Scenario Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scenario Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 343 303
Rank change year-on-year +61 -40 +12
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 113 121 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.50% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.56% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 91 140
10th Percentile £324 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £432
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.27% +1.65%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £502
90th Percentile £600 £600 £589
UK median daily rate £475 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.35
25th Percentile - - £16.50
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - £21.45
UK median hourly rate - - £25.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,565 21,758 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.96% 89.54% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,604 15,078 19,433
10th Percentile £243 £250 £231
25th Percentile £381 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 1,347 1,390
10th Percentile £12.29 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +87.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.69 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% +0.83%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the UK excluding London

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the UK excluding London

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the UK excluding London

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the UK excluding London

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East +5 30 £475 +14.46% 12
Scotland +33 22 £475 +10.98% 1
Midlands +48 20 £363 -3.33% 7
North of England +32 19 £419 -16.20% 9
East Midlands +24 15 £363 -3.33% 4
South West +22 13 £500 +2.04% 1
North West +25 9 £425 -5.56% 5
East of England +20 9 £375 -46.43% 8
Yorkshire +15 9 £413 -17.40% 3
West Midlands +36 5 £344 -47.12% 3
North East +23 1 £450 -28.00% 1
Scenario Testing
UK

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (6.19%) Confluence
2 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) IIS
3 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (2.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.77%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.88%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.88%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.88%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.62%) Azure
2 9 (7.96%) AWS
3 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.42%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.65%) OCI
7 2 (1.77%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.88%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.88%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.88%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.88%) SaaS
8 1 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.31%) Firewall
2 2 (1.77%) 5G
3 1 (0.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.88%) LAN
3 1 (0.88%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.54%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (3.54%) MS Access
1 4 (3.54%) Oracle Database
1 4 (3.54%) Power BI
1 4 (3.54%) Tableau
2 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.88%) SAS Enterprise Guide
2 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (20.35%) JIRA
2 13 (11.50%) Cucumber
3 11 (9.73%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.73%) Selenium
4 9 (7.96%) Postman
5 8 (7.08%) JUnit
6 7 (6.19%) Git
7 6 (5.31%) JMeter
8 5 (4.42%) LoadRunner
9 3 (2.65%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.77%) Maven
10 2 (1.77%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.77%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.77%) TestDirector
10 2 (1.77%) TestNG
10 2 (1.77%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.88%) Appium
11 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (27.43%) Finance
2 29 (25.66%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.96%) Retail
6 6 (5.31%) Legal
7 5 (4.42%) Banking
7 5 (4.42%) Games
8 4 (3.54%) Billing
9 3 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.77%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Automotive
11 1 (0.88%) Back Office
11 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.88%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Local Government
11 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (37.17%) Analyst
2 22 (19.47%) Test Analyst
3 15 (13.27%) Lead
3 15 (13.27%) Senior
3 15 (13.27%) Tester
4 13 (11.50%) Test Leader
5 10 (8.85%) Test Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Data Analyst
7 8 (7.08%) Automation Tester
7 8 (7.08%) Developer
8 7 (6.19%) Test Manager
8 7 (6.19%) UAT Analyst
9 6 (5.31%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Oracle Analyst
10 5 (4.42%) Project Analyst
10 5 (4.42%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Business Manager
12 3 (2.65%) Business Analyst
12 3 (2.65%) Business Process Analyst
12 3 (2.65%) Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) REST
2 7 (6.19%) J2EE
2 7 (6.19%) Kafka
2 7 (6.19%) Spring
3 6 (5.31%) Apache Camel
3 6 (5.31%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (4.42%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.54%) ADO
5 4 (3.54%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.77%) .NET
6 2 (1.77%) JSON
6 2 (1.77%) Swagger
6 2 (1.77%) XML
7 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.88%) OpenAPI
7 1 (0.88%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.88%) SPFx
7 1 (0.88%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.42%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (4.42%) PKI
2 4 (3.54%) e-Health
3 3 (2.65%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.77%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.77%) NHS
4 2 (1.77%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.42%) Unix
2 3 (2.65%) Windows
3 2 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.88%) AIX
4 1 (0.88%) Android
4 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.88%) Linux
4 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (44.25%) User Acceptance Testing
2 33 (29.20%) Test Scripting
3 32 (28.32%) Agile
3 32 (28.32%) Test Automation
4 29 (25.66%) Test Strategy
5 24 (21.24%) Test Management
6 21 (18.58%) End-to-End Testing
7 18 (15.93%) Functional Testing
8 17 (15.04%) Performance Testing
8 17 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (15.04%) System Integration Testing
9 16 (14.16%) Test Planning
10 15 (13.27%) Migration
10 15 (13.27%) Regression Testing
11 12 (10.62%) Acceptance Criteria
11 12 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (9.73%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (9.73%) Manual Testing
13 10 (8.85%) Defect Management
13 10 (8.85%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.04%) SQL
2 12 (10.62%) Java
3 9 (7.96%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.19%) Python
5 6 (5.31%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.77%) C#
7 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.88%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.88%) Scala
8 1 (0.88%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 15 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.19%) Degree
2 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.88%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.24%) QA
2 9 (7.96%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.42%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.65%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.88%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.77%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (24.78%) Oracle
2 10 (8.85%) SAP
3 5 (4.42%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.42%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.54%) Alteryx
4 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.54%) Workday
5 2 (1.77%) IFS
6 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.88%) Avaya
6 1 (0.88%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.88%) Ceridian
6 1 (0.88%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (0.88%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.88%) HP
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.88%) Sparx
6 1 (0.88%) VMware