Scenario Testing Contracts

Scenario Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 404 387
Rank change year-on-year +87 -17 +11
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 268 303 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.54% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.60% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 204 370
10th Percentile £325 £361 £315
25th Percentile £363 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £641 £538
90th Percentile £680 £775 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £432
% change year-on-year -5.56% +4.17% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £16.75
25th Percentile - - £19.19
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £26.13
90th Percentile - - £28.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - -26.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,577 50,687 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.85% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,572 35,094 55,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,678 1,891
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 May 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
England +72 213 £462 -7.60% 77
London +73 118 £475 -24.00% 37
Work from Home +96 106 £481 -3.75% 25
UK excluding London +22 98 £425 -5.56% 52
South East +14 29 £475 +13.77% 18
Midlands +34 16 £363 -3.33% 7
South West +18 16 £575 +24.32% 7
East Midlands +26 13 £363 -3.33% 4
North of England +14 13 £413 -17.50% 5
East of England +19 12 £375 -46.43% 9
Scotland +14 12 £475 +10.98% 4
North West +24 6 £400 -20.00% 5
Yorkshire +2 6 - -
West Midlands +15 3 £344 -40.22% 3
North East +11 1 £450 -28.00%

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (3.73%) Confluence
2 6 (2.24%) CMS
3 5 (1.87%) IIS
4 4 (1.49%) JBoss
5 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.37%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.75%) Mingle
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.36%) SAP ERP
2 6 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.87%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (1.87%) SimCorp Dimension
4 4 (1.49%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.49%) SAP PS
5 3 (1.12%) Endur
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle HRMS
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.12%) SAP HR
5 3 (1.12%) SAP MRS
5 3 (1.12%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.75%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.57%) Azure
2 27 (10.07%) AWS
3 16 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.22%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.36%) SuccessFactors
6 6 (2.24%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.87%) BrowserStack
7 5 (1.87%) OCI
7 5 (1.87%) SAP Fieldglass
8 4 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.12%) GCP
9 3 (1.12%) GitHub
9 3 (1.12%) Serverless
10 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.37%) FinancialForce
11 1 (0.37%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.37%) Internet
2 1 (0.37%) LAN
2 1 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.24%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.87%) Oracle Database
2 5 (1.87%) Power BI
3 4 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (1.49%) DB2
3 4 (1.49%) MS Access
3 4 (1.49%) Tableau
4 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.75%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.37%) Big Data
5 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.37%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (16.79%) JIRA
2 24 (8.96%) Selenium
3 23 (8.58%) Cucumber
4 12 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.48%) Postman
5 10 (3.73%) JMeter
6 8 (2.99%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.61%) Gatling
7 7 (2.61%) LoadRunner
8 6 (2.24%) JUnit
8 6 (2.24%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.87%) Git
10 4 (1.49%) Vagrant
10 4 (1.49%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.12%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.12%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.12%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.75%) Serenity BDD
General
1 89 (33.21%) Finance
2 64 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.96%) Banking
5 23 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.85%) Retail
7 10 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.99%) Games
9 8 (2.99%) Legal
10 7 (2.61%) Billing
11 6 (2.24%) Marketing
12 5 (1.87%) Back Office
12 5 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.12%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.12%) Local Government
13 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.12%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (30.97%) Analyst
2 44 (16.42%) Tester
3 38 (14.18%) Test Analyst
4 27 (10.07%) Senior
5 26 (9.70%) Lead
6 23 (8.58%) Consultant
7 22 (8.21%) Test Engineer
8 21 (7.84%) Business Analyst
9 19 (7.09%) Test Leader
9 19 (7.09%) Test Manager
10 17 (6.34%) Architect
11 14 (5.22%) Manual Tester
12 12 (4.48%) Data Analyst
12 12 (4.48%) QA Engineer
13 10 (3.73%) Automation Tester
14 9 (3.36%) QA Tester
14 9 (3.36%) Technical Analyst
15 8 (2.99%) Project Analyst
15 8 (2.99%) SAP Consultant
15 8 (2.99%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.48%) REST
2 10 (3.73%) ADO
3 8 (2.99%) Gherkin
4 6 (2.24%) Swagger
5 5 (1.87%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.87%) HTML
5 5 (1.87%) JSON
5 5 (1.87%) OpenAPI
5 5 (1.87%) Spring
5 5 (1.87%) XML
6 4 (1.49%) CSS
6 4 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.49%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (1.49%) Web Services
7 3 (1.12%) Node.js
8 2 (0.75%) Apache Camel
8 2 (0.75%) Kafka
8 2 (0.75%) SailPoint
8 2 (0.75%) SOAP
8 2 (0.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.73%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.36%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.61%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.87%) PKI
4 5 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.49%) e-Health
5 4 (1.49%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.49%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.75%) Derivative
7 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.37%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.37%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.37%) NHS
8 1 (0.37%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.37%) Robotics
8 1 (0.37%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.73%) Unix
1 10 (3.73%) Windows
2 8 (2.99%) Linux
3 5 (1.87%) AIX
3 5 (1.87%) VMS
4 4 (1.49%) Solaris
5 3 (1.12%) Android
5 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (33.21%) Test Automation
2 87 (32.46%) User Acceptance Testing
3 79 (29.48%) Agile
4 57 (21.27%) Test Scripting
5 47 (17.54%) Test Strategy
6 46 (17.16%) End-to-End Testing
7 40 (14.93%) Migration
8 37 (13.81%) Acceptance Criteria
9 36 (13.43%) DevOps
9 36 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (13.43%) Test Management
10 34 (12.69%) Regression Testing
11 29 (10.82%) Functional Testing
11 29 (10.82%) Manual Testing
11 29 (10.82%) User Stories
12 28 (10.45%) Scrum
12 28 (10.45%) System Integration Testing
12 28 (10.45%) Test Planning
13 26 (9.70%) Software Testing
14 25 (9.33%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.06%) SQL
2 24 (8.96%) Java
3 20 (7.46%) Python
4 17 (6.34%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.49%) C#
5 4 (1.49%) Perl
5 4 (1.49%) Ruby
6 3 (1.12%) ABAP
6 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.12%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.12%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.37%) Bash
8 1 (0.37%) SOQL
8 1 (0.37%) VB
8 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (11.57%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.58%) Degree
3 22 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.99%) ISTQB
4 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.49%) CIPD
7 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.12%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CCA
8 1 (0.37%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (24.25%) QA
2 11 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.49%) PMO
5 3 (1.12%) WCAG
6 2 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS
7 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.87%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.87%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.49%) Opsgenie
2 4 (1.49%) Tivoli
3 3 (1.12%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.75%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.37%) Ansible
5 1 (0.37%) Terraform
5 1 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 37 (13.81%) SAP
2 35 (13.06%) Oracle
3 24 (8.96%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.73%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.61%) Splunk
7 6 (2.24%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.24%) HP
8 5 (1.87%) SimCorp
9 4 (1.49%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.49%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.49%) F5
9 4 (1.49%) IBM
9 4 (1.49%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.49%) VMware
10 3 (1.12%) Adobe
10 3 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.12%) OpenText
10 3 (1.12%) Qualtrics
11 2 (0.75%) Ariba