Scenario Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scenario Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 299 321
Rank change year-on-year +50 +22 -23
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 91 93 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.45% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.54% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 56 86
10th Percentile £284 £319 £350
25th Percentile £360 £363 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -5.56% +4.41%
75th Percentile £500 £503 £500
90th Percentile £531 £663 £613
UK median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.54 - -
Median hourly rate £19.37 - -
75th Percentile £20.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.18 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 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
Midlands +26 24 £475 +31.03% 61
South East +52 23 £488 +2.63% 82
North of England +21 22 £447 +8.36% 66
North West +23 19 £447 +11.75% 33
West Midlands +30 17 £500 +45.45% 31
Scotland +5 12 £370 -22.21% 21
East Midlands +5 7 £300 -17.24% 25
South West +35 3 £400 -20.00% 41
Wales - 3 £413 - 14
Northern Ireland - 3 £590 - 6
East of England +24 2 - - 36
Yorkshire +15 2 - - 26
North East 0 1 £390 -13.33% 7
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 3 (3.30%) CICS
2 2 (2.20%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.20%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Finacle
1 3 (3.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.10%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.10%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (1.10%) SAP PS
2 1 (1.10%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.99%) Azure
2 9 (9.89%) AWS
3 3 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.20%) GCP
4 2 (2.20%) SaaS
4 2 (2.20%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.10%) GitHub
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.10%) OCI
5 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.10%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) HTTP
2 1 (1.10%) Converged Networks
2 1 (1.10%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) Internet
2 1 (1.10%) Intranet
2 1 (1.10%) LAN
2 1 (1.10%) RTP
2 1 (1.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.79%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.30%) DB2
4 3 (3.30%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.20%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.20%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (1.10%) Power BI
6 1 (1.10%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.10%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (31.87%) JIRA
2 12 (13.19%) Selenium
3 7 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.40%) Git
5 4 (4.40%) LoadRunner
6 3 (3.30%) ERwin
6 3 (3.30%) Postman
6 3 (3.30%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.20%) Introscope
7 2 (2.20%) JMeter
7 2 (2.20%) SOAtest
7 2 (2.20%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.10%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.10%) JBehave
8 1 (1.10%) JUnit
8 1 (1.10%) Maven
8 1 (1.10%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.10%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.98%) Finance
3 18 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (14.29%) Banking
5 8 (8.79%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.40%) Front Office
8 3 (3.30%) General Ledger
8 3 (3.30%) Private Banking
9 2 (2.20%) Back Office
9 2 (2.20%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (28.57%) Analyst
2 14 (15.38%) Tester
3 9 (9.89%) Test Analyst
4 8 (8.79%) OAT Analyst
5 7 (7.69%) Consultant
6 5 (5.49%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Lead
8 3 (3.30%) Automation Tester
8 3 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Business Test Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Data Modeller
8 3 (3.30%) Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Senior
8 3 (3.30%) Test Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) Debt Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.79%) JSON
2 6 (6.59%) J2EE
3 5 (5.49%) Middleware
3 5 (5.49%) REST
3 5 (5.49%) Web Services
3 5 (5.49%) XML
4 4 (4.40%) .NET
4 4 (4.40%) SOAP
5 3 (3.30%) SAP Fiori
6 2 (2.20%) HTML
6 2 (2.20%) jQuery
7 1 (1.10%) Ext JS
7 1 (1.10%) Kafka
7 1 (1.10%) OAuth
7 1 (1.10%) Spring
7 1 (1.10%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.10%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (1.10%) WireMock
7 1 (1.10%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) SCADA
2 9 (9.89%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 7 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.40%) Mainframe
5 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.30%) Derivative
6 3 (3.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (3.30%) VSAM
7 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.20%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.10%) Equities
8 1 (1.10%) FMCG
8 1 (1.10%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.10%) Life Science
8 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Unix
2 3 (3.30%) Windows
3 2 (2.20%) AIX
3 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (40.66%) Test Automation
2 29 (31.87%) Test Strategy
3 26 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (27.47%) Agile
5 19 (20.88%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (15.38%) Migration
6 14 (15.38%) Test Scripting
6 14 (15.38%) Validation
7 13 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
8 11 (12.09%) CI/CD
8 11 (12.09%) DevOps
9 10 (10.99%) Data Modelling
9 10 (10.99%) Defect Management
9 10 (10.99%) Operational Acceptance Testing
9 10 (10.99%) Performance Testing
9 10 (10.99%) Scrum
9 10 (10.99%) Test Management
10 9 (9.89%) Change Management
11 8 (8.79%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) Java
2 15 (16.48%) Python
2 15 (16.48%) SQL
3 4 (4.40%) JCL
4 3 (3.30%) C
4 3 (3.30%) COBOL
4 3 (3.30%) REXX
5 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.10%) C#
6 1 (1.10%) C++
6 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.10%) Ruby
6 1 (1.10%) Scala
6 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (18.68%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.58%) Degree
3 13 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) Master's Degree
5 4 (4.40%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.30%) ISEB
6 3 (3.30%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.10%) GPEN
7 1 (1.10%) GWAPT
7 1 (1.10%) OSCE
7 1 (1.10%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (23.08%) QA
2 5 (5.49%) SEPA
3 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) GxP
5 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.10%) IFRS
5 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) HP ALM
2 2 (2.20%) CA Wily
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Control-M
3 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (18.68%) Oracle
2 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.59%) HP
3 6 (6.59%) SAP
4 5 (5.49%) MuleSoft
5 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.30%) AppDynamics
6 3 (3.30%) Avaloq
6 3 (3.30%) Databricks
6 3 (3.30%) Splunk
6 3 (3.30%) Temenos
7 2 (2.20%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.20%) Google
7 2 (2.20%) Informatica
7 2 (2.20%) Parasoft
7 2 (2.20%) VMware
8 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.10%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.10%) New Relic
8 1 (1.10%) Workday