Scenario Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 119 144
Rank change year-on-year +21 +25 +19
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 24 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.19% 0.54% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.66% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 7
10th Percentile £272 £313 £360
25th Percentile £340 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £363 £375
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -3.33% -13.19%
75th Percentile £500 £390 £444
90th Percentile - £413 £570
England median daily rate £475 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.80% +11.11%

All Process and 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 1,781 2,261 2,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.30% 81.71% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,528 2,004
10th Percentile £203 £234 £258
25th Percentile £356 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 172 98
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.35
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.63 £18.50 £22.46
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -17.61% +27.88%
75th Percentile £26.51 £34.20 £45.25
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £59.75
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

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 29 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
West Midlands +29 17 £500 +45.45% 27
East Midlands +2 7 £300 -17.24% 18
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (8.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.17%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) OCI
3 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.17%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.17%) DB2
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (54.17%) JIRA
2 4 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (16.67%) Selenium
3 3 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 2 (8.33%) Introscope
4 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (4.17%) Eclipse
5 1 (4.17%) Git
5 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
5 1 (4.17%) JBehave
5 1 (4.17%) Maven
5 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Analyst
2 8 (33.33%) OAT Analyst
2 8 (33.33%) Tester
3 3 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Payroll Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Project Officer
5 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Middleware
2 3 (12.50%) Web Services
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) J2EE
3 2 (8.33%) jQuery
3 2 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) SCADA
2 8 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.17%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) AIX
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Test Strategy
2 8 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 7 (29.17%) Scrum
4 5 (20.83%) Change Management
4 5 (20.83%) Defect Management
4 5 (20.83%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (20.83%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Test Assurance
4 5 (20.83%) Test Management
4 5 (20.83%) Test Scripting
4 5 (20.83%) User Stories
5 4 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.33%) Business Development
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Testing
7 2 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) C
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) COBOL
4 1 (4.17%) JCL
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) HP ALM
2 2 (8.33%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Oracle
2 6 (25.00%) HP
3 5 (20.83%) MuleSoft
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.33%) AppDynamics
5 2 (8.33%) Google
5 2 (8.33%) Splunk
5 2 (8.33%) VMware