Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in the North East

Scenario Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.01% - 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £444 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.69%
75th Percentile £525 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% +3.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 348 282 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.88% 93.38% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 135 151
10th Percentile £178 £305 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £590 £575
90th Percentile £597 £712 £710
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 10
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.13 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £28.91 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.27% +5.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

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

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the North East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the North East

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Tyne and Wear - 3 £500 - 7
Durham - 1 £500 -
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Gatling
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) TestRail
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft