Scenario Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Scenario Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 237 342
Rank change year-on-year -15 +105 -3
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 50 112 133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.73% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.83% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 66 105
10th Percentile £312 £369 £363
25th Percentile £385 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £545 £583 £650
90th Percentile £838 £644 £775
UK median daily rate £455 £463 £478
% change year-on-year -1.62% -3.14% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.54 - -
Median hourly rate £19.37 - -
75th Percentile £20.19 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £27.18 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Scenario Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scenario Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 4 (8.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.00%) CMS
2 1 (2.00%) Drupal
2 1 (2.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.00%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) AWS
2 5 (10.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) SaaS
3 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (6.00%) GCP
5 2 (4.00%) Datadog
5 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.00%) Twilio
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) DHCP
1 3 (6.00%) DNS
1 3 (6.00%) DOCSIS
1 3 (6.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (4.00%) Network Security
2 2 (4.00%) VLAN
2 2 (4.00%) Wireless
3 1 (2.00%) Converged Networks
3 1 (2.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Data Mining
1 4 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (4.00%) InfluxDB
2 2 (4.00%) Looker
3 1 (2.00%) Ataccama
3 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) JIRA
2 5 (10.00%) REST Assured
3 4 (8.00%) Cypress.io
3 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.00%) Postman
4 2 (4.00%) Selenium
5 1 (2.00%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.00%) Git
5 1 (2.00%) GitLab
5 1 (2.00%) Introscope
5 1 (2.00%) JUnit
5 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.00%) Metasploit
5 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.00%) TestComplete
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Banking
3 7 (14.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.00%) Back Office
8 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Local Government
8 1 (2.00%) Marketing
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Analyst
2 9 (18.00%) Senior
3 8 (16.00%) Consultant
4 7 (14.00%) Tester
5 5 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 5 (10.00%) Risk Consultant
6 4 (8.00%) Java Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Lead
6 4 (8.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Test Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Coordinator
8 2 (4.00%) Functional Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) SAP Test Coordinator
8 2 (4.00%) Test Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) Test Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) Playwright
2 4 (8.00%) REST
3 3 (6.00%) Jest
3 3 (6.00%) Node.js
4 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.00%) Middleware
4 2 (4.00%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (4.00%) Web Services
5 1 (2.00%) .NET
5 1 (2.00%) HTML
5 1 (2.00%) J2EE
5 1 (2.00%) Kafka
5 1 (2.00%) pytest
5 1 (2.00%) RESTful
5 1 (2.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.00%) Market Risk
3 3 (6.00%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (6.00%) SCADA
4 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (4.00%) IoT
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) AIX
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) Agile
1 22 (44.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (32.00%) Test Strategy
3 13 (26.00%) Scrum
4 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (24.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 9 (18.00%) SDLC
7 7 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (14.00%) User Stories
8 6 (12.00%) Exploratory Testing
8 6 (12.00%) Migration
8 6 (12.00%) Test Scripting
9 5 (10.00%) Change Management
9 5 (10.00%) Data Modelling
9 5 (10.00%) Manual Testing
9 5 (10.00%) Security Testing
9 5 (10.00%) Service Delivery
9 5 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) Java
2 8 (16.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) SQL
4 4 (8.00%) C
4 4 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.00%) C++
6 2 (4.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) GPEN
5 1 (2.00%) GWAPT
5 1 (2.00%) OSCE
5 1 (2.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (38.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) Basel II
3 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) GRC
3 1 (2.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) HP ALM
2 2 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (2.00%) CA Wily
3 1 (2.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) HP
2 4 (8.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.00%) SAP
3 3 (6.00%) Google
3 3 (6.00%) Splunk
4 2 (4.00%) Avaya
4 2 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.00%) Ariba
5 1 (2.00%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.00%) Optimizely
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.00%) VMware