Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in the South East

Scenario Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 153 173
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 -22
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 40 17 31
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.91% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.52% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 11 27
10th Percentile £291 £363 £390
25th Percentile £373 £378 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% +14.29% +21.53%
75th Percentile £575 - £544
90th Percentile £604 £550 £633
England median daily rate £475 £475 £488
% change year-on-year - -2.56% +3.17%

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 3,725 3,287 4,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.18% 88.29% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,436 2,048 2,911
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.46%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 126 229
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.67 £17.80
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.06 £26.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £47.51 £54.39
Median % change year-on-year -53.14% -12.64% +45.03%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.32 £65.86
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.93 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in the South East

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scenario Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scenario Testing

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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the South East

Scenario Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scenario Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scenario Testing

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 20 December 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 +14 31 £461 +18.97% 2
Berkshire +14 23 £525 +31.25% 1
Buckinghamshire +13 8 £268 -28.53% 1
Hampshire -15 7 £390 -22.00% 1
Surrey 0 2 £500 +31.58%
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.50%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) BGP
1 2 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (5.00%) Firewall
1 2 (5.00%) MPLS
1 2 (5.00%) Multicast
1 2 (5.00%) OSPF
1 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.00%) VLAN
1 2 (5.00%) VPN
1 2 (5.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) JIRA
2 5 (12.50%) Selenium
3 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.50%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 5 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Automotive
5 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Test Manager
2 8 (20.00%) Tester
3 6 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Lead
3 6 (15.00%) Test Leader
4 5 (12.50%) Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Automation Tester
5 4 (10.00%) Selenium Automation Tester
5 4 (10.00%) Selenium Tester
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 4 (10.00%) Test Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Strategy Manager
6 3 (7.50%) Test Strategy Manager
6 3 (7.50%) UAT Lead
6 3 (7.50%) UAT Test Lead
7 2 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) Test Strategist
7 2 (5.00%) Validation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) SOAP
2 4 (10.00%) .NET
2 4 (10.00%) JWT
2 4 (10.00%) OAuth
2 4 (10.00%) REST
2 4 (10.00%) RESTful
2 4 (10.00%) SAML
3 2 (5.00%) Swagger
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (2.50%) XML
4 1 (2.50%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Unix
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) Test Automation
2 17 (42.50%) Agile
3 16 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 16 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 16 (40.00%) Validation
4 15 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (35.00%) Regression Testing
6 13 (32.50%) Test Scripting
7 12 (30.00%) Test Management
8 11 (27.50%) DevOps
9 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
9 9 (22.50%) End-to-End Testing
9 9 (22.50%) ERP
9 9 (22.50%) Resilience Testing
9 9 (22.50%) Software Testing
10 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (20.00%) Defect Management
10 8 (20.00%) Integration Testing
10 8 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (17.50%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) C#
4 2 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) Korn
5 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.50%) ISTQB
4 6 (15.00%) AWS Certification
5 5 (12.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (5.00%) CCIE
6 2 (5.00%) CCNP
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.00%) Degree
7 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.50%) ISEB
7 1 (2.50%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (2.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (40.00%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Ansible
1 2 (5.00%) Iperf
1 2 (5.00%) Nmap
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) CheckPoint
1 7 (17.50%) ServiceNow
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle
3 5 (12.50%) Workday
4 4 (10.00%) SAP
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.50%) Compaq
6 1 (2.50%) HP
6 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.50%) Terracotta
6 1 (2.50%) webMethods