Scenario Testing Job Trends in the North of England

Scenario Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 253 270
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 +82
Permanent jobs citing Scenario Testing 8 21 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.075% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.25% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £39,600 £29,700 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £41,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -26.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile £95,938 £53,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £168,500 £58,222 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Scenario Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,531 8,241 7,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 80.17% 90.66% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 4,542 3,667 5,961
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £38,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -0.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,040 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Scenario Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Scenario Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Scenario Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Scenario Testing in the North of England

Scenario Testing
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scenario Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North East +8 4 £50,000 +5.26% 3
North West +26 2 £53,750 +22.16% 3
Yorkshire -18 2 £165,000 +288.24% 16
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (37.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Gatling
1 1 (12.50%) JMeter
1 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Advertising
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Electronics
4 1 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (12.50%) Legal
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Business Systems Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Chaos Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Tech Ops
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Genesys
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Siebel