Scenario Testing Contracts in England

Scenario Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Scenario Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scenario Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 327 418
Rank change year-on-year -31 +91 -3
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 127 222 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.60% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.69% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 146 174
10th Percentile £324 £323 £350
25th Percentile £404 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £448 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -10.50% +5.54%
75th Percentile £550 £559 £683
90th Percentile £700 £619 £775
UK median daily rate £452 £463 £480
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.65% +1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £27.18 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in England

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in England

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in England

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in England

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London -27 58 £489 +2.84% 97
South East +41 25 £500 +5.26% 84
Midlands +21 19 £463 +27.59% 76
North of England +21 19 £447 +8.23% 78
North West +26 16 £447 +11.75% 38
West Midlands +22 13 £496 +44.29% 45
East Midlands +1 6 £371 +2.21% 27
South West +35 2 £400 -20.00% 47
East of England +23 2 - - 56
Yorkshire +1 2 - - 32
North East 0 1 £390 -13.33% 8
Scenario Testing
UK

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.94%) Confluence
2 2 (1.57%) CICS
2 2 (1.57%) CMS
2 2 (1.57%) Drupal
2 2 (1.57%) IIS
2 2 (1.57%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.57%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Oracle General Ledger
1 5 (3.94%) Oracle Payables
1 5 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.15%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (3.15%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.15%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (1.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.79%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.79%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.79%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.79%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.79%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.79%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.96%) Azure
2 12 (9.45%) AWS
3 7 (5.51%) GCP
3 7 (5.51%) SaaS
4 4 (3.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (3.15%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.36%) Datadog
5 3 (2.36%) OCI
6 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.57%) Tricentis Tosca
6 2 (1.57%) Twilio
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.79%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.79%) GitHub
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.15%) DHCP
1 4 (3.15%) DNS
1 4 (3.15%) DOCSIS
1 4 (3.15%) HTTP
1 4 (3.15%) Network Security
1 4 (3.15%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.36%) VLAN
2 3 (2.36%) Wireless
3 1 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (0.79%) Converged Networks
3 1 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) Intranet
3 1 (0.79%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.72%) Data Lake
2 5 (3.94%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.94%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (3.94%) Relational Database
2 5 (3.94%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.15%) Power BI
4 3 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.36%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.36%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.36%) DB2
4 3 (2.36%) InfluxDB
4 3 (2.36%) Looker
4 3 (2.36%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.57%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.57%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.57%) MySQL
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 29 (22.83%) JIRA
2 11 (8.66%) Selenium
3 10 (7.87%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.72%) JMeter
5 5 (3.94%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.94%) LoadRunner
5 5 (3.94%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.36%) Ant
6 3 (2.36%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.36%) ERwin
6 3 (2.36%) Postman
7 2 (1.57%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.57%) Git
7 2 (1.57%) Introscope
7 2 (1.57%) Metasploit
7 2 (1.57%) SOAtest
7 2 (1.57%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.79%) Gatling
8 1 (0.79%) GitLab
8 1 (0.79%) Katalon Studio
General
1 40 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.41%) Finance
3 21 (16.54%) Banking
4 16 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.51%) General Ledger
6 5 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.15%) Legal
7 4 (3.15%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.36%) Back Office
8 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.79%) International Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Local Government
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (18.90%) Analyst
2 19 (14.96%) Tester
3 16 (12.60%) Senior
4 14 (11.02%) Consultant
4 14 (11.02%) Lead
5 12 (9.45%) Test Engineer
6 10 (7.87%) Test Analyst
7 8 (6.30%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.51%) Test Leader
9 6 (4.72%) Risk Consultant
9 6 (4.72%) Test Manager
10 5 (3.94%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.94%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) OAT Analyst
10 5 (3.94%) QA Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Project Manager
11 4 (3.15%) Senior Test Engineer
12 3 (2.36%) Data Modeller
12 3 (2.36%) Senior Consultant
12 3 (2.36%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.30%) Playwright
2 6 (4.72%) Web Services
3 5 (3.94%) Middleware
4 4 (3.15%) .NET
4 4 (3.15%) J2EE
4 4 (3.15%) REST
5 3 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.36%) Jest
5 3 (2.36%) Node.js
5 3 (2.36%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (1.57%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.57%) HTML
6 2 (1.57%) JSON
6 2 (1.57%) Kafka
6 2 (1.57%) WebSockets
6 2 (1.57%) XML
7 1 (0.79%) ATL
7 1 (0.79%) OAuth
7 1 (0.79%) RESTful
7 1 (0.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.24%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.09%) SCADA
3 8 (6.30%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.30%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.94%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.94%) Market Risk
5 4 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.15%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.36%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.36%) Housing Association
6 3 (2.36%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.36%) Replication
6 3 (2.36%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.57%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.57%) Derivative
7 2 (1.57%) IoT
7 2 (1.57%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.57%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Linux
2 4 (3.15%) Unix
3 2 (1.57%) AIX
3 2 (1.57%) Windows
4 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (39.37%) Test Automation
2 44 (34.65%) Agile
3 37 (29.13%) User Acceptance Testing
4 35 (27.56%) Test Strategy
5 32 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (18.11%) Test Scripting
7 20 (15.75%) CI/CD
8 19 (14.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (14.96%) Validation
9 18 (14.17%) Scrum
10 17 (13.39%) System Integration Testing
11 15 (11.81%) Performance Testing
12 14 (11.02%) Defect Management
12 14 (11.02%) Migration
12 14 (11.02%) Risk Management
12 14 (11.02%) Test Management
13 13 (10.24%) Acceptance Criteria
13 13 (10.24%) Test Planning
14 12 (9.45%) DevOps
14 12 (9.45%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.69%) Java
2 23 (18.11%) SQL
3 20 (15.75%) Python
4 8 (6.30%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.51%) C
6 5 (3.94%) C++
6 5 (3.94%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.36%) Go
7 3 (2.36%) JCL
7 3 (2.36%) REXX
8 2 (1.57%) COBOL
8 2 (1.57%) Ruby
8 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.79%) C#
9 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (14.17%) Degree
2 16 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 12 (9.45%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.51%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.57%) GPEN
7 2 (1.57%) GWAPT
7 2 (1.57%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.57%) OSCE
7 2 (1.57%) OSCP
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (28.35%) QA
2 4 (3.15%) Basel II
3 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.57%) Basel III
3 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.57%) GDPR
3 2 (1.57%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.57%) IFRS
3 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.79%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.79%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.79%) GRC
4 1 (0.79%) GxP
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.36%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.57%) Docker
3 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.72%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.36%) Control-M
2 3 (2.36%) Grafana
3 2 (1.57%) CA Wily
4 1 (0.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.79%) Kibana
4 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (16.54%) Oracle
2 12 (9.45%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.09%) SAP
4 8 (6.30%) HP
5 7 (5.51%) ServiceNow
6 6 (4.72%) Splunk
7 5 (3.94%) MuleSoft
8 4 (3.15%) Google
9 3 (2.36%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.36%) Databricks
9 3 (2.36%) Murex
10 2 (1.57%) Aareon
10 2 (1.57%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.57%) Avaya
10 2 (1.57%) Calypso
10 2 (1.57%) Civica
10 2 (1.57%) Informatica
10 2 (1.57%) Northgate
10 2 (1.57%) Parasoft
10 2 (1.57%) VMware