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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 311 297
Rank change year-on-year +6 -14 +18
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 96 119 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.52% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.59% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 82 158
10th Percentile £328 £363 £313
25th Percentile £363 £402 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £426
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.63% +8.19%
75th Percentile £558 £519 £489
90th Percentile £638 £636 £550
UK median daily rate £469 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +17 27 £475 +13.10% 12
South West +4 18 £525 +13.51% 4
North of England +4 16 £425 -15.00% 4
Midlands +19 15 £363 -3.33% 1
East of England +13 13 £375 -46.43% 5
East Midlands +10 12 £363 -3.33% 1
Scotland +25 7 £475 +10.98% 1
Yorkshire +5 7 £400 -20.00% 1
North West +8 6 £400 -20.00% 3
West Midlands +17 3 £344 -40.22%
North East - 3 £425 -
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 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (8.33%) SAP ERP
1 8 (8.33%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (2.08%) SAP EWM
2 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.04%) Maximo
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.04%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.04%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.38%) Azure
2 8 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
3 5 (5.21%) AWS
3 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.21%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.04%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.04%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.04%) Commercetools
5 1 (1.04%) GitHub
5 1 (1.04%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.04%) Internet
2 1 (1.04%) LAN
2 1 (1.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (4.17%) MS Access
1 4 (4.17%) Oracle Database
1 4 (4.17%) Power BI
1 4 (4.17%) Tableau
2 2 (2.08%) Apache Hive
2 2 (2.08%) Big Data
2 2 (2.08%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.08%) Impala
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.04%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (12.50%) JIRA
2 11 (11.46%) Selenium
3 8 (8.33%) JMeter
4 7 (7.29%) Cucumber
4 7 (7.29%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.17%) LoadRunner
5 4 (4.17%) Postman
6 3 (3.13%) Git
7 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.08%) JUnit
7 2 (2.08%) Maven
7 2 (2.08%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.08%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.04%) Appium
8 1 (1.04%) GitLab
8 1 (1.04%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (1.04%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (1.04%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 27 (28.13%) Finance
3 14 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Retail
5 7 (7.29%) Banking
6 6 (6.25%) Billing
6 6 (6.25%) Games
7 5 (5.21%) Legal
7 5 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.13%) Local Government
10 2 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.04%) Back Office
11 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.04%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (28.13%) Analyst
2 16 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 16 (16.67%) Tester
3 14 (14.58%) Lead
4 12 (12.50%) Senior
4 12 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 8 (8.33%) Automation Tester
5 8 (8.33%) Data Analyst
6 6 (6.25%) SAP Subject Matter Expert
6 6 (6.25%) Subject Matter Expert
6 6 (6.25%) Test Manager
7 5 (5.21%) Oracle Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Business Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Consultant
8 4 (4.17%) Project Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Business Process Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.17%) Gherkin
2 3 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (3.13%) Visualforce
3 2 (2.08%) .NET
3 2 (2.08%) JSON
3 2 (2.08%) Kafka
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.08%) Spring
3 2 (2.08%) XML
4 1 (1.04%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.04%) ADO
4 1 (1.04%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.04%) HTML
4 1 (1.04%) Middleware
4 1 (1.04%) Node.js
4 1 (1.04%) REST
4 1 (1.04%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.04%) SOAP
4 1 (1.04%) SPFx
4 1 (1.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.21%) PKI
2 4 (4.17%) e-Health
2 4 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.04%) NHS
5 1 (1.04%) Replication
5 1 (1.04%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.29%) Unix
2 4 (4.17%) Linux
3 3 (3.13%) Windows
4 2 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.04%) AIX
5 1 (1.04%) Android
5 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (54.17%) User Acceptance Testing
2 26 (27.08%) Test Automation
2 26 (27.08%) Test Scripting
3 24 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 21 (21.88%) Agile
4 21 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (19.79%) End-to-End Testing
6 17 (17.71%) Test Management
7 15 (15.63%) Test Planning
8 14 (14.58%) Regression Testing
8 14 (14.58%) System Integration Testing
9 13 (13.54%) Acceptance Criteria
9 13 (13.54%) ERP
10 12 (12.50%) Functional Testing
10 12 (12.50%) Migration
10 12 (12.50%) Performance Testing
10 12 (12.50%) Project Management
11 9 (9.38%) Data Cleansing
11 9 (9.38%) Manual Testing
12 8 (8.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.58%) SQL
2 8 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.21%) Python
4 3 (3.13%) Apex Code
4 3 (3.13%) Java
4 3 (3.13%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.13%) SOQL
5 2 (2.08%) C#
5 2 (2.08%) Scala
5 2 (2.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.04%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.42%) Degree
3 8 (8.33%) CIPD
4 5 (5.21%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.17%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.04%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.79%) QA
2 9 (9.38%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.08%) Control-M
2 2 (2.08%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.04%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) Terraform
3 1 (1.04%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) SAP
2 13 (13.54%) Oracle
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.25%) OpenText
5 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.17%) Alteryx
6 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.08%) VMware
8 1 (1.04%) Ariba
8 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.04%) Avaya
8 1 (1.04%) Ceridian
8 1 (1.04%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.04%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.04%) HP
8 1 (1.04%) IFS
8 1 (1.04%) Progress
8 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.04%) Splunk