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 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 331 401
Rank change year-on-year -4 +70 +9
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 137 213 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.58% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.68% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 136 160
10th Percentile £318 £323 £362
25th Percentile £392 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £462 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.81% -7.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £703
90th Percentile £719 £663 £778
UK median daily rate £451 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.05% -5.00% +11.11%
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 21,908 31,369 43,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.13% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,318 20,561 30,212
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £769
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,271 1,523
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.97 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -23.29% -2.14% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.61% - +40.19%

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 24 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 24 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 +5 61 £550 +15.79% 84
Midlands +18 25 £463 +27.59% 33
South East +40 24 £500 +5.26% 46
North of England +22 22 £447 +8.36% 43
North West +23 19 £447 +11.75% 27
West Midlands +26 17 £500 +45.45% 19
East Midlands +2 8 £320 -11.72% 11
South West +28 2 £400 -30.43% 33
East of England +15 2 - - 15
Yorkshire +6 2 - - 12
North East 0 1 £390 -13.33% 4
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 (4.38%) Confluence
2 3 (2.19%) CICS
3 2 (1.46%) CMS
3 2 (1.46%) Drupal
3 2 (1.46%) IIS
3 2 (1.46%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.46%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.73%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Oracle General Ledger
1 7 (5.11%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (4.38%) Oracle Assets
2 6 (4.38%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (4.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 5 (3.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.73%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.73%) Murex MxG2000
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.73%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.73%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.73%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.73%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.73%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.73%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.73%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 15 (10.95%) Azure
2 14 (10.22%) AWS
3 10 (7.30%) SaaS
4 8 (5.84%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.92%) OCI
6 3 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.19%) GCP
7 2 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.46%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (1.46%) Twilio
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.73%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.73%) GitHub
8 1 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) HTTP
2 1 (0.73%) Converged Networks
2 1 (0.73%) Intranet
2 1 (0.73%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.84%) NoSQL
1 8 (5.84%) Power BI
2 6 (4.38%) Data Lake
2 6 (4.38%) Data Mining
2 6 (4.38%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (4.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.65%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.19%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.19%) DB2
4 3 (2.19%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.46%) Data Mart
5 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.46%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.46%) MySQL
5 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.73%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (23.36%) JIRA
2 15 (10.95%) Selenium
3 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 8 (5.84%) REST Assured
5 6 (4.38%) LoadRunner
6 5 (3.65%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.65%) JMeter
7 4 (2.92%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.19%) ERwin
8 3 (2.19%) Postman
9 2 (1.46%) Ant
9 2 (1.46%) Burp Suite
9 2 (1.46%) Gatling
9 2 (1.46%) Git
9 2 (1.46%) Introscope
9 2 (1.46%) Metasploit
9 2 (1.46%) SOAtest
10 1 (0.73%) JBehave
10 1 (0.73%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 48 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.36%) Finance
3 27 (19.71%) Banking
4 20 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.57%) General Ledger
6 8 (5.84%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.65%) Legal
8 4 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.19%) Back Office
10 2 (1.46%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.73%) International Banking
11 1 (0.73%) Local Government
11 1 (0.73%) Marketing
11 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (19.71%) Analyst
2 23 (16.79%) Tester
3 19 (13.87%) Consultant
3 19 (13.87%) Senior
4 13 (9.49%) Lead
5 9 (6.57%) Business Analyst
5 9 (6.57%) Risk Consultant
5 9 (6.57%) Test Analyst
5 9 (6.57%) Test Engineer
6 8 (5.84%) OAT Analyst
7 7 (5.11%) Test Leader
8 6 (4.38%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (3.65%) IT Manager
9 5 (3.65%) Java Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Test Manager
10 4 (2.92%) Automation Tester
10 4 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.38%) REST
1 6 (4.38%) Web Services
2 5 (3.65%) Middleware
2 5 (3.65%) Playwright
3 4 (2.92%) .NET
3 4 (2.92%) J2EE
3 4 (2.92%) JSON
3 4 (2.92%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (2.19%) Jest
4 3 (2.19%) Node.js
5 2 (1.46%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.46%) HTML
5 2 (1.46%) jQuery
5 2 (1.46%) Kafka
5 2 (1.46%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.46%) XML
6 1 (0.73%) ATL
6 1 (0.73%) OAuth
6 1 (0.73%) pytest
6 1 (0.73%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.49%) Product Ownership
2 11 (8.03%) Data Centre
2 11 (8.03%) SCADA
3 8 (5.84%) Market Risk
4 7 (5.11%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.92%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.19%) Housing Association
7 3 (2.19%) Replication
7 3 (2.19%) VSAM
8 2 (1.46%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.46%) Derivative
8 2 (1.46%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (1.46%) OTC Derivatives
8 2 (1.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.92%) Unix
2 2 (1.46%) AIX
2 2 (1.46%) Linux
2 2 (1.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.73%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (35.77%) Test Automation
2 41 (29.93%) Agile
3 40 (29.20%) Test Strategy
4 37 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (27.01%) User Acceptance Testing
5 28 (20.44%) Test Scripting
6 25 (18.25%) Validation
7 22 (16.06%) CI/CD
8 20 (14.60%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (13.87%) Scrum
10 17 (12.41%) Performance Testing
10 17 (12.41%) System Integration Testing
11 16 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (11.68%) DevOps
11 16 (11.68%) SDLC
12 14 (10.22%) Defect Management
12 14 (10.22%) Migration
12 14 (10.22%) Risk Management
13 13 (9.49%) Change Management
13 13 (9.49%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 31 (22.63%) SQL
2 28 (20.44%) Java
3 19 (13.87%) Python
4 6 (4.38%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.92%) C
5 4 (2.92%) JCL
6 3 (2.19%) COBOL
6 3 (2.19%) REXX
7 2 (1.46%) C++
7 2 (1.46%) Ruby
7 2 (1.46%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.14%) Degree
3 15 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.38%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.65%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.46%) GPEN
6 2 (1.46%) GWAPT
6 2 (1.46%) OSCE
6 2 (1.46%) OSCP
7 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.73%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (24.82%) QA
2 7 (5.11%) Basel II
3 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.46%) Basel III
3 2 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.46%) GDPR
3 2 (1.46%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.46%) IFRS
3 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.46%) SEPA
4 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.73%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.73%) EU AI Act
4 1 (0.73%) GRC
4 1 (0.73%) GxP
4 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.73%) NIST
4 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.73%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.19%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.46%) Docker
3 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.38%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.19%) Control-M
3 2 (1.46%) CA Wily
4 1 (0.73%) Ansible
4 1 (0.73%) Kibana
4 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (16.79%) Oracle
2 12 (8.76%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.57%) SAP
4 8 (5.84%) HP
5 7 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.65%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.92%) Google
8 3 (2.19%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.19%) Databricks
8 3 (2.19%) Murex
8 3 (2.19%) Splunk
9 2 (1.46%) Aareon
9 2 (1.46%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.46%) Avaya
9 2 (1.46%) Calypso
9 2 (1.46%) Civica
9 2 (1.46%) Informatica
9 2 (1.46%) Northgate
9 2 (1.46%) Parasoft
9 2 (1.46%) VMware