Scenario Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

Scenario Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 106 137
Rank change year-on-year +22 +31 0
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 13 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.97% 0.26% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.31% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £421 £317 -
25th Percentile £453 £323 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £344 £650
Median % change year-on-year +44.29% -47.12% +50.46%
75th Percentile £500 £361 £675
90th Percentile £575 £366 -
England median daily rate £475 £448 £500
% change year-on-year +6.15% -10.50% +5.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the West Midlands

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the West Midlands

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the West Midlands

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the West Midlands

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire +11 10 £496 - 6
Birmingham +16 1 £700 +93.10% 5
Shropshire - 1 £425 - 1
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Converged Networks
Development Applications
1 10 (76.92%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) JBehave
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
2 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (38.46%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) OAT Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Applications Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) SCADA
2 5 (38.46%) Data Centre
2 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Test Strategy
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Defect Management
3 5 (38.46%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 5 (38.46%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Test Assurance
3 5 (38.46%) Test Management
3 5 (38.46%) User Stories
4 4 (30.77%) Change Management
4 4 (30.77%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Backlog Management
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Test Planning
5 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Java
1 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) HP
1 5 (38.46%) MuleSoft
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle