Scenario Testing Contracts in England

Scenario Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Scenario Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 433 409
Rank change year-on-year +101 -24 -12
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 224 244 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.48% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.53% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 173 288
10th Percentile £323 £351 £314
25th Percentile £363 £406 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £686 £553
90th Percentile £600 £775 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £483 £475
% change year-on-year -4.15% +1.58% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £19.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - £29.05
UK median hourly rate - - £25.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Scenario Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +93 125 £475 -20.83% 32
South East +7 30 £475 +14.46% 14
Midlands +34 20 £363 -3.33% 10
North of England +20 18 £413 -17.40% 8
East Midlands +23 15 £363 -3.33% 6
South West +24 13 £500 +2.04% 3
Yorkshire +15 9 £413 -17.40% 4
North West +16 8 £413 -17.50% 3
East of England +16 8 £375 -46.43% 9
West Midlands +31 5 £344 -47.12% 4
North East +18 1 £450 -28.00% 1
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 6 (2.68%) CMS
2 4 (1.79%) Confluence
2 4 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.34%) IIS
4 2 (0.89%) JBoss
4 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.89%) Mingle
3 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) SAP ERP
1 4 (1.79%) SAP PS
1 4 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (1.79%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (1.34%) Endur
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.34%) SAP HR
2 3 (1.34%) SAP MRS
3 2 (0.89%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (0.89%) SAP EWM
3 2 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.89%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.45%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.45%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 34 (15.18%) Azure
2 22 (9.82%) AWS
3 18 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (4.91%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.68%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (2.23%) BrowserStack
6 5 (2.23%) Serverless
7 4 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.79%) SAP Fieldglass
8 3 (1.34%) GCP
8 3 (1.34%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (0.89%) OCI
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.45%) Commercetools
10 1 (0.45%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.45%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.45%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (2.23%) Power BI
2 4 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (1.79%) MS Access
2 4 (1.79%) Oracle Database
2 4 (1.79%) Tableau
3 3 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.89%) DB2
4 2 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.89%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.45%) Big Data
5 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.45%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.45%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.45%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 37 (16.52%) JIRA
2 24 (10.71%) Selenium
3 18 (8.04%) Cucumber
4 8 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.57%) JMeter
5 7 (3.13%) LoadRunner
5 7 (3.13%) Postman
6 6 (2.68%) Gatling
7 5 (2.23%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.79%) Git
8 4 (1.79%) HP UFT
8 4 (1.79%) JUnit
8 4 (1.79%) TestNG
8 4 (1.79%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.34%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.34%) Maven
9 3 (1.34%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.34%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 76 (33.93%) Finance
2 45 (20.09%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.93%) Banking
4 19 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.25%) Retail
6 12 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.13%) Games
7 7 (3.13%) Legal
8 6 (2.68%) Marketing
9 5 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Back Office
10 4 (1.79%) Billing
11 3 (1.34%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.34%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.34%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.89%) Local Government
12 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (30.36%) Analyst
2 41 (18.30%) Tester
3 39 (17.41%) Test Analyst
4 24 (10.71%) Senior
5 22 (9.82%) Lead
5 22 (9.82%) Test Engineer
6 18 (8.04%) Test Leader
7 17 (7.59%) Test Manager
8 16 (7.14%) Consultant
9 14 (6.25%) Manual Tester
10 13 (5.80%) Business Analyst
10 13 (5.80%) QA Engineer
11 11 (4.91%) Architect
11 11 (4.91%) Data Analyst
12 10 (4.46%) QA Tester
13 9 (4.02%) Automation Tester
14 8 (3.57%) QA Test Engineer
15 7 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
15 7 (3.13%) Project Analyst
16 6 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.80%) ADO
2 10 (4.46%) Gherkin
3 5 (2.23%) AngularJS
3 5 (2.23%) HTML
3 5 (2.23%) JSON
3 5 (2.23%) Node.js
3 5 (2.23%) XML
4 4 (1.79%) CSS
4 4 (1.79%) Jest
4 4 (1.79%) REST
4 4 (1.79%) Swagger
5 3 (1.34%) OpenAPI
5 3 (1.34%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (0.89%) .NET
6 2 (0.89%) Web Services
7 1 (0.45%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.45%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.45%) SOAP
7 1 (0.45%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.57%) Management Information System
1 8 (3.57%) Mobile App
1 8 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (2.68%) Reinsurance
3 5 (2.23%) PKI
4 4 (1.79%) e-Health
4 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.89%) Derivative
6 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.89%) NHS
7 1 (0.45%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.45%) Robotics
7 1 (0.45%) Social Media
7 1 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.45%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.13%) Unix
2 6 (2.68%) Windows
3 4 (1.79%) Linux
3 4 (1.79%) VMS
4 3 (1.34%) AIX
4 3 (1.34%) Android
4 3 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.89%) Solaris
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (34.38%) Test Automation
2 76 (33.93%) Agile
3 66 (29.46%) User Acceptance Testing
4 55 (24.55%) Test Scripting
5 44 (19.64%) Test Strategy
6 41 (18.30%) Migration
7 37 (16.52%) Test Management
8 33 (14.73%) End-to-End Testing
9 32 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
9 32 (14.29%) DevOps
9 32 (14.29%) Functional Testing
10 30 (13.39%) Regression Testing
11 27 (12.05%) Manual Testing
11 27 (12.05%) Performance Testing
11 27 (12.05%) Test Planning
12 26 (11.61%) Software Testing
13 25 (11.16%) User Stories
14 24 (10.71%) System Integration Testing
15 23 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (9.82%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.82%) SQL
2 20 (8.93%) Java
3 17 (7.59%) Python
4 12 (5.36%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.79%) C#
5 4 (1.79%) Perl
5 4 (1.79%) Ruby
5 4 (1.79%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.34%) ABAP
6 3 (1.34%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.45%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.45%) Scala
7 1 (0.45%) SOQL
7 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (11.16%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.04%) Degree
3 16 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.57%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.34%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.89%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) CCA
7 1 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (30.36%) QA
2 11 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.46%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.34%) WCAG
5 2 (0.89%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.89%) PMO
5 2 (0.89%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.45%) IFRS
6 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.89%) Docker
3 1 (0.45%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.79%) Opsgenie
2 3 (1.34%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.34%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.89%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (11.16%) Oracle
1 25 (11.16%) SAP
2 20 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 7 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.13%) Splunk
4 6 (2.68%) HP
4 6 (2.68%) Workday
5 4 (1.79%) Adobe
5 4 (1.79%) Alteryx
5 4 (1.79%) PagerDuty
5 4 (1.79%) Qualtrics
5 4 (1.79%) SimCorp
6 3 (1.34%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.34%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.34%) VMware
7 2 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.89%) Ceridian
7 2 (0.89%) F5
7 2 (0.89%) IBM