Scenario Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Scenario Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scenario Testing over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 143 161
Rank change year-on-year +25 +18 -16
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 16 14 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.60% 0.42% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.48% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 26
10th Percentile £314 £338 £364
25th Percentile £348 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £375 £432
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -13.19% +23.43%
75th Percentile £383 £475 £497
90th Percentile £412 £535 £563
England median daily rate £462 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.60% +11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,204 2,905 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.09% 88.08% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,037 3,239
10th Percentile £234 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.15 £10.57
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.88 £13.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.97 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% +25.51% +14.94%
75th Percentile £33.25 £36.37 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.75 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.75% +48.60% +8.70%

Scenario Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scenario Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the Midlands

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scenario Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +21 13 £363 -3.33% 7
West Midlands +23 3 £344 -40.22% 4
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) Postman
1 1 (6.25%) Selenium
1 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
1 9 (56.25%) Test Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Tester
3 5 (31.25%) Automation Tester
3 5 (31.25%) Data Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (6.25%) QA Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Tester
5 1 (6.25%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) SPFx
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
1 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 7 (43.75%) System Integration Testing
4 6 (37.50%) Functional Testing
5 5 (31.25%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Exploratory Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Performance Testing
5 5 (31.25%) System Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 5 (31.25%) Test Strategy
5 5 (31.25%) Web Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Technology Transformation
7 2 (12.50%) Agile
7 2 (12.50%) Migration
8 1 (6.25%) Change Management
8 1 (6.25%) Integration Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Regression Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) C#
1 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft