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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 91 114
Rank change year-on-year -27 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 24 26 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.05% 1.46% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.55% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 5
10th Percentile £410 £323 -
25th Percentile £463 £459 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £713 £475
Median % change year-on-year -26.39% +50.15% -31.65%
75th Percentile £575 £838 £588
90th Percentile £595 £846 £678
Central London median daily rate £525 £700 £438
% change year-on-year -25.00% +60.00% -37.05%

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 2,017 1,677 1,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.23% 94.16% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,391 1,108 1,232
10th Percentile £378 £325 £383
25th Percentile £460 £422 £475
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 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -1.82%

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 3 September 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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP MDG
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DHCP
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) INAP
1 1 (4.17%) Intelligent Network
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
1 1 (4.17%) LAN
1 1 (4.17%) RTP
1 1 (4.17%) tcpdump
1 1 (4.17%) VoIP
1 1 (4.17%) VPN
1 1 (4.17%) WAN
1 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.17%) Wireless
1 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.33%) Metadata
2 2 (8.33%) SAP BW
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 2 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) JMeter
3 2 (8.33%) Newman
3 2 (8.33%) Postman
3 2 (8.33%) webpack
4 1 (4.17%) eggPlant
4 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
4 1 (4.17%) Locust
4 1 (4.17%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.17%) TestCafe
General
1 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Banking
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
4 4 (16.67%) Retail
5 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Back Office
6 2 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Marketing
6 2 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (8.33%) Retail Banking
7 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Business Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Data Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Tester
5 3 (12.50%) Applications Tester
5 3 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Data Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) SAP Business Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) SAP MDM Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Web Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Penetration Tester
7 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) Kafka
3 2 (8.33%) Apollo GraphQL
3 2 (8.33%) DOM
3 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 2 (8.33%) Jest
3 2 (8.33%) Node.js
3 2 (8.33%) React
3 2 (8.33%) REST
3 2 (8.33%) Sass
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) LDAP
4 1 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) Playwright
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
4 1 (4.17%) Taurus
4 1 (4.17%) Web Services
4 1 (4.17%) XBRL
4 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.33%) FMCG
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.17%) CMDB
3 1 (4.17%) CSOC
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Market Risk
3 1 (4.17%) Media Streaming
3 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) CentOS
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 11 (45.83%) Validation
3 10 (41.67%) Data Analysis
4 9 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 8 (33.33%) Agile
5 8 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
7 6 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (25.00%) User Stories
8 5 (20.83%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (20.83%) Data Mapping
8 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
8 5 (20.83%) Data Validation
8 5 (20.83%) DevOps
8 5 (20.83%) Requirements Workshops
9 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
9 4 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CCIE
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) CEH
3 1 (4.17%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CREST Certified
3 1 (4.17%) IIBA
3 1 (4.17%) ISEB
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.17%) MOS
3 1 (4.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 5 (20.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) NCSC
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Control-M
1 1 (4.17%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) SAP
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
2 2 (8.33%) Informatica
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco
3 1 (4.17%) Dialogic
3 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) Metaswitch
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow