Scenario Testing Contracts in the North West

Scenario Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 109 127 143
Rank change year-on-year +18 +16 +18
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 19 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.98% 0.22% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.26% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 9
10th Percentile £349 £333 £420
25th Percentile £377 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% -20.00% +17.10%
75th Percentile £494 £463 £525
90th Percentile £528 £545 £610
England median daily rate £475 £456 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -8.80% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,753 2,295 2,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.08% 85.19% 90.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 1,449 1,936
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £588 £588
90th Percentile £662 £676 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 261 139
10th Percentile £13.88 £11.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.72 £14.00 £22.27
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -25.71% +52.17%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £48.38
90th Percentile £84.80 £66.61 £66.00
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 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 29 May 2025.

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 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
Cheshire +8 12 £447 +23.31% 10
Manchester +24 4 £450 +5.88% 18
Merseyside - 2 £425 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) CICS
2 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%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 3 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
2 3 (15.79%) DB2
2 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.79%) RDBMS
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 4 (21.05%) JIRA
3 3 (15.79%) ERwin
3 3 (15.79%) Selenium
4 2 (10.53%) SOAtest
5 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.26%) Eclipse
5 1 (5.26%) Git
5 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
5 1 (5.26%) Maven
5 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (15.79%) Banking
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) General Ledger
2 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) 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 Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Designer
4 1 (5.26%) Development Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Modeller
4 1 (5.26%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) JSON
2 2 (10.53%) J2EE
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Mainframe
1 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
1 3 (15.79%) VSAM
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
2 6 (31.58%) Agile
2 6 (31.58%) SDLC
2 6 (31.58%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (26.32%) Migration
3 5 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (26.32%) Test Scripting
3 5 (26.32%) Test Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) Black-Box Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
4 4 (21.05%) Programme Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (21.05%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (21.05%) System Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) Inmon Methodology
5 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) COBOL
3 3 (15.79%) JCL
4 2 (10.53%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) SEPA
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Ab Initio
3 2 (10.53%) Informatica
3 2 (10.53%) Parasoft
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft