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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 101 108
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 +37
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 20 18 19
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.82% 1.02% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.09% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 12
10th Percentile £445 £608 £382
25th Percentile £511 £637 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £755 £513
Median % change year-on-year -27.15% +47.32% -24.21%
75th Percentile £622 £838 £588
90th Percentile £791 - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £755 £500
% change year-on-year -27.15% +51.00% -26.06%

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 2,089 1,648 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.72% 93.80% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 1,053 1,355
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.96 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.21 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.83 £52.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £68.75 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.39 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -18.82% +16.86% -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 29 June 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 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (5.00%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) OCI
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) Internet
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
1 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Big Data
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Postman
2 2 (10.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) webpack
3 1 (5.00%) MLflow
3 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (5.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (10.00%) Retail
6 2 (10.00%) Retail Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Back Office
7 1 (5.00%) Front Office
7 1 (5.00%) General Ledger
7 1 (5.00%) Law
7 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
1 4 (20.00%) Tester
2 3 (15.00%) Applications Tester
2 3 (15.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Web Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Business Process Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Management Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Process Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SAP MM Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) SAP SD Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 2 (10.00%) DOM
2 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (10.00%) Jest
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) Node.js
2 2 (10.00%) React
2 2 (10.00%) Sass
3 1 (5.00%) ADO
3 1 (5.00%) BAPI
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) EDI
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) IDoc
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.00%) SAP ALE
3 1 (5.00%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (5.00%) CSOC
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.00%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (40.00%) Validation
3 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Migration
4 5 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 4 (20.00%) AI
5 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (20.00%) Data Mapping
5 4 (20.00%) Data Validation
5 4 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (20.00%) SDLC
6 3 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (15.00%) Analytics
6 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (15.00%) Manual Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) CCIE
3 1 (5.00%) CCNP
3 1 (5.00%) CEH
3 1 (5.00%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) CREST Certified
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) OSCP
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (10.00%) NIST
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (5.00%) NCSC
4 1 (5.00%) NIST 800
4 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco
2 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (5.00%) Murex
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow