Scenario Testing Contracts in London

Scenario Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 295 268 355
Rank change year-on-year -27 +87 +53
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 58 124 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.70% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.79% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 85 101
10th Percentile £369 £332 £360
25th Percentile £404 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% -20.83% +26.32%
75th Percentile £649 £570 £730
90th Percentile £769 £623 £800
England median daily rate £475 £448 £500
% change year-on-year +6.15% -10.50% +5.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in London

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in London

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in London

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in London

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London -7 11 £725 +43.56% 11
South London +7 1 - -
North London -4 1 £440 +17.33%
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (5.17%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
2 2 (3.45%) Drupal
2 2 (3.45%) IIS
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.72%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle E-Business Tax
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (5.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.72%) Misys Midas
4 1 (1.72%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.72%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.72%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.79%) AWS
1 8 (13.79%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (6.90%) GCP
3 3 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (5.17%) Datadog
3 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.17%) SaaS
4 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.45%) OCI
4 2 (3.45%) Twilio
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.72%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) DHCP
1 4 (6.90%) DNS
1 4 (6.90%) DOCSIS
1 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
1 4 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (5.17%) Network Security
2 3 (5.17%) VLAN
2 3 (5.17%) Wireless
3 2 (3.45%) HTTP
4 1 (1.72%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
1 3 (5.17%) Data Mining
1 3 (5.17%) InfluxDB
1 3 (5.17%) Looker
1 3 (5.17%) Power BI
1 3 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) Data Mart
2 2 (3.45%) MySQL
2 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.72%) DB2
3 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) JIRA
2 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) REST Assured
4 4 (6.90%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.17%) Ant
5 3 (5.17%) JMeter
5 3 (5.17%) Postman
6 2 (3.45%) Git
6 2 (3.45%) Selenium
7 1 (1.72%) Apache Ivy
7 1 (1.72%) GitLab
7 1 (1.72%) Gradle
7 1 (1.72%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.72%) Maven
7 1 (1.72%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.72%) TestComplete
7 1 (1.72%) TestRail
General
1 22 (37.93%) Finance
2 17 (29.31%) Social Skills
3 16 (27.59%) Banking
4 10 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.90%) General Ledger
6 4 (6.90%) Legal
7 3 (5.17%) Back Office
8 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.72%) International Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Local Government
9 1 (1.72%) Marketing
9 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.72%) Retail
9 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Senior
2 11 (18.97%) Consultant
3 9 (15.52%) Lead
4 8 (13.79%) Analyst
5 7 (12.07%) Tester
6 6 (10.34%) Risk Consultant
6 6 (10.34%) Test Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) IT Manager
8 4 (6.90%) Java Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
8 4 (6.90%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Test Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Test Leader
8 4 (6.90%) Test Manager
9 3 (5.17%) IT Project Manager
9 3 (5.17%) QA Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior IT Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Senior IT Project Manager
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) Playwright
1 4 (6.90%) REST
2 3 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.17%) Jest
2 3 (5.17%) Node.js
3 2 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (3.45%) Kafka
3 2 (3.45%) WebSockets
4 1 (1.72%) ATL
4 1 (1.72%) pytest
4 1 (1.72%) RESTful
4 1 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Market Risk
1 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (6.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.17%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (5.17%) Housing Association
3 3 (5.17%) Replication
3 3 (5.17%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (3.45%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.45%) Derivative
4 2 (3.45%) IoT
4 2 (3.45%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (3.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.72%) Equities
5 1 (1.72%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (34.48%) Test Automation
2 19 (32.76%) Agile
3 17 (29.31%) User Acceptance Testing
4 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (22.41%) CI/CD
6 11 (18.97%) Test Scripting
6 11 (18.97%) Test Strategy
7 10 (17.24%) Validation
8 9 (15.52%) Scrum
9 8 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (13.79%) Risk Management
9 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (12.07%) Acceptance Criteria
10 7 (12.07%) DevOps
10 7 (12.07%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (12.07%) Stress Testing
11 6 (10.34%) Defect Management
11 6 (10.34%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 6 (10.34%) Integration Testing
11 6 (10.34%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (24.14%) SQL
2 11 (18.97%) Java
3 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.34%) Python
4 5 (8.62%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.17%) C
5 3 (5.17%) C++
5 3 (5.17%) Go
6 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Degree
2 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.72%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (27.59%) QA
2 4 (6.90%) Basel II
3 2 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.45%) Basel III
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.72%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.72%) GRC
4 1 (1.72%) IFRS
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
4 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Grafana
2 2 (3.45%) Control-M
3 1 (1.72%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Oracle
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) SAP
3 3 (5.17%) Murex
3 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.17%) Splunk
4 2 (3.45%) Aareon
4 2 (3.45%) Avaya
4 2 (3.45%) Calypso
4 2 (3.45%) Civica
4 2 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) HP
4 2 (3.45%) Northgate
5 1 (1.72%) Ariba
5 1 (1.72%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.72%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) Sitecore