Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Scenario Testing
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 62 91
Rank change year-on-year -16 +29 +4
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 15 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.01% 0.70% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.23% 0.79% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile - - £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £419
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +19.40% -17.89%
75th Percentile £625 £513 £433
90th Percentile £640 £535 £439
South East median daily rate £461 £500 £444
% change year-on-year -7.80% +12.68% +2.01%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,216 635 1,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 82.16% 88.56% 86.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 797 452 700
10th Percentile £326 £350 £375
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +8.57%
75th Percentile £650 £618 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 38 115
10th Percentile £14.30 £20.07 £12.78
25th Percentile £16.17 £28.13 £18.32
Median hourly rate £20.71 £56.38 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.26% +18.68% +5.56%
75th Percentile £40.00 £69.69 £64.38
90th Percentile £53.40 £75.00 £75.16
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -38.89% +3.85% -3.71%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Scenario Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Farnborough -5 9 - - 2
Portsmouth - 3 - - 1
Havant - 2 £600 -
Southampton - 1 £650 -
Scenario Testing
South East

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (20.00%) OCI
1 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) BGP
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) MPLS
1 1 (6.67%) Multicast
1 1 (6.67%) OSPF
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) VLAN
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
1 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Retail
3 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Accountant
1 8 (53.33%) Systems Accountant
2 5 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Cutover Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Validation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Migration
1 12 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 12 (80.00%) Validation
2 11 (73.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (53.33%) Analytics
3 8 (53.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (53.33%) Data Migration
3 8 (53.33%) Data Validation
3 8 (53.33%) Internal Audit
4 4 (26.67%) ERP
5 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (20.00%) Change Management
5 3 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) CCIE
2 1 (6.67%) CCNP
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Iperf
1 1 (6.67%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) IFS
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (6.67%) SolarWinds