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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 172 190
Rank change year-on-year +48 +18 -7
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 24 28 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.80% 0.49% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.59% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 18
10th Percentile £321 £339 £363
25th Percentile £370 £438 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £420
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +13.10% -2.61%
75th Percentile £525 £725 £542
90th Percentile £565 £755 £559
England median daily rate £475 £462 £500
% change year-on-year +2.81% -7.60% +11.11%

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 2,734 4,753 5,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.50% 82.73% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,746 2,744 3,452
10th Percentile £250 £261 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £504
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -0.50% +0.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £660 £700 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 470 221
10th Percentile £13.23 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.32 £24.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +138.64%
75th Percentile £58.73 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.04 £75.00
England median hourly rate £27.64 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.29% +4.17% +40.19%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +43 19 £500 +6.67% 13
Berkshire +43 13 £500 +5.26% 10
Buckinghamshire +15 6 £385 -16.76% 3
Surrey +17 3 £325 -55.17% 2
Hampshire +25 2 £550 +25.71% 2
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 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) JIRA
2 6 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) Burp Suite
3 1 (4.17%) Metasploit
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Coordinator
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Test Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) SAP Test Coordinator
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Applications Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Test Coordinator
4 2 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) .NET
1 2 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 14 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (33.33%) Validation
4 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 6 (25.00%) Functional Testing
5 6 (25.00%) Mathematics
5 6 (25.00%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Optimization Problems
6 5 (20.83%) Data Collection
6 5 (20.83%) Performance Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Integration Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Load Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Test Management
7 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 4 (16.67%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) Java
3 6 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) VB
5 1 (4.17%) C
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
3 4 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) GPEN
4 1 (4.17%) GWAPT
4 1 (4.17%) OSCE
4 1 (4.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (58.33%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (12.50%) SAP
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint