Scenario Testing Contracts in the South East

Scenario Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 134 175 189
Rank change year-on-year +41 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 25 30 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.83% 0.54% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.64% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 28
10th Percentile £338 £341 £225
25th Percentile £417 £417 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £418
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +13.77% -13.02%
75th Percentile - £725 £504
90th Percentile £563 £755 £547
England median daily rate £475 £448 £500
% change year-on-year +6.15% -10.50% +5.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the South East

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the South East

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the South East

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the South East

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +52 17 £500 +11.11% 23
Berkshire +42 13 £500 +5.26% 11
Hampshire +23 4 £500 +14.29% 15
Buckinghamshire +15 4 £410 -8.89% 8
Surrey +14 4 £325 -55.17% 9
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) SaaS
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Selenium
2 3 (12.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) Burp Suite
3 2 (8.00%) Metasploit
4 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.00%) JMeter
4 1 (4.00%) Mocha
4 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (12.00%) Analyst
1 3 (12.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (8.00%) Automation Developer
2 2 (8.00%) Coordinator
2 2 (8.00%) Developer
2 2 (8.00%) Lead
2 2 (8.00%) Penetration Tester
2 2 (8.00%) SAP Test Coordinator
2 2 (8.00%) Senior
2 2 (8.00%) Senior Applications Developer
2 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (8.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (8.00%) Test Coordinator
2 2 (8.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (8.00%) Tester
3 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Playwright
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth
3 1 (4.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (36.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 9 (36.00%) Mathematics
4 8 (32.00%) Data Modelling
4 8 (32.00%) Optimization Problems
5 7 (28.00%) Agile
5 7 (28.00%) Data Collection
5 7 (28.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (24.00%) Functional Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Test Strategy
7 5 (20.00%) Validation
8 4 (16.00%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (16.00%) BDD
8 4 (16.00%) Migration
8 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (12.00%) DevOps
9 3 (12.00%) Integration Testing
9 3 (12.00%) Manual Testing
9 3 (12.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Java
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) C
4 2 (8.00%) C++
4 2 (8.00%) Ruby
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 7 (28.00%) Master's Degree
2 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) GPEN
4 2 (8.00%) GWAPT
4 2 (8.00%) OSCE
4 2 (8.00%) OSCP
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (56.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (8.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) SAP
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint