Scenario Testing Contracts in Reading

Scenario Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 55 90 85
Rank change year-on-year +35 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 5 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 0.084% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.093% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £485 - £336
25th Percentile - - £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.53%
75th Percentile £600 - £497
90th Percentile - - £529
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £439
% change year-on-year +5.26% +8.26% -7.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in Reading

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in Reading

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (40.00%) Metasploit
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Automation Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Applications Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) IT Governance
2 2 (40.00%) OWASP
2 2 (40.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) GPEN
2 2 (40.00%) GWAPT
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (40.00%) OSCE
2 2 (40.00%) OSCP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft