Scenario Testing Job Trends in the South East

Scenario Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 269 229
Rank change year-on-year +35 -40 +121
Permanent jobs citing Scenario Testing 44 27 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.43% 0.30% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.34% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 35
10th Percentile £40,300 £51,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £80,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £88,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -47.44% +67.62% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £92,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £79,875 £93,800 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,309 8,009 7,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.54% 87.86% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,909 3,879 5,078
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,950 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.42% -4.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
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 South East

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in the South East

Scenario Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scenario Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Scenario Testing in the South East

Scenario Testing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scenario Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Hampshire +56 20 - - 1
Thames Valley +12 20 £72,500 -17.61% 3
Berkshire +9 16 £46,250 - 2
Buckinghamshire -3 4 £77,500 -11.93% 1
Isle of Wight - 3 £41,500 - 1
Kent - 1 - - 1
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 20 (45.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 9 (20.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (11.36%) Azure
3 3 (6.82%) GitHub
4 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) 3GPP
1 1 (2.27%) 4G
1 1 (2.27%) 5G
1 1 (2.27%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (2.27%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
1 1 (2.27%) ICMP
1 1 (2.27%) IPv4
1 1 (2.27%) IPv6
1 1 (2.27%) SCTP
1 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) JIRA
2 9 (20.45%) eCATT
3 3 (6.82%) Selenium
3 3 (6.82%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.27%) Subversion
General
1 32 (72.73%) Finance
2 11 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 9 (20.45%) Manufacturing
3 9 (20.45%) Marketing
3 9 (20.45%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Systems Engineer
2 11 (25.00%) Analyst
3 10 (22.73%) Test Analyst
4 9 (20.45%) Automation Test Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Automation Tester
5 3 (6.82%) Resilience Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Software Tester
5 3 (6.82%) Tester
6 2 (4.55%) Lead
6 2 (4.55%) Senior
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Test Leader
6 2 (4.55%) Test Manager
6 2 (4.55%) Test Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) UAT Lead
6 2 (4.55%) UAT Test Lead
7 1 (2.27%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Technical Support
7 1 (2.27%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) .NET
1 3 (6.82%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 20 (45.45%) e-Learning
2 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) PKI
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
1 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
1 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) DoDAF
1 20 (45.45%) Innovative Thinking
1 20 (45.45%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 20 (45.45%) SysML
1 20 (45.45%) Systems Engineering
1 20 (45.45%) Trade-off Analysis
1 20 (45.45%) UML
2 16 (36.36%) Test Automation
3 15 (34.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (27.27%) ERP
4 12 (27.27%) Test Management
5 11 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 10 (22.73%) Manual Testing
6 10 (22.73%) Regression Testing
7 9 (20.45%) Programme Management
7 9 (20.45%) Risk Management
7 9 (20.45%) Source to Pay
7 9 (20.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) SQL
2 3 (6.82%) C#
2 3 (6.82%) Java
2 3 (6.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 23 (52.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) Degree
3 3 (6.82%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Terminal Server
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.27%) SCCM
2 1 (2.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (45.45%) Sparx
2 9 (20.45%) HP
2 9 (20.45%) SAP
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.55%) Workday
4 1 (2.27%) BT
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco
4 1 (2.27%) Juniper
4 1 (2.27%) McAfee
4 1 (2.27%) VMware