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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 167 176
Rank change year-on-year +21 +9 +21
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 22 13 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.66% 0.28% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.33% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 22
10th Percentile £351 £338 £408
25th Percentile £378 £369 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% -17.50% +17.37%
75th Percentile £488 £472 £572
90th Percentile £526 £538 £648
England median daily rate £475 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.80% +11.11%

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 2,986 3,985 5,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.91% 84.73% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,922 2,416 3,435
10th Percentile £265 £300 £303
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 380 205
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.34 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -30.18% +45.44%
75th Percentile £51.00 £45.96 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

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 30 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 30 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 +23 19 £447 +11.75% 34
Yorkshire +15 2 - - 26
North East 0 1 £390 -13.33% 7
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 3 (13.64%) CICS
2 2 (9.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP PS
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.55%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (13.64%) Data Lake
2 3 (13.64%) DB2
2 3 (13.64%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
3 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) JIRA
3 3 (13.64%) ERwin
3 3 (13.64%) Selenium
4 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 2 (9.09%) SOAtest
5 1 (4.55%) Eclipse
5 1 (4.55%) Git
5 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
5 1 (4.55%) JUnit
5 1 (4.55%) Maven
5 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) General Ledger
3 2 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Tester
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Data Modeller
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Debt Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Test Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.55%) Designer
4 1 (4.55%) Development Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Java Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Modeller
4 1 (4.55%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) JSON
2 2 (9.09%) J2EE
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
2 2 (9.09%) XML
3 1 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (4.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Mainframe
2 3 (13.64%) Onboarding
2 3 (13.64%) VSAM
3 2 (9.09%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) SDLC
2 6 (27.27%) Test Strategy
2 6 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
3 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (22.73%) Test Scripting
4 4 (18.18%) Black-Box Testing
4 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 4 (18.18%) Programme Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (18.18%) System Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Inmon Methodology
5 3 (13.64%) Kimball Methodology
5 3 (13.64%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Java
2 4 (18.18%) JCL
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) COBOL
3 3 (13.64%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 3 (13.64%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Ab Initio
3 2 (9.09%) Informatica
3 2 (9.09%) Parasoft
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) SAP