Scenario Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Scenario Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 344 343
Rank change year-on-year +110 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 111 134 309
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 0.52% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.58% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 105 206
10th Percentile £369 £363 £313
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £583 £650 £538
90th Percentile £644 £775 £673
UK median daily rate £463 £480 £473
% change year-on-year -3.65% +1.48% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.03
25th Percentile - - £19.19
Median hourly rate - - £22.25
75th Percentile - - £24.19
90th Percentile - - £24.68
UK median hourly rate - - £25.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,483 23,229 40,650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,996 16,418 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Scenario Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scenario Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scenario Testing.

Scenario Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Scenario Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scenario Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scenario Testing.

Scenario Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (6.31%) Confluence
2 2 (1.80%) CMS
2 2 (1.80%) IIS
2 2 (1.80%) JBoss
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) SimCorp Dimension
2 3 (2.70%) SAP EWM
2 3 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.80%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.90%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.90%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.90%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.90%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.90%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.90%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.90%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (0.90%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.90%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 19 (17.12%) AWS
2 13 (11.71%) Azure
3 8 (7.21%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (1.80%) GCP
5 2 (1.80%) GitHub
5 2 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (0.90%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (0.90%) FinancialForce
6 1 (0.90%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.90%) OCI
6 1 (0.90%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.90%) SaaS
6 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) SAP Fieldglass
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.80%) DB2
2 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.90%) Power BI
3 1 (0.90%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (20.72%) JIRA
2 12 (10.81%) Selenium
3 9 (8.11%) Cucumber
3 9 (8.11%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.50%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.50%) JMeter
5 4 (3.60%) Git
5 4 (3.60%) Postman
6 3 (2.70%) JUnit
6 3 (2.70%) LoadRunner
6 3 (2.70%) Maven
6 3 (2.70%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.70%) TestNG
7 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.80%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.80%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.80%) JIRA Agile
7 2 (1.80%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.80%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.90%) TestRail
General
1 41 (36.94%) Finance
2 20 (18.02%) Social Skills
3 19 (17.12%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.31%) Banking
5 7 (6.31%) Marketing
5 7 (6.31%) Retail
6 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.80%) Back Office
8 2 (1.80%) Electronics
8 2 (1.80%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Legal
9 1 (0.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 41 (36.94%) Analyst
2 18 (16.22%) Test Analyst
3 14 (12.61%) Senior
4 13 (11.71%) Test Engineer
5 12 (10.81%) Architect
5 12 (10.81%) Consultant
6 11 (9.91%) Business Analyst
6 11 (9.91%) Tester
7 8 (7.21%) Test Manager
8 7 (6.31%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Functional Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Lead
10 5 (4.50%) Project Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Salesforce Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Salesforce Business Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Manual Tester
11 4 (3.60%) Test Consultant
11 4 (3.60%) UAT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) REST
2 5 (4.50%) Gherkin
2 5 (4.50%) OpenAPI
2 5 (4.50%) Swagger
3 4 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.70%) Web Services
5 2 (1.80%) ADO
5 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.80%) CSS
5 2 (1.80%) HTML
5 2 (1.80%) Spring
6 1 (0.90%) JSON
6 1 (0.90%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.90%) Middleware
6 1 (0.90%) Node.js
6 1 (0.90%) Playwright
6 1 (0.90%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.90%) SOAP
6 1 (0.90%) Visualforce
6 1 (0.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
2 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.80%) NHS
3 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.90%) Robotics
3 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (0.90%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.60%) Linux
2 3 (2.70%) Unix
2 3 (2.70%) Windows
3 2 (1.80%) AIX
3 2 (1.80%) Solaris
4 1 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (37.84%) Test Automation
2 40 (36.04%) Agile
3 32 (28.83%) User Acceptance Testing
4 23 (20.72%) End-to-End Testing
5 22 (19.82%) Test Scripting
5 22 (19.82%) Test Strategy
6 19 (17.12%) User Stories
7 16 (14.41%) DevOps
7 16 (14.41%) Migration
7 16 (14.41%) Software Testing
8 15 (13.51%) Acceptance Criteria
9 14 (12.61%) CI/CD
9 14 (12.61%) Functional Testing
9 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.61%) System Integration Testing
10 12 (10.81%) Non-Functional Testing
10 12 (10.81%) Regression Testing
11 11 (9.91%) Manual Testing
11 11 (9.91%) Performance Testing
12 10 (9.01%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.71%) Python
2 12 (10.81%) JavaScript
3 11 (9.91%) SQL
4 10 (9.01%) Java
5 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.80%) Perl
5 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.80%) Ruby
6 1 (0.90%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.90%) SOQL
6 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.90%) VB
6 1 (0.90%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (17.12%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.21%) Degree
4 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.50%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.90%) CCA
7 1 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.90%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.62%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) PMO
3 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.90%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.80%) HP ALM
1 2 (1.80%) Opsgenie
1 2 (1.80%) Tivoli
2 1 (0.90%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) SAP
2 11 (9.91%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.01%) Salesforce
4 7 (6.31%) Oracle
5 5 (4.50%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.60%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.80%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.80%) Ariba
7 2 (1.80%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.80%) F5
7 2 (1.80%) HP
7 2 (1.80%) IBM
7 2 (1.80%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.80%) Splunk
7 2 (1.80%) VMware
8 1 (0.90%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.90%) NEC
8 1 (0.90%) Workday