Scenario Testing Contracts in Northamptonshire

Scenario Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 21 15 33
Rank change year-on-year -6 +18 -
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 5 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.42% 5.10% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 5.71% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile £286 £346 £279
25th Percentile £325 £356 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £363 £315
Median % change year-on-year +7.86% +15.08% -
75th Percentile £425 £407 £341
90th Percentile £463 £422 £356
East Midlands median daily rate £371 £363 £375
% change year-on-year +2.21% -3.33% -6.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in Northamptonshire

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in Northamptonshire

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in Northamptonshire

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -7 3 £391 +0.26% 4
Daventry +1 2 £375 +3.45%
Scenario Testing
East Midlands

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (40.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Introscope
1 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Business Development
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Extraction
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) System Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Accounts Payable
4 1 (20.00%) Accounts Receivable
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) HP