Scenario Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Scenario Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 573 569
Rank change year-on-year -65 -4 +28
Permanent jobs citing Scenario Testing 263 484 815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.46% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.48% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 167 332 448
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £73,000 £78,713 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -3.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scenario Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scenario Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing.

Salary trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scenario Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
England -49 242 £52,500 - 72
UK excluding London -36 197 £50,000 +5.26% 41
Work from Home +49 112 £54,043 +2.94% 26
South East +60 89 £46,500 -15.45% 11
London -14 64 £61,500 +0.41% 28
North of England -1 29 £47,750 +12.35% 8
Midlands -31 26 £42,500 -8.60% 10
West Midlands +5 23 £35,000 -41.67% 4
South West -36 22 £54,043 +11.43% 2
East of England +30 16 £57,500 +17.95% 9
Yorkshire +61 10 £60,000 +41.18% 4
North West -12 10 £48,000 +9.71% 3
North East +8 9 £35,000 - 1
Scotland -58 9 £72,500 +38.10% 2
Wales +8 4 - - 1
East Midlands -41 3 £67,500 +63.64% 6
Northern Ireland +21 2 £72,500 +61.11% 1

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (6.84%) Apache
2 8 (3.04%) Confluence
3 3 (1.14%) SAS
4 2 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 20 (7.60%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.28%) InVision
3 6 (2.28%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.28%) Sketch
4 3 (1.14%) SPSS
5 1 (0.38%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (4.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.66%) SAP GTS
3 6 (2.28%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.76%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.38%) Primavera
5 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.38%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.38%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.38%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.38%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 47 (17.87%) Azure
2 18 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.18%) AWS
5 10 (3.80%) OCI
6 8 (3.04%) SaaS
7 7 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.14%) Dropbox
8 3 (1.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.76%) GCP
9 2 (0.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.70%) HTTP
2 6 (2.28%) Intranet
3 3 (1.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.28%) Relational Database
1 6 (2.28%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.90%) DynamoDB
3 3 (1.14%) Big Data
3 3 (1.14%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (14.83%) Selenium
2 36 (13.69%) JIRA
3 24 (9.13%) Cucumber
4 20 (7.60%) Postman
5 19 (7.22%) WebDriver
6 18 (6.84%) REST Assured
7 17 (6.46%) JUnit
8 16 (6.08%) TestNG
9 13 (4.94%) MSTest
10 10 (3.80%) Git
11 8 (3.04%) Cypress.io
11 8 (3.04%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (2.66%) SoapUI
13 6 (2.28%) Bitbucket
13 6 (2.28%) Visual Studio
14 5 (1.90%) SpecFlow
15 3 (1.14%) Jenkins
15 3 (1.14%) JMeter
16 2 (0.76%) Gatling
16 2 (0.76%) Hudson
General
1 116 (44.11%) Finance
2 108 (41.06%) Social Skills
3 73 (27.76%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.13%) Manufacturing
5 23 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 21 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (7.98%) Police
7 19 (7.22%) Law
8 18 (6.84%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (6.84%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (5.32%) Electronics
9 14 (5.32%) Retail
10 10 (3.80%) Military
11 9 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (3.04%) Marketing
12 8 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (2.66%) Banking
14 6 (2.28%) Legal
15 5 (1.90%) Local Government
16 4 (1.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (39.54%) Analyst
2 52 (19.77%) Senior
3 40 (15.21%) Test Analyst
4 34 (12.93%) Business Analyst
5 28 (10.65%) Tester
6 26 (9.89%) Senior Analyst
7 22 (8.37%) Developer
8 18 (6.84%) Automation Tester
9 17 (6.46%) Test Engineer
10 13 (4.94%) ERP Developer
10 13 (4.94%) Graduate
10 13 (4.94%) Graduate Developer
10 13 (4.94%) Operations Analyst
10 13 (4.94%) Systems Analyst
11 11 (4.18%) Oracle Analyst
11 11 (4.18%) Oracle Business Analyst
12 10 (3.80%) Business Systems Analyst
12 10 (3.80%) QA Engineer
13 9 (3.42%) Operations Business Analyst
13 9 (3.42%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.03%) REST
2 17 (6.46%) React
3 16 (6.08%) Apache Commons
3 16 (6.08%) Guava
3 16 (6.08%) Java Concurrency
3 16 (6.08%) WireMock
4 14 (5.32%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (3.42%) .NET
6 7 (2.66%) Gherkin
6 7 (2.66%) JSON
7 6 (2.28%) ASP.NET
7 6 (2.28%) Web Services
8 5 (1.90%) SOAP
8 5 (1.90%) XML
9 4 (1.52%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.52%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 4 (1.52%) Node.js
9 4 (1.52%) PySpark
10 3 (1.14%) EDI
10 3 (1.14%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.51%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.46%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (6.08%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.80%) Virtual Team
5 9 (3.42%) Biopharmaceutical
6 8 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.04%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.66%) PMI
8 6 (2.28%) IoT
8 6 (2.28%) NHS
9 5 (1.90%) FMCG
9 5 (1.90%) Replication
10 3 (1.14%) Blog
10 3 (1.14%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.14%) Cybercrime
10 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.14%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.14%) Robotics
11 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.18%) Linux
2 8 (3.04%) Android
2 8 (3.04%) Apple iOS
2 8 (3.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (41.44%) Agile
2 71 (27.00%) Test Automation
3 66 (25.10%) Software Testing
4 49 (18.63%) User Acceptance Testing
5 47 (17.87%) ERP
5 47 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (17.11%) DevOps
7 41 (15.59%) Test Scripting
7 41 (15.59%) User Stories
8 38 (14.45%) Business Analysis
9 34 (12.93%) Regression Testing
10 32 (12.17%) API Testing
10 32 (12.17%) End-to-End Testing
10 32 (12.17%) Functional Testing
11 31 (11.79%) CRM
12 30 (11.41%) Project Management
12 30 (11.41%) Scrum
13 27 (10.27%) CI/CD
14 25 (9.51%) Requirements Gathering
15 23 (8.75%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 53 (20.15%) SQL
2 32 (12.17%) C#
3 29 (11.03%) Java
4 20 (7.60%) Python
5 19 (7.22%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.18%) C
7 5 (1.90%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.52%) Ada
8 4 (1.52%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.14%) R
9 3 (1.14%) Scala
10 2 (0.76%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (35.74%) Degree
2 34 (12.93%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.04%) HND
6 7 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.66%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.28%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.14%) CISA
8 3 (1.14%) CISM
8 3 (1.14%) CISSP
8 3 (1.14%) CRISC
8 3 (1.14%) SANS
9 2 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.38%) CBAP
10 1 (0.38%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (19.77%) QA
2 9 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.04%) GDPR
4 7 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (2.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.90%) GxP
7 3 (1.14%) NIST
8 2 (0.76%) SLA
9 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (7.60%) Docker
2 14 (5.32%) Firmware
3 10 (3.80%) Embedded Firmware
4 8 (3.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.38%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.38%) HP SiteScope
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (0.38%) Perfmon
3 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.37%) Oracle
3 19 (7.22%) SAP
4 12 (4.56%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.04%) Google
6 7 (2.66%) Computacenter
7 6 (2.28%) Adobe
7 6 (2.28%) Hotjar
8 3 (1.14%) Conga
8 3 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.76%) Databricks
9 2 (0.76%) Sage
10 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.38%) Citrix
10 1 (0.38%) Commvault
10 1 (0.38%) Dell
10 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.38%) NEC