Scenario Testing Contracts in the North West

Scenario Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Scenario Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 151 161
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 -36
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 6 10 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.23% 0.32% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.35% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 14
10th Percentile £333 £415 £411
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £426
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.37% +13.60%
75th Percentile £463 £563 £456
90th Percentile £545 £620 £526
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Scenario Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,283 2,831 3,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.83% 90.48% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 1,995 2,611
10th Percentile £308 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 139 172
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.80 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.44
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.00 £23.55
Median % change year-on-year -34.72% +52.90% +27.82%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.46 £50.01
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the North West

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the North West

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the North West

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the North West

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
Manchester +13 4 £425 -15.00%
Cheshire - 2 £363 - 1
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP EWM
1 1 (16.67%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
1 1 (16.67%) Commercetools
1 1 (16.67%) Google Workspace
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
1 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Process Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Process Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) HR Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) API Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Logistics
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Product Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Ceridian
1 1 (16.67%) HP
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (16.67%) SAP