Scenario Testing Contracts in Northampton

Scenario Testing
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 7 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 3.21% 3.03% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 3.28% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £265 £334 -
25th Percentile £274 £348 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £390 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% - -
75th Percentile £366 £420 -
90th Percentile £430 £434 -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £340 £363 -
% change year-on-year -6.21% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 207 183 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 94.95% 92.42% 83.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 142 80
10th Percentile £259 £355 £189
25th Percentile £332 £373 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -13.98%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £500
90th Percentile £500 £620 £609
Northamptonshire median daily rate £391 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -12.25% +11.25% -13.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile £16.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -3.58% +18.53%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +68.93%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in Northampton

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in Northampton

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in Northampton over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in Northampton

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 (28.57%) CICS
1 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
3 2 (28.57%) DB2
3 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Cucumber
1 4 (57.14%) REST Assured
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) IntelliJ
2 2 (28.57%) Introscope
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
2 2 (28.57%) Maven
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Automation Tester
1 4 (57.14%) Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) J2EE
1 2 (28.57%) jQuery
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Mainframe
1 2 (28.57%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) AIX
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
1 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
1 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Business Development
3 2 (28.57%) Coaching
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C
3 2 (28.57%) COBOL
3 2 (28.57%) JCL
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) AppDynamics
2 2 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) HP