Scenario Testing Contracts in the North of England

Scenario Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 171 181 203
Rank change year-on-year +10 +22 -42
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 13 33 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.28% 0.59% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.65% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 31
10th Percentile £338 £406 £354
25th Percentile £369 £456 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £427
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +17.10% +3.52%
75th Percentile £472 £588 £500
90th Percentile £538 £650 £538
England median daily rate £462 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.60% +11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,945 5,094 6,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.39% 90.48% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,422 3,502 4,614
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £401 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 204 264
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.54 £13.47
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.84 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.35% +46.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.94 £37.07
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scenario Testing in the North of England

Scenario Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the North of England

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the North of England

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scenario Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the North of England

Scenario Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +8 6 £400 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire +5 6 - - 2
North East +14 1 £450 -28.00%
Scenario Testing
England

Scenario Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP EWM
1 1 (7.69%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
1 1 (7.69%) Commercetools
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JMeter
2 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Postman
4 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.69%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) General Ledger
5 1 (7.69%) Local Government
5 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Business Process Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Process Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Test Leader
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Junior
4 1 (7.69%) Junior Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Manual Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Tester
4 1 (7.69%) QA Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (7.69%) Swagger
2 1 (7.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
2 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Defect Tracking
3 4 (30.77%) Test Planning
3 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Test Strategy
4 3 (23.08%) User Stories
5 2 (15.38%) API Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 2 (15.38%) Defect Management
6 1 (7.69%) Product Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
1 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.69%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SAP Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) Ceridian
2 1 (7.69%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) SAP