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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 108 104
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +56
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 24 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.09% 0.57% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.62% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 14
10th Percentile £453 £472 £396
25th Percentile £492 £581 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £675 £510
Median % change year-on-year -23.70% +32.35% -1.45%
75th Percentile £647 £791 £566
90th Percentile £776 £862 £588
Central London median daily rate £515 £675 £510
% change year-on-year -23.70% +32.35% -1.45%
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 1,908 1,614 2,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.61% 92.44% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,309 1,035 1,428
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.10% -5.21%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 12
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.03
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.15
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +36.77% -40.74%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £49.41
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £32.83 £27.81
% change year-on-year -19.10% +18.03% -20.54%

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 12 April 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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (8.33%) Algo Collateral
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (4.17%) SAP MM
3 1 (4.17%) SAP SD
3 1 (4.17%) Summit
3 1 (4.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) AWS
1 3 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (4.17%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) OCI
3 1 (4.17%) Rubrik
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.67%) Selenium
3 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (12.50%) Git
3 3 (12.50%) Postman
3 3 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 2 (8.33%) GitLab
4 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.33%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.17%) MLflow
5 1 (4.17%) Robot Framework
5 1 (4.17%) TestRail
General
1 15 (62.50%) Finance
2 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
3 9 (37.50%) Banking
4 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (16.67%) Front Office
6 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Investment Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.17%) Back Office
7 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
7 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.17%) Law
7 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Functional Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Business Process Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Change Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Process Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Procurement Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) SAP SD Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Support Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) ADO
3 1 (4.17%) BAPI
3 1 (4.17%) CSS
3 1 (4.17%) EDI
3 1 (4.17%) Google JAX
3 1 (4.17%) HTML
3 1 (4.17%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.17%) IDoc
3 1 (4.17%) JAX
3 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) pytest
3 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.17%) SAP ALE
3 1 (4.17%) SAP PI
3 1 (4.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Derivative
2 3 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (8.33%) CMDB
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) DTCC
4 1 (4.17%) Equities
4 1 (4.17%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.17%) Market Risk
4 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.17%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
1 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
1 10 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (33.33%) Validation
4 7 (29.17%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
6 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.83%) Test Scripting
7 4 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (16.67%) Business Process Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) Data Validation
7 4 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (16.67%) ERP
8 3 (12.50%) Asset Management
8 3 (12.50%) Data Mapping
8 3 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Java
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) ABAP
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
1 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CFA
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) PhD
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) QA
2 7 (29.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (8.33%) NIST
4 1 (4.17%) Basel III
4 1 (4.17%) EMIR
4 1 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (4.17%) MiFID
4 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) SAP
2 2 (8.33%) Murex
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.33%) SmartStream
3 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.17%) BMC
3 1 (4.17%) HP
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) UiPath
3 1 (4.17%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Workday
3 1 (4.17%) Zerto