Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Scenario Testing
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 1.51% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £273 - -
25th Percentile £291 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 - -
75th Percentile £354 - -
90th Percentile £373 - -
South West median daily rate £400 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -33.33% +14.29% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 187 89 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 70.57% 87.25% 87.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 51 74
10th Percentile £348 £185 £175
25th Percentile £402 £239 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -2.56% -9.30%
75th Percentile £668 £550 £630
90th Percentile £788 £565 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 7
10th Percentile £15.57 £14.88 £14.12
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.25 £14.41
Median hourly rate £52.00 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +235.48% -0.77% -72.35%
75th Percentile £71.50 £15.75 £20.40
90th Percentile £74.68 £19.10 £40.11
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +3.85%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scenario Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in Dorset

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Scenario Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Scenario Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scenario Testing within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 21 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bournemouth - 4 £323 - 1
Scenario Testing
South West

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) HBase
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (25.00%) QA
1 1 (25.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle