Scenario Testing Contracts

Scenario Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 347 375
Rank change year-on-year +18 +28 +25
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 237 229 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.58% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.68% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 124 239
10th Percentile £322 £325 £363
25th Percentile £381 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -6.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £678 £689 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £21.83 - -
25th Percentile £26.77 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.25 - -
90th Percentile £45.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.37 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,778 33,530 47,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.41% 85.52% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,631 21,488 32,626
10th Percentile £300 £310 £322
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £731 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,664 1,872 1,558
10th Percentile £14.15 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.14 £18.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.95 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +85.19%

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 4 August 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Top 17 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 4 August 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
England +10 189 £447 -5.89% 136
UK excluding London +53 124 £500 +11.11% 69
London -8 102 £451 -5.05% 76
Work from Home -7 67 £444 -6.56% 54
North of England +6 31 £425 -0.87% 15
Scotland +22 30 £525 +10.53% 3
South East +38 26 £438 -7.89% 27
Midlands +1 22 £425 +14.48% 8
North West +10 20 £425 -5.35% 12
West Midlands +8 15 £500 +37.93% 4
Yorkshire +1 10 £575 +64.29% 2
East Midlands -9 7 £340 -10.53% 4
East of England +1 6 - - 9
Wales - 5 £413 - 1
South West +10 3 £400 -33.61% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 £590 - 1
North East -4 1 £390 -8.24% 1

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 15 (6.33%) Confluence
2 5 (2.11%) Anypoint
3 4 (1.69%) CICS
4 2 (0.84%) IIS
4 2 (0.84%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 21 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (3.38%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.69%) Simulink
5 4 (1.69%) Windchill
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (4.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.80%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (3.38%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (3.38%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (2.95%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (2.53%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 5 (2.11%) SAP PLM
7 3 (1.27%) SAP CO
7 3 (1.27%) SAP FI
7 3 (1.27%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.42%) Finacle
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payroll
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.42%) SAP PS
9 1 (0.42%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.97%) Azure
2 19 (8.02%) AWS
2 19 (8.02%) SaaS
3 17 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (4.64%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (1.69%) Entra ID
5 4 (1.69%) OCI
6 3 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (1.27%) GCP
6 3 (1.27%) Serverless
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.84%) GitHub
8 1 (0.42%) Akamai
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.42%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.42%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.27%) HTTP
2 2 (0.84%) Broadband
3 1 (0.42%) ATM
3 1 (0.42%) Converged Networks
3 1 (0.42%) DSL
3 1 (0.42%) Firewall
3 1 (0.42%) Internet
3 1 (0.42%) LAN
3 1 (0.42%) Multicast
3 1 (0.42%) RTP
3 1 (0.42%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.42%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.64%) Power BI
3 8 (3.38%) Data Mining
3 8 (3.38%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.95%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.53%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.69%) DB2
7 3 (1.27%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.27%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.84%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.84%) MySQL
8 2 (0.84%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.42%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 56 (23.63%) JIRA
2 24 (10.13%) Selenium
3 15 (6.33%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.33%) REST Assured
4 13 (5.49%) Cucumber
5 12 (5.06%) Postman
6 6 (2.53%) Git
7 5 (2.11%) JMeter
7 5 (2.11%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (1.69%) Rational Rhapsody
9 3 (1.27%) Ant
9 3 (1.27%) Gatling
9 3 (1.27%) Maven
9 3 (1.27%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.84%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.84%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.84%) SOAtest
10 2 (0.84%) TestPartner
General
1 87 (36.71%) Social Skills
2 78 (32.91%) Finance
3 57 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (24.05%) Banking
4 33 (13.92%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.64%) Investment Banking
6 10 (4.22%) General Ledger
7 8 (3.38%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.53%) Legal
8 6 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.69%) Law
9 4 (1.69%) Local Government
9 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.69%) Retail
10 3 (1.27%) Front Office
10 3 (1.27%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.84%) Billing
11 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.84%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 88 (37.13%) Analyst
2 32 (13.50%) Consultant
2 32 (13.50%) Test Analyst
3 27 (11.39%) Senior
4 26 (10.97%) Tester
5 22 (9.28%) Business Analyst
6 13 (5.49%) Fraud Analyst
7 12 (5.06%) Test Engineer
8 11 (4.64%) Lead
9 10 (4.22%) Risk Consultant
9 10 (4.22%) Senior Consultant
10 9 (3.80%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.38%) Automation Tester
11 8 (3.38%) Integration Analyst
11 8 (3.38%) OAT Analyst
11 8 (3.38%) Senior Test Analyst
12 7 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.95%) Test Leader
13 6 (2.53%) IT Manager
13 6 (2.53%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.91%) JSON
1 14 (5.91%) REST
2 8 (3.38%) Playwright
2 8 (3.38%) SOAP
2 8 (3.38%) XML
3 6 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (2.53%) WebdriverIO
4 4 (1.69%) Jest
4 4 (1.69%) jQuery
4 4 (1.69%) Middleware
4 4 (1.69%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.69%) Web Services
5 3 (1.27%) DCOM
5 3 (1.27%) J2EE
5 3 (1.27%) Kafka
5 3 (1.27%) Node.js
5 3 (1.27%) RESTful
5 3 (1.27%) Spring Boot
6 2 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.84%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.81%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.33%) SCADA
3 12 (5.06%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.06%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.64%) Market Risk
5 8 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.53%) Replication
7 6 (2.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.11%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.69%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.69%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.69%) VSAM
10 3 (1.27%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.27%) Housing Association
10 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.84%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.22%) Windows
2 5 (2.11%) Unix
3 3 (1.27%) Linux
4 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (35.86%) Test Automation
2 68 (28.69%) User Acceptance Testing
3 67 (28.27%) Agile
4 59 (24.89%) Test Strategy
5 56 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 53 (22.36%) Migration
8 43 (18.14%) Test Scripting
9 37 (15.61%) DevOps
10 35 (14.77%) CI/CD
11 34 (14.35%) SDLC
12 33 (13.92%) Scrum
13 31 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (12.66%) Validation
15 27 (11.39%) Defect Management
15 27 (11.39%) Regulatory Compliance
16 25 (10.55%) Regression Testing
16 25 (10.55%) System Integration Testing
17 24 (10.13%) Due Diligence
17 24 (10.13%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 42 (17.72%) Java
2 40 (16.88%) SQL
3 17 (7.17%) Python
4 9 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.38%) C#
6 7 (2.95%) VB
7 5 (2.11%) JCL
8 4 (1.69%) COBOL
8 4 (1.69%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.27%) REXX
9 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.84%) Korn
10 2 (0.84%) R
11 1 (0.42%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.42%) C++
11 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.42%) Ruby
11 1 (0.42%) Scala
11 1 (0.42%) SOQL
11 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (9.28%) Degree
2 18 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.91%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.95%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.53%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.53%) ISEB
7 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.42%) GPEN
9 1 (0.42%) GWAPT
9 1 (0.42%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.42%) OSCE
9 1 (0.42%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (23.63%) QA
2 10 (4.22%) Basel II
3 8 (3.38%) SEPA
4 5 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.11%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.69%) IFRS
5 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.27%) Basel III
7 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.42%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.42%) GDPR
7 1 (0.42%) GxP
7 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.69%) Firmware
2 3 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.84%) Docker
4 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.69%) Control-M
2 3 (1.27%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.42%) Ansible
3 1 (0.42%) CSIRT
3 1 (0.42%) Kibana
3 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (12.24%) Oracle
2 24 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.28%) SAP
4 10 (4.22%) MuleSoft
5 6 (2.53%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.11%) HP
7 3 (1.27%) Calypso
7 3 (1.27%) Duck Creek
7 3 (1.27%) Murex
7 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.84%) Aareon
8 2 (0.84%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.84%) Civica
8 2 (0.84%) Databricks
8 2 (0.84%) DocuSign
8 2 (0.84%) IFS
8 2 (0.84%) Informatica
8 2 (0.84%) Northgate
8 2 (0.84%) Parasoft
8 2 (0.84%) Workday