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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 107 107
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +48
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 23 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.00% 0.74% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 0.80% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile £455 £593 £389
25th Percentile £498 £625 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £510
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +42.16% -27.14%
75th Percentile £575 £838 £538
90th Percentile £758 £846 £588
Central London median daily rate £525 £725 £505
% change year-on-year -27.59% +43.56% -27.86%

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 1,957 1,631 1,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.98% 93.41% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 1,030 1,393
10th Percentile £363 £350 £351
25th Percentile £450 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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 9 May 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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (17.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.35%) Algo Collateral
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 MM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP SD
2 1 (4.35%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.35%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) OCI
3 1 (4.35%) Rubrik
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Postman
3 2 (8.70%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.35%) MLflow
4 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.35%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 10 (43.48%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (26.09%) Banking
5 5 (21.74%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (13.04%) Front Office
8 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
8 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
9 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (4.35%) General Ledger
9 1 (4.35%) Law
9 1 (4.35%) Retail
9 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Consultant
1 5 (21.74%) Tester
2 3 (13.04%) Applications Tester
2 3 (13.04%) Business Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Functional Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Asset Management Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) QA Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Risk Business Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) SAP P2P Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Security Tester
4 1 (4.35%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Test Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) ADO
3 1 (4.35%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) DOM
3 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) Hugging Face
3 1 (4.35%) IDoc
3 1 (4.35%) Jest
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) pytest
3 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) SAP PI
3 1 (4.35%) Sass
3 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) CMDB
3 2 (8.70%) Derivative
4 1 (4.35%) CSOC
4 1 (4.35%) DTCC
4 1 (4.35%) Equities
4 1 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.35%) Market Risk
4 1 (4.35%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.35%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (34.78%) Test Automation
3 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) Migration
4 6 (26.09%) GAP Analysis
4 6 (26.09%) Test Scripting
4 6 (26.09%) Validation
5 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (21.74%) SDLC
5 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (17.39%) Business Process Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) Defect Tracking
6 4 (17.39%) ERP
6 4 (17.39%) Regression Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Test Management
7 3 (13.04%) Asset Management
7 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis
7 3 (13.04%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) ABAP
3 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CEH
3 1 (4.35%) CFA
3 1 (4.35%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (4.35%) CREST Certified
3 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) OSCP
3 1 (4.35%) PhD
3 1 (4.35%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
1 6 (26.09%) QA
2 3 (13.04%) NIST
3 1 (4.35%) Basel III
3 1 (4.35%) EMIR
3 1 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (4.35%) MiFID
3 1 (4.35%) NCSC
3 1 (4.35%) NIST 800
3 1 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Murex
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.35%) BMC
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) SmartStream
3 1 (4.35%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Zerto