Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 116 119
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 56 24 12
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.16% 0.92% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.05% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 19 10
10th Percentile £350 £266 £300
25th Percentile £359 £340 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £360 £363
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -0.69% -11.59%
75th Percentile £497 £496 £525
90th Percentile £594 £500 £630
England median daily rate £475 £449 £475
% change year-on-year +5.91% -5.58% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.30 - -
England median hourly rate £27.30 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year -31.75% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,987 2,279 2,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.51% 87.42% 81.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,317 1,484 1,432
10th Percentile £313 £250 £263
25th Percentile £408 £361 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £613
90th Percentile £671 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 174 73
10th Percentile £13.12 £12.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.82 £17.87 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £21.72 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.01% +3.43% -23.64%
75th Percentile £39.04 £27.04 £42.25
90th Percentile £67.84 £48.20 £54.50
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.96% -41.51% +0.58%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
West Midlands -9 51 £405 -19.00% 7
East Midlands -21 4 £432 +23.29% 7
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Lorenzo
2 1 (1.79%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.14%) AWS
2 6 (10.71%) Azure
3 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.36%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.36%) OCI
5 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.57%) GitHub
7 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.79%) Figma
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.79%) Lucidchart
7 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) DHCP
1 3 (5.36%) DNS
1 3 (5.36%) Firewall
1 3 (5.36%) Internet
1 3 (5.36%) LAN
1 3 (5.36%) Network Security
1 3 (5.36%) SD-WAN
1 3 (5.36%) SSL
1 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
1 3 (5.36%) VPN
1 3 (5.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 24 (42.86%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (5.36%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.79%) Looker
3 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (69.64%) JIRA
2 25 (44.64%) Zephyr
3 22 (39.29%) Postman
4 13 (23.21%) Git
5 7 (12.50%) Selenium
6 5 (8.93%) Jenkins
7 4 (7.14%) GitLab
8 3 (5.36%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (5.36%) JMeter
9 2 (3.57%) Cypress.io
9 2 (3.57%) REST Assured
9 2 (3.57%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.79%) Balsamiq
10 1 (1.79%) Eclipse
10 1 (1.79%) IntelliJ
10 1 (1.79%) JUnit
10 1 (1.79%) Maven
10 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.79%) TestNG
10 1 (1.79%) TestRail
General
1 23 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 11 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.71%) Police
5 5 (8.93%) Finance
6 2 (3.57%) Local Government
6 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Automotive
7 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.79%) Legal
7 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.79%) Marketing
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Analyst
2 14 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 13 (23.21%) Tester
4 10 (17.86%) QA Tester
5 8 (14.29%) Lead
6 6 (10.71%) Business Analyst
7 5 (8.93%) QA Analyst
7 5 (8.93%) QA Test Analyst
7 5 (8.93%) Test Leader
8 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Test Manager
9 3 (5.36%) Configuration Analyst
10 2 (3.57%) Consultant
10 2 (3.57%) IT Manager
10 2 (3.57%) IT Project Manager
10 2 (3.57%) Procurement Consultant
10 2 (3.57%) Project Manager
10 2 (3.57%) QA Engineer
10 2 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (5.36%) SAML
1 3 (5.36%) SOAP
2 2 (3.57%) Playwright
2 2 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) Middleware
3 1 (1.79%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.79%) Swagger
3 1 (1.79%) Web Services
3 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) SCADA
2 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.57%) CMDB
4 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Mac OS
1 3 (5.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (60.71%) Migration
1 34 (60.71%) Test Management
2 31 (55.36%) Agile
2 31 (55.36%) Data Migration
2 31 (55.36%) Integration Testing
3 29 (51.79%) Test Automation
3 29 (51.79%) Test Scripting
4 27 (48.21%) End-to-End Testing
5 25 (44.64%) Manual Testing
5 25 (44.64%) System Testing
6 24 (42.86%) ETL
7 22 (39.29%) Customer Requirements
8 20 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (21.43%) Defect Management
9 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (21.43%) Validation
10 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
12 7 (12.50%) Test Strategy
12 7 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 19 (33.93%) SQL
2 6 (10.71%) Python
3 2 (3.57%) Java
3 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (51.79%) Security Cleared
2 28 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (32.14%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.79%) ACCA
5 1 (1.79%) APMG
5 1 (1.79%) CCAB
5 1 (1.79%) CIMA
5 1 (1.79%) IIBA
5 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (51.79%) QA
2 3 (5.36%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.36%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.79%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (51.79%) Oracle
2 5 (8.93%) SAP
2 5 (8.93%) Talend
3 4 (7.14%) Denodo
4 3 (5.36%) Citrix
4 3 (5.36%) Zscaler
5 2 (3.57%) Ariba
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.57%) Snow
5 2 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.79%) MEDITECH
6 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.79%) Sage