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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 408 405
Rank change year-on-year +58 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing Scenario Testing 260 299 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.54% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.60% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 206 386
10th Percentile £322 £363 £314
25th Percentile £363 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £574 £669 £546
90th Percentile £688 £775 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £426
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.63% +9.94%
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 - - -49.66%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +73 212 £462 -7.60% 79
London +71 121 £475 -24.00% 44
Work from Home +92 105 £481 -3.75% 26
UK excluding London +12 90 £425 -5.56% 36
South East +16 28 £475 +13.10% 10
Midlands +24 15 £363 -3.33% 4
South West +11 15 £520 +12.43% 4
North of England +9 13 £413 -17.50% 6
East Midlands +15 12 £363 -3.33% 3
East of England +9 12 £375 -46.43% 4
Scotland +16 7 £475 +10.98% 4
North West +6 6 £400 -20.00% 6
Yorkshire +2 6 - -
West Midlands +12 3 £344 -40.22% 1
North East - 1 £450 -

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 8 (3.08%) Confluence
2 6 (2.31%) CMS
3 5 (1.92%) IIS
4 4 (1.54%) JBoss
5 2 (0.77%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.77%) Mingle
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (4.23%) SAP ERP
2 6 (2.31%) SAP Payroll
3 5 (1.92%) SimCorp Dimension
4 4 (1.54%) SAP EWM
4 4 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.15%) Endur
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle HRMS
5 3 (1.15%) SAP HR
5 3 (1.15%) SAP MRS
5 3 (1.15%) SAP PS
5 3 (1.15%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.77%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 35 (13.46%) Azure
2 24 (9.23%) AWS
3 19 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
6 6 (2.31%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.92%) BrowserStack
7 5 (1.92%) SAP Fieldglass
8 4 (1.54%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.54%) Azure API Management
8 4 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (1.54%) Serverless
9 3 (1.15%) GCP
9 3 (1.15%) GitHub
10 2 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.77%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.38%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.38%) LAN
2 1 (0.38%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (1.92%) Oracle Database
1 5 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (1.92%) Power BI
2 4 (1.54%) Big Data
2 4 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
2 4 (1.54%) DB2
2 4 (1.54%) MS Access
2 4 (1.54%) Tableau
3 2 (0.77%) Apache Hive
3 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
3 2 (0.77%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.77%) Impala
3 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.38%) HDInsight
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 41 (15.77%) JIRA
2 24 (9.23%) Selenium
3 20 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 15 (5.77%) JMeter
5 13 (5.00%) Postman
6 12 (4.62%) LoadRunner
7 11 (4.23%) Jenkins
8 6 (2.31%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.31%) Gatling
8 6 (2.31%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.92%) Git
9 5 (1.92%) JUnit
10 4 (1.54%) Vagrant
10 4 (1.54%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.15%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.15%) Maven
11 3 (1.15%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (33.85%) Finance
2 62 (23.85%) Social Skills
3 28 (10.77%) Banking
4 27 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.15%) Retail
7 8 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.69%) Legal
9 6 (2.31%) Billing
9 6 (2.31%) Games
9 6 (2.31%) Marketing
10 5 (1.92%) Back Office
10 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.15%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.15%) Local Government
11 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.15%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (30.00%) Analyst
2 44 (16.92%) Tester
3 34 (13.08%) Test Analyst
4 26 (10.00%) Senior
5 24 (9.23%) Lead
6 23 (8.85%) Business Analyst
7 21 (8.08%) Consultant
7 21 (8.08%) Test Manager
8 19 (7.31%) Test Engineer
9 17 (6.54%) Architect
9 17 (6.54%) Test Leader
10 14 (5.38%) Manual Tester
11 13 (5.00%) QA Engineer
12 12 (4.62%) Data Analyst
13 10 (3.85%) Automation Tester
14 9 (3.46%) QA Tester
14 9 (3.46%) Technical Analyst
15 8 (3.08%) Oracle Analyst
15 8 (3.08%) Project Analyst
16 7 (2.69%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.85%) ADO
1 10 (3.85%) REST
1 10 (3.85%) Swagger
2 8 (3.08%) Gherkin
3 5 (1.92%) AngularJS
3 5 (1.92%) HTML
3 5 (1.92%) JSON
3 5 (1.92%) OpenAPI
3 5 (1.92%) Spring
3 5 (1.92%) XML
4 4 (1.54%) CSS
4 4 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
4 4 (1.54%) Web Services
5 3 (1.15%) Middleware
5 3 (1.15%) Node.js
5 3 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.77%) Jest
6 2 (0.77%) Kafka
6 2 (0.77%) SailPoint
6 2 (0.77%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.62%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.69%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (1.92%) PKI
4 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.54%) e-Health
5 4 (1.54%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.77%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.77%) Derivative
7 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.77%) FMCG
7 2 (0.77%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.77%) Social Media
8 1 (0.38%) Mobile Banking
8 1 (0.38%) Robotics
8 1 (0.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.38%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.62%) Unix
2 10 (3.85%) Linux
2 10 (3.85%) Windows
3 5 (1.92%) AIX
3 5 (1.92%) VMS
4 4 (1.54%) Solaris
5 3 (1.15%) Android
5 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.23%) Test Automation
2 87 (33.46%) User Acceptance Testing
3 75 (28.85%) Agile
4 60 (23.08%) Test Scripting
5 48 (18.46%) End-to-End Testing
5 48 (18.46%) Test Strategy
6 42 (16.15%) DevOps
7 38 (14.62%) Acceptance Criteria
7 38 (14.62%) Migration
7 38 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (13.46%) Regression Testing
9 33 (12.69%) User Stories
10 32 (12.31%) Test Management
11 27 (10.38%) Manual Testing
11 27 (10.38%) Scrum
12 26 (10.00%) Functional Testing
12 26 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
13 25 (9.62%) Project Management
13 25 (9.62%) Software Testing
13 25 (9.62%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.85%) SQL
2 23 (8.85%) Java
3 18 (6.92%) Python
4 16 (6.15%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.54%) C#
5 4 (1.54%) Perl
5 4 (1.54%) Ruby
5 4 (1.54%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.15%) ABAP
6 3 (1.15%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.77%) Scala
8 1 (0.38%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.38%) Bash
8 1 (0.38%) SOQL
8 1 (0.38%) VB
8 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.62%) Degree
3 17 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.69%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.31%) CIPD
7 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.15%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.38%) CCA
9 1 (0.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (24.62%) QA
2 12 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.54%) PMO
5 3 (1.15%) WCAG
6 2 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS
7 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.15%) Docker
3 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.54%) HP ALM
1 4 (1.54%) Kubernetes
1 4 (1.54%) Opsgenie
1 4 (1.54%) Tivoli
2 3 (1.15%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.77%) Control-M
4 1 (0.38%) Ansible
4 1 (0.38%) Terraform
4 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 37 (14.23%) SAP
2 28 (10.77%) Oracle
3 25 (9.62%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.23%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.69%) Splunk
7 6 (2.31%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.31%) HP
8 5 (1.92%) SimCorp
9 4 (1.54%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.54%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.54%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.54%) F5
9 4 (1.54%) IBM
9 4 (1.54%) OpenText
9 4 (1.54%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.54%) VMware
10 3 (1.15%) Adobe
10 3 (1.15%) Qualtrics
11 2 (0.77%) Ariba