Scenario Testing Job Trends

Scenario Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Scenario Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 592 548
Rank change year-on-year +86 -44 -27
Permanent jobs citing Scenario Testing 140 121 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.22% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.25% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 55 53 129
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,100 £92,000 £78,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Scenario Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Scenario Testing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scenario Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scenario Testing

Scenario Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Top 15 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 4 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
England +114 136 £55,000 -8.33% 50
UK excluding London +68 81 £47,500 -9.52% 39
London +69 54 £88,500 +22.07% 21
Work from Home +91 49 £55,000 -35.29% 29
South East +40 44 £46,250 -47.44% 13
Midlands +33 17 £40,000 -48.39% 4
East Midlands - 11 £40,000 -
South West +9 9 £45,000 +42.86% 1
North of England +9 8 £50,000 +13.64% 11
West Midlands +32 6 £40,000 -48.39% 4
North East +11 4 £50,000 +5.26% 2
North West +21 2 £53,750 +22.16% 1
East of England +17 2 £70,000 +33.33% 6
Yorkshire -13 2 £165,000 +288.24% 8
Scotland -7 1 £75,000 - 6

Scenario Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (14.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 11 (7.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.71%) Postilion
4 1 (0.71%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (8.57%) Azure
3 5 (3.57%) AWS
4 4 (2.86%) Datadog
4 4 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.14%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (2.14%) GitHub
5 3 (2.14%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.43%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.43%) GCP
7 1 (0.71%) Figma
7 1 (0.71%) SaaS
7 1 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.71%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) 3GPP
1 2 (1.43%) 4G
1 2 (1.43%) 5G
1 2 (1.43%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (1.43%) ICMP
1 2 (1.43%) IPv4
1 2 (1.43%) IPv6
1 2 (1.43%) SCTP
1 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.43%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.71%) ATM
2 1 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.71%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (21.43%) Tableau
2 3 (2.14%) Mixpanel
2 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.71%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (22.86%) JIRA
2 9 (6.43%) eCATT
2 9 (6.43%) Selenium
3 7 (5.00%) Postman
4 6 (4.29%) Subversion
5 3 (2.14%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (2.14%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (2.14%) Fiddler
5 3 (2.14%) Git
5 3 (2.14%) JMeter
5 3 (2.14%) Maven
5 3 (2.14%) TestNG
5 3 (2.14%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.14%) WebDriver
5 3 (2.14%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.43%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.43%) TestRail
7 1 (0.71%) GitLab
7 1 (0.71%) Katalon Studio
General
1 82 (58.57%) Finance
2 60 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (25.71%) Social Skills
4 33 (23.57%) Banking
4 33 (23.57%) Financial Institution
4 33 (23.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (15.71%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (7.86%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (7.14%) Manufacturing
7 10 (7.14%) Marketing
8 9 (6.43%) Electronics
9 8 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (4.29%) Law
11 3 (2.14%) Advertising
11 3 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.43%) Legal
12 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.43%) Retail
13 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (40.00%) Analyst
2 31 (22.14%) Data Analyst
3 25 (17.86%) Systems Engineer
4 17 (12.14%) Senior
5 16 (11.43%) Test Analyst
6 11 (7.86%) Technical Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Technical Support
7 10 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
8 9 (6.43%) Automation Test Analyst
9 8 (5.71%) Resilience Manager
9 8 (5.71%) Senior Support Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Senior Technical Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Senior Technical Support
9 8 (5.71%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Tester
10 7 (5.00%) Lead
10 7 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
10 7 (5.00%) Test Engineer
11 5 (3.57%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.86%) XML
2 3 (2.14%) .NET
2 3 (2.14%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.43%) Playwright
4 1 (0.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 36 (25.71%) Self-Motivation
2 20 (14.29%) e-Learning
3 10 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.71%) Satnav
5 5 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.14%) W3C
7 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.43%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.43%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.29%) Linux
2 4 (2.86%) Windows
3 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (35.00%) Risk Management
3 46 (32.86%) Test Automation
4 39 (27.86%) AI
5 36 (25.71%) Analytics
6 34 (24.29%) Agile
6 34 (24.29%) Business Strategy
7 33 (23.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (23.57%) Migration
8 32 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (22.86%) Workflow
9 31 (22.14%) Mathematics
9 31 (22.14%) Stress Testing
10 30 (21.43%) Asset Management
10 30 (21.43%) Data Analysis
10 30 (21.43%) Data Science
10 30 (21.43%) Portfolio Management
10 30 (21.43%) Risk Analytics
10 30 (21.43%) Statistical Modelling
10 30 (21.43%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 38 (27.14%) Python
2 15 (10.71%) SQL
3 11 (7.86%) Java
4 5 (3.57%) C#
5 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 50 (35.71%) Degree
2 30 (21.43%) Numerate Degree
3 25 (17.86%) Security Cleared
4 24 (17.14%) SC Cleared
5 8 (5.71%) HND
5 8 (5.71%) ISTQB
6 7 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (2.14%) ISEB
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.43%) CISM
8 2 (1.43%) CISSP
8 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.43%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.43%) OSCE
8 2 (1.43%) OSCP
9 1 (0.71%) CRISC
9 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (24.29%) Data Quality
2 17 (12.14%) QA
3 6 (4.29%) GDPR
4 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.43%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.71%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.71%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.71%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Firmware
2 1 (0.71%) Terminal Server
2 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (6.43%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.14%) Grafana
3 1 (0.71%) Kibana
3 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.71%) SCCM
3 1 (0.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (21.43%) Alteryx
1 30 (21.43%) Bloomberg
2 20 (14.29%) Sparx
3 12 (8.57%) SAP
4 9 (6.43%) HP
4 9 (6.43%) Salesforce
5 7 (5.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.86%) Oracle
7 3 (2.14%) Adobe
7 3 (2.14%) Tealium
8 2 (1.43%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.43%) Workday
9 1 (0.71%) Cisco
9 1 (0.71%) Concur
9 1 (0.71%) Genesys
9 1 (0.71%) Juniper
9 1 (0.71%) Siebel
9 1 (0.71%) YouTube