Scenario Testing Contracts in Scotland

Scenario Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 106 109 129
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 +11
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 10 20 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% 0.90% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 1.02% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 31
10th Percentile £223 £383 £350
25th Percentile £285 £428 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £475 £428
Median % change year-on-year -25.26% +10.98% -4.89%
75th Percentile £392 £505 £469
90th Percentile £404 £536 £500
UK median daily rate £452 £463 £480
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.65% +1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.54 - -
Median hourly rate £19.37 - -
75th Percentile £20.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.18 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in Scotland

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in Scotland

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in Scotland

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in Scotland

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +8 7 £375 -4.76% 1
West Lothian +6 1 £188 -60.11%
Edinburgh -3 1 - - 3
Scenario Testing
UK

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Finacle
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Private Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Back Office
3 2 (20.00%) Front Office
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) J2EE Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Manual Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) Ext JS
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) System Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Wealth Management
3 2 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Change Advisory Board
4 1 (10.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (10.00%) Code Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (10.00%) Server Management
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Avaloq
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
1 3 (30.00%) Temenos
2 1 (10.00%) Avaya
2 1 (10.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (10.00%) Workday