Scenario Testing Contracts

Scenario Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 430 410
Rank change year-on-year +111 -20 -10
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 274 304 544
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.57% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 211 349
10th Percentile £328 £355 £313
25th Percentile £363 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £567 £638 £550
90th Percentile £636 £775 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £439 £432
% change year-on-year -3.13% +1.56% +1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £16.75
25th Percentile - - £19.19
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £26.13
90th Percentile - - £28.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - -25.25%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scenario Testing in the UK

Scenario Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +85 215 £450 -10.00% 73
London +98 121 £475 -20.83% 26
Work from Home +110 110 £481 -8.33% 26
UK excluding London +39 103 £425 -3.13% 44
South East +19 29 £475 +13.77% 12
Midlands +39 20 £363 -3.33% 10
Scotland +22 18 £475 +11.37% 3
East Midlands +24 15 £363 -3.33% 6
North of England +10 14 £413 -17.50% 7
South West +24 13 £500 +3.09% 3
East of England +15 9 £375 -46.43% 9
North West +24 7 £400 -20.00% 4
Yorkshire +7 6 - - 2
West Midlands +23 5 £344 -47.12% 4
North East +16 1 £450 -28.00% 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 13 (4.74%) Confluence
2 6 (2.19%) CMS
3 5 (1.82%) IIS
3 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.46%) JBoss
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.73%) Mingle
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.82%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.46%) SAP EWM
3 4 (1.46%) SAP PS
3 4 (1.46%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (1.09%) Endur
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle HRMS
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.09%) SAP HR
4 3 (1.09%) SAP MRS
4 3 (1.09%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.04%) Azure
2 29 (10.58%) AWS
3 15 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (2.19%) Power Platform
6 5 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (1.82%) BrowserStack
6 5 (1.82%) OCI
6 5 (1.82%) SAP Fieldglass
6 5 (1.82%) Serverless
7 4 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.09%) GCP
9 2 (0.73%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (0.73%) GitHub
10 1 (0.36%) FinancialForce
10 1 (0.36%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.36%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.19%) Firewall
2 2 (0.73%) 5G
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) LAN
3 1 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.82%) Power BI
3 4 (1.46%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (1.46%) DB2
3 4 (1.46%) MS Access
3 4 (1.46%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.46%) Tableau
4 2 (0.73%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.73%) SAP HANA
4 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.36%) Big Data
5 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.36%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.36%) HDInsight
5 1 (0.36%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (18.61%) JIRA
2 30 (10.95%) Cucumber
3 26 (9.49%) Selenium
4 17 (6.20%) Jenkins
5 15 (5.47%) Postman
6 10 (3.65%) Git
6 10 (3.65%) JMeter
6 10 (3.65%) JUnit
7 8 (2.92%) Gatling
8 7 (2.55%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.55%) LoadRunner
9 6 (2.19%) SoapUI
10 4 (1.46%) TestNG
10 4 (1.46%) Vagrant
10 4 (1.46%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.09%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.09%) Maven
11 3 (1.09%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 89 (32.48%) Finance
2 67 (24.45%) Social Skills
3 28 (10.22%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.76%) Banking
6 14 (5.11%) Retail
7 12 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.92%) Games
8 8 (2.92%) Legal
8 8 (2.92%) Marketing
8 8 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.19%) Billing
10 5 (1.82%) Back Office
10 5 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.46%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.09%) General Ledger
12 3 (1.09%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 86 (31.39%) Analyst
2 42 (15.33%) Test Analyst
2 42 (15.33%) Tester
3 28 (10.22%) Senior
4 26 (9.49%) Test Engineer
5 24 (8.76%) Lead
6 20 (7.30%) Business Analyst
6 20 (7.30%) Consultant
7 19 (6.93%) Test Manager
8 18 (6.57%) Architect
8 18 (6.57%) Test Leader
9 14 (5.11%) Manual Tester
9 14 (5.11%) QA Engineer
10 11 (4.01%) Data Analyst
10 11 (4.01%) UAT Analyst
11 10 (3.65%) Developer
11 10 (3.65%) QA Tester
12 9 (3.28%) Automation Tester
12 9 (3.28%) Project Analyst
13 8 (2.92%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.84%) REST
2 10 (3.65%) ADO
2 10 (3.65%) Gherkin
3 9 (3.28%) Spring
4 7 (2.55%) J2EE
4 7 (2.55%) Kafka
5 6 (2.19%) Apache Camel
5 6 (2.19%) Swagger
6 5 (1.82%) AngularJS
6 5 (1.82%) HTML
6 5 (1.82%) JSON
6 5 (1.82%) Node.js
6 5 (1.82%) OpenAPI
6 5 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (1.82%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.82%) XML
7 4 (1.46%) CSS
7 4 (1.46%) Jest
7 4 (1.46%) SAP Fiori
7 4 (1.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.65%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.92%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.19%) Reinsurance
6 5 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.82%) PKI
6 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.46%) e-Health
8 3 (1.09%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.73%) Derivative
9 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.73%) NHS
10 1 (0.36%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Robotics
10 1 (0.36%) Social Media
10 1 (0.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.36%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.65%) Unix
1 10 (3.65%) Windows
2 8 (2.92%) Linux
3 5 (1.82%) AIX
3 5 (1.82%) VMS
4 4 (1.46%) Solaris
5 3 (1.09%) Android
5 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (33.94%) Test Automation
2 91 (33.21%) Agile
3 87 (31.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 60 (21.90%) Test Scripting
5 50 (18.25%) Test Strategy
6 49 (17.88%) End-to-End Testing
7 43 (15.69%) Migration
8 37 (13.50%) Test Management
9 36 (13.14%) DevOps
10 34 (12.41%) Acceptance Criteria
10 34 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (12.04%) Regression Testing
12 31 (11.31%) Functional Testing
13 29 (10.58%) Manual Testing
13 29 (10.58%) System Integration Testing
14 28 (10.22%) Software Testing
14 28 (10.22%) Test Planning
14 28 (10.22%) User Stories
15 27 (9.85%) Scrum
16 26 (9.49%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 37 (13.50%) SQL
2 30 (10.95%) Java
3 22 (8.03%) Python
4 17 (6.20%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.19%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.82%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.46%) C#
7 4 (1.46%) Perl
7 4 (1.46%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.46%) Ruby
8 3 (1.09%) ABAP
9 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.36%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.36%) Bash
10 1 (0.36%) Scala
10 1 (0.36%) SOQL
10 1 (0.36%) VB
10 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (11.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.03%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.66%) Degree
4 8 (2.92%) ISTQB
4 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.09%) SAP Certification
7 2 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.36%) CCA
8 1 (0.36%) ISEB
8 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (26.64%) QA
2 11 (4.01%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.46%) PMO
5 3 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.09%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.09%) WCAG
6 2 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.36%) IFRS
7 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (2.92%) Docker
2 6 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.36%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.82%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.46%) Opsgenie
2 4 (1.46%) Tivoli
3 3 (1.09%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.36%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Terraform
4 1 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 39 (14.23%) Oracle
2 34 (12.41%) SAP
3 21 (7.66%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.38%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.92%) Splunk
6 7 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.19%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.19%) HP
8 4 (1.46%) Adobe
8 4 (1.46%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.46%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.46%) F5
8 4 (1.46%) IBM
8 4 (1.46%) PagerDuty
8 4 (1.46%) Qualtrics
8 4 (1.46%) SimCorp
8 4 (1.46%) VMware
9 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.73%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud