Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Scenario Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 13 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.42% - 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% - 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £325 - -
25th Percentile £333 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £410
75th Percentile £374 - £415
90th Percentile £398 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £350 £475 £443
% change year-on-year -26.32% +7.34% -23.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 461 136 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 85.69% 95.77% 59.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 361 87 29
10th Percentile £380 £270 £308
25th Percentile £414 £385 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +18.75% -25.93%
75th Percentile £525 £521 £460
90th Percentile £562 £567 £534
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 £12.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.52 £18.63 £23.00
% change year-on-year +15.54% -19.02% +29.80%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in Shropshire

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
Telford - 13 £350 - 4
Scenario Testing
West Midlands

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 5 (38.46%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Kong
2 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (69.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (92.31%) JIRA
2 10 (76.92%) Zephyr
3 9 (69.23%) Postman
4 6 (46.15%) Git
5 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 1 (7.69%) GitLab
5 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.69%) JUnit
5 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) QA Tester
1 8 (61.54%) Tester
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Pega Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) ETL Tester
4 1 (7.69%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Camel
1 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
1 1 (7.69%) SOAP
1 1 (7.69%) Spring
1 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
1 1 (7.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Agile
2 11 (84.62%) Test Automation
3 10 (76.92%) Data Migration
3 10 (76.92%) End-to-End Testing
3 10 (76.92%) ETL
3 10 (76.92%) Migration
3 10 (76.92%) Test Scripting
4 9 (69.23%) Integration Testing
4 9 (69.23%) System Testing
4 9 (69.23%) Test Management
5 8 (61.54%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (46.15%) Manual Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 2 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (15.38%) User Stories
8 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 11 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 7 (53.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Sage
3 2 (15.38%) Pega
3 2 (15.38%) Talend