.23%) Use Case
8 5 (19.23%) User Stories
9 4 (15.38%) Data Mapping
9 4 (15.38%) Defect Management
9 4 (15.38%) SDLC
9 4 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) C#
3 2 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.85%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) ISTQB
3 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.69%) PMI Certification
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) CBAP
4 1 (3.85%) CFA
4 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.85%) PhD
4 1 (3.85%) PMP
4 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) QA
2 7 (26.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.69%) NIST
4 1 (3.85%) Basel III
4 1 (3.85%) EMIR
4 1 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (3.85%) ISO 20022
4 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (3.85%) MiFID
4 1 (3.85%) PSD2
4 1 (3.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Murex
2 2 (7.69%) SmartStream
2 2 (7.69%) UiPath
3 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.85%) BMC
3 1 (3.85%) HP
3 1 (3.85%) IBM
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Workday
3 1 (3.85%) Zerto