Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Scenario Testing
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 38 -
Rank change year-on-year -47 - -
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 14 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.72% 0.42% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 0.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £372 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £566 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £453 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 773 227 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.85% 95.38% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 140 217
10th Percentile £351 £220 £360
25th Percentile £413 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.60% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £14.44 £12.10 -
25th Percentile £15.34 £12.62 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.34 £14.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -34.02% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile - £16.97 £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £13.23
% change year-on-year +21.29% +12.21% +24.46%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in Sheffield over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in Sheffield

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
1 11 (78.57%) GCP
2 10 (71.43%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) SaaS
4 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) Akamai
5 1 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) MySQL
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Jenkins
1 11 (78.57%) Postman
2 10 (71.43%) JIRA
3 8 (57.14%) GitLab
3 8 (57.14%) Selenium
4 7 (50.00%) Cucumber
4 7 (50.00%) REST Assured
5 6 (42.86%) TestRail
6 3 (21.43%) Gatling
6 3 (21.43%) JMeter
6 3 (21.43%) LoadRunner
6 3 (21.43%) NeoLoad
7 1 (7.14%) JUnit
7 1 (7.14%) Maven
7 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
7 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
7 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Test Automation Engineer
1 9 (64.29%) Test Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Lead
3 5 (35.71%) Automation Test Lead
4 4 (28.57%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) Test Leader
6 1 (7.14%) Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Test Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) LDAP
1 9 (64.29%) OpenID
1 9 (64.29%) REST
1 9 (64.29%) SailPoint
2 6 (42.86%) .NET
3 4 (28.57%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 11 (78.57%) API Testing
2 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) Identity Access Management
2 11 (78.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 11 (78.57%) Test Scripting
3 10 (71.43%) Data Ingestion
4 9 (64.29%) DevOps
4 9 (64.29%) ETL
4 9 (64.29%) GitOps
5 8 (57.14%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 8 (57.14%) System Integration Testing
5 8 (57.14%) Test Strategy
5 8 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (50.00%) Manual Testing
7 6 (42.86%) BDD
7 6 (42.86%) TDD
8 5 (35.71%) Agile
9 4 (28.57%) Process Improvement
9 4 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 10 (71.43%) Python
3 7 (50.00%) SQL
4 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 6 (42.86%) PHP
5 4 (28.57%) Scala
5 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
6 3 (21.43%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) F5
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Tenable