Scenario Testing Contracts in the South East

Scenario Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Scenario Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 180 188
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -15
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 30 36 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.62% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.69% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 43
10th Percentile £341 £225 £313
25th Percentile £417 £306 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £480
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -13.54% -4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £500 £550
90th Percentile £755 £546 £675
England median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Scenario Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,738 5,226 6,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.09% 89.47% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 3,619 4,727
10th Percentile £232 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £698 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 219 290
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.29 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +7 8 £450 +16.13% 3
Surrey +7 7 £725 +190.00% 3
Hampshire +3 7 £438 -8.38% 3
Buckinghamshire +28 5 £450 +20.00%
West Sussex +7 4 - -
Berkshire -9 2 £475 +8.26% 2
East Sussex - 2 £300 - 1
Kent - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 - 1
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 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) IIS
1 1 (3.33%) SAS
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (3.33%) SAP EWM
1 1 (3.33%) SAP Payroll
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.33%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
1 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.67%) AWS
3 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (13.33%) MS Access
1 4 (13.33%) Power BI
1 4 (13.33%) Tableau
2 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (3.33%) Appium
3 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (3.33%) Postman
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Retail
4 5 (16.67%) Legal
5 4 (13.33%) Billing
6 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Banking
7 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
8 1 (3.33%) Automotive
8 1 (3.33%) Back Office
8 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Business Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Project Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Business Change Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Change Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Head of Cybersecurity
5 2 (6.67%) Head of Security
5 2 (6.67%) SAP Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Automation Test Lead
6 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Lead
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Test Practitioner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) .NET
1 1 (3.33%) ADO
1 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (3.33%) JSON
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.33%) REST
1 1 (3.33%) SOAP
1 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) PKI
2 4 (13.33%) e-Health
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Unix
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Test Scripting
1 11 (36.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (26.67%) Test Strategy
3 7 (23.33%) Regression Testing
3 7 (23.33%) System Integration Testing
3 7 (23.33%) Test Automation
4 6 (20.00%) Agile
4 6 (20.00%) Migration
4 6 (20.00%) Scrum
4 6 (20.00%) Test Management
5 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (16.67%) Cryptography
5 5 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (16.67%) SIEM
6 4 (13.33%) Business Case
6 4 (13.33%) Business Strategy
6 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 4 (13.33%) Data Management
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.33%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) C#
3 1 (3.33%) Scala
3 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Terminal Services
2 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (3.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
1 6 (20.00%) SAP
2 4 (13.33%) Alteryx
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Blue Prism
4 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) Workday