Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in Reading

Scenario Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 59 -
Rank change year-on-year -23 - -
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 12 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.06% 1.02% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 1.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £500 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £525 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £425 £500 -
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -

All Process & 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 946 542 1,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 83.57% 92.18% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 344 528
10th Percentile £351 £350 £331
25th Percentile £454 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £580
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.33% +5.45%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £731 £700 £714
Berkshire median daily rate £518 £505 £540
% change year-on-year +2.48% -6.48% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 17 40
10th Percentile £56.15 - £14.50
25th Percentile £80.75 £14.75 £52.55
Median hourly rate £85.00 £20.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +309.64% -66.31% -5.41%
75th Percentile £88.00 £38.42 £85.16
90th Percentile £106.90 £60.50 £87.50
Berkshire median hourly rate £84.00 £37.28 £61.60
% change year-on-year +125.32% -39.48% +2.67%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in Reading

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in Reading

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Lead
1 6 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 5 (41.67%) Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Test Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Business Test Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle Payroll Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Payroll Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Transformation Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Senior UAT Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Transformation Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) UAT Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) UAT Test Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (25.00%) Validation
4 2 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) User Stories
4 2 (16.67%) Workforce Optimisation
4 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.33%) QMS
5 1 (8.33%) Quality Management
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GRC
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Ceridian
2 1 (8.33%) NGA Human Resources
2 1 (8.33%) SAP