Scenario Testing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Scenario Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 45 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.30% 0.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £372 - -
25th Percentile £396 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 - -
75th Percentile £572 - -
90th Percentile £588 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +18.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 737 315 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.71% 92.38% 95.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 181 259
10th Percentile £316 £213 £382
25th Percentile £400 £381 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -4.63% +2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.07 £19.25
25th Percentile - £12.55 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £16.19 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% -28.04% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.00 £29.38
90th Percentile - £20.90 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in South Yorkshire

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Sheffield -37 10 £484 - 5
Scenario Testing
Yorkshire

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) GCP
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
3 6 (60.00%) SaaS
4 2 (20.00%) Akamai
5 1 (10.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Selenium
2 7 (70.00%) Cucumber
2 7 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) Postman
2 7 (70.00%) REST Assured
3 6 (60.00%) JIRA
3 6 (60.00%) TestRail
4 5 (50.00%) GitLab
5 1 (10.00%) JUnit
5 1 (10.00%) Maven
5 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Lead
1 6 (60.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Lead Test Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
1 6 (60.00%) LDAP
1 6 (60.00%) OpenID
1 6 (60.00%) REST
1 6 (60.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (80.00%) API Testing
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) Identity Access Management
3 7 (70.00%) Manual Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Test Scripting
4 6 (60.00%) BDD
4 6 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
4 6 (60.00%) ETL
4 6 (60.00%) GitOps
4 6 (60.00%) TDD
5 5 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 5 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
5 5 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
7 3 (30.00%) Agile
7 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
7 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
3 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (60.00%) PHP
3 6 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk