Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Scenario Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 23 25
Rank change year-on-year -18 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.55% 3.11% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 3.33% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £287 £280 -
25th Percentile £334 £309 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £356 £363
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -1.72% -18.08%
75th Percentile £371 £388 £369
90th Percentile £390 £410 -
East Midlands median daily rate £360 £363 £350
% change year-on-year -0.69% +3.57% -31.71%

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 237 150 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.86% 93.17% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 117 112
10th Percentile £323 £307 £224
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £403 £481
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -16.23% +9.20%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £534
90th Percentile £550 £615 £586
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £436 £475
% change year-on-year -3.56% -8.32% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 14
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.01
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £22.05 £21.52
% change year-on-year -9.28% +2.46% +27.84%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scenario Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Scenario Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 19 December 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 19 December 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 -14 4 £360 +38.46%
Scenario Testing
East Midlands

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Load Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Coaching
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (75.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (75.00%) New Relic
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft