Scenario Testing Contracts in the North of England

Scenario Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 147 168 188
Rank change year-on-year +21 +20 +5
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 19 17 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.36% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.42% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 22
10th Percentile £368 £348 £406
25th Percentile £417 £381 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% -17.40% +17.10%
75th Percentile £507 £466 £575
90th Percentile £532 £513 £648
England median daily rate £475 £448 £500
% change year-on-year +6.15% -10.50% +5.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the North of England

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the North of England

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the North of England

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the North of England

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +26 16 £447 +11.75% 10
Yorkshire +1 2 - - 4
North East 0 1 £390 -13.33%
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (10.53%) CICS
1 2 (10.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
1 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
1 3 (15.79%) RDBMS
1 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) DB2
2 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) ERwin
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) Selenium
3 2 (10.53%) SOAtest
4 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.26%) JUnit
4 1 (5.26%) Katalon Studio
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) General Ledger
3 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Tester
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Business Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Data Modeller
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Debt Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Test Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Modeller
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) J2EE
1 2 (10.53%) JSON
1 2 (10.53%) Web Services
1 2 (10.53%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Mainframe
1 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
2 2 (10.53%) VSAM
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
2 7 (36.84%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) SDLC
2 7 (36.84%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (31.58%) Test Strategy
4 5 (26.32%) Migration
4 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
4 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (26.32%) Test Scripting
5 4 (21.05%) Black-Box Testing
5 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
5 4 (21.05%) Programme Delivery
5 4 (21.05%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (21.05%) System Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) Inmon Methodology
6 3 (15.79%) Kimball Methodology
6 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Test Planning
6 3 (15.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Java
1 3 (15.79%) JCL
1 3 (15.79%) REXX
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) Ab Initio
3 2 (10.53%) Informatica
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Parasoft
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft