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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 418 403
Rank change year-on-year +92 -15 -7
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 270 301 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.58% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 209 354
10th Percentile £325 £354 £313
25th Percentile £363 £406 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £570 £638 £538
90th Percentile £639 £775 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £434
% change year-on-year -2.86% +0.92% +3.52%
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 - - -25.25%

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 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 10 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 10 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 +77 210 £450 -10.00% 70
London +85 121 £475 -20.83% 26
Work from Home +96 108 £488 -4.88% 25
UK excluding London +30 98 £425 -2.86% 44
South East +18 29 £475 +14.46% 10
Midlands +32 18 £363 -3.33% 12
Scotland +22 17 £475 +11.76% 3
East Midlands +25 13 £363 -3.33% 8
North of England +16 13 £413 -17.50% 5
South West +17 12 £500 +4.17% 6
East of England +21 9 £375 -46.43% 8
North West +20 6 £400 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire +5 6 - - 3
West Midlands +21 5 £344 -47.12% 4
North East +15 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 13 (4.81%) Confluence
2 6 (2.22%) CMS
3 5 (1.85%) IIS
3 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.48%) JBoss
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.74%) 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 6 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.85%) SAP ERP
2 5 (1.85%) SimCorp Dimension
3 4 (1.48%) SAP EWM
3 4 (1.48%) SAP PS
4 3 (1.11%) Endur
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle HRMS
4 3 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.11%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.11%) SAP MRS
4 3 (1.11%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.74%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.22%) Azure
2 30 (11.11%) AWS
3 15 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.22%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (1.85%) BrowserStack
6 5 (1.85%) OCI
6 5 (1.85%) SAP Fieldglass
6 5 (1.85%) Serverless
7 4 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (1.11%) GCP
8 3 (1.11%) GitHub
9 1 (0.37%) Commercetools
9 1 (0.37%) FinancialForce
9 1 (0.37%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.22%) Firewall
2 2 (0.74%) 5G
3 1 (0.37%) Internet
3 1 (0.37%) LAN
3 1 (0.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.85%) Power BI
3 4 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (1.48%) DB2
3 4 (1.48%) MS Access
3 4 (1.48%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.48%) Tableau
4 2 (0.74%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.74%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.74%) 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%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.37%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.37%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.37%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (18.52%) JIRA
2 31 (11.48%) Cucumber
3 26 (9.63%) Selenium
4 17 (6.30%) Jenkins
5 15 (5.56%) Postman
6 10 (3.70%) Git
6 10 (3.70%) JMeter
6 10 (3.70%) JUnit
7 8 (2.96%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.96%) Gatling
8 7 (2.59%) LoadRunner
9 6 (2.22%) SoapUI
10 4 (1.48%) TestNG
10 4 (1.48%) Vagrant
10 4 (1.48%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.11%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.11%) Maven
11 3 (1.11%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (32.59%) Finance
2 67 (24.81%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (9.63%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.52%) Banking
5 14 (5.19%) Retail
6 11 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.96%) Games
7 8 (2.96%) Legal
7 8 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.59%) Marketing
9 6 (2.22%) Billing
10 5 (1.85%) Back Office
10 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.11%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.11%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.74%) Local Government
13 1 (0.37%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 81 (30.00%) Analyst
2 43 (15.93%) Tester
3 38 (14.07%) Test Analyst
4 29 (10.74%) Senior
5 25 (9.26%) Test Engineer
6 24 (8.89%) Lead
7 21 (7.78%) Consultant
8 20 (7.41%) Business Analyst
9 19 (7.04%) Test Manager
10 18 (6.67%) Architect
10 18 (6.67%) Test Leader
11 14 (5.19%) Manual Tester
11 14 (5.19%) QA Engineer
12 11 (4.07%) Data Analyst
13 10 (3.70%) Automation Tester
13 10 (3.70%) Developer
13 10 (3.70%) QA Tester
14 9 (3.33%) UAT Analyst
15 8 (2.96%) Project Analyst
15 8 (2.96%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.30%) REST
2 10 (3.70%) ADO
2 10 (3.70%) Gherkin
2 10 (3.70%) Spring
3 7 (2.59%) J2EE
3 7 (2.59%) Kafka
4 6 (2.22%) Apache Camel
4 6 (2.22%) Swagger
5 5 (1.85%) AngularJS
5 5 (1.85%) HTML
5 5 (1.85%) JSON
5 5 (1.85%) Node.js
5 5 (1.85%) OpenAPI
5 5 (1.85%) Spring Boot
5 5 (1.85%) XML
6 4 (1.48%) CSS
6 4 (1.48%) Jest
6 4 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.48%) SAP Fiori
6 4 (1.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.96%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.85%) PKI
5 5 (1.85%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.48%) e-Health
7 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.74%) Derivative
8 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.37%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.37%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Robotics
9 1 (0.37%) Social Media
9 1 (0.37%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.37%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.70%) Unix
1 10 (3.70%) Windows
2 8 (2.96%) Linux
3 5 (1.85%) AIX
3 5 (1.85%) VMS
4 4 (1.48%) Solaris
5 3 (1.11%) Android
5 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.44%) Test Automation
2 89 (32.96%) Agile
3 83 (30.74%) User Acceptance Testing
4 56 (20.74%) Test Scripting
5 49 (18.15%) Test Strategy
6 48 (17.78%) End-to-End Testing
7 43 (15.93%) Migration
8 37 (13.70%) Test Management
9 36 (13.33%) DevOps
10 35 (12.96%) Acceptance Criteria
11 34 (12.59%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (11.85%) Regression Testing
13 31 (11.48%) Functional Testing
14 28 (10.37%) Manual Testing
14 28 (10.37%) System Integration Testing
14 28 (10.37%) Test Planning
14 28 (10.37%) User Stories
15 27 (10.00%) CI/CD
15 27 (10.00%) Scrum
15 27 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.07%) SQL
2 31 (11.48%) Java
3 21 (7.78%) Python
4 17 (6.30%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.22%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.85%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.48%) C#
7 4 (1.48%) Perl
7 4 (1.48%) Ruby
8 3 (1.11%) ABAP
8 3 (1.11%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.11%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.37%) Bash
10 1 (0.37%) Scala
10 1 (0.37%) SOQL
10 1 (0.37%) VB
10 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 23 (8.52%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.78%) Degree
4 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.59%) ISTQB
6 5 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.11%) SAP Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CCA
9 1 (0.37%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (25.93%) QA
2 11 (4.07%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.48%) PMO
5 3 (1.11%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.11%) WCAG
6 2 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS
7 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (2.96%) Docker
2 6 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.85%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.48%) Opsgenie
2 4 (1.48%) Tivoli
3 3 (1.11%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.37%) Terraform
4 1 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 38 (14.07%) Oracle
2 33 (12.22%) SAP
3 21 (7.78%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.44%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.96%) Splunk
6 7 (2.59%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.22%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.22%) HP
8 5 (1.85%) SimCorp
9 4 (1.48%) Adobe
9 4 (1.48%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.48%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.48%) F5
9 4 (1.48%) IBM
9 4 (1.48%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.48%) Qualtrics
9 4 (1.48%) VMware
10 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.74%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud