Test Planning Contracts in London

Test Planning
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Test Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Planning over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 456 489
Rank change year-on-year +149 +33 -83
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 87 45 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.49% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.18% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 26 81
10th Percentile £380 £353 £350
25th Percentile £466 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +11.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £573
90th Percentile £725 £750 £625
England median daily rate £515 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.95% - +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Test Planning 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Test Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in London

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in London.

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in London

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in London

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in London

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Central London +38 8 £588 -30.88% 2
West London - 2 £610 - 1
South London +10 1 £380 -45.13% 1
North London 0 1 £375 -21.05%
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 9 (10.34%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) CMS
3 1 (1.15%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.45%) MS Visio
1 3 (3.45%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 15 (17.24%) Loan IQ
2 3 (3.45%) ENOVIA
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (3.45%) Teamcenter
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.15%) SAP CX
4 1 (1.15%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (1.15%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.05%) Azure
2 6 (6.90%) AWS
3 4 (4.60%) SaaS
4 3 (3.45%) Firebase
4 3 (3.45%) PaaS
4 3 (3.45%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.30%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (2.30%) BrowserStack
5 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.30%) GCP
5 2 (2.30%) GitHub
5 2 (2.30%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.15%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 17 (19.54%) BGP
1 17 (19.54%) Ethernet VPN
1 17 (19.54%) HSRP
1 17 (19.54%) IPv4
1 17 (19.54%) MPLS
1 17 (19.54%) RSVP
1 17 (19.54%) SNMP
1 17 (19.54%) VPLS
1 17 (19.54%) VRRP
2 9 (10.34%) Cisco IOS
2 9 (10.34%) IOS XR
3 4 (4.60%) Internet
4 1 (1.15%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.30%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.15%) Big Data
4 1 (1.15%) HDInsight
4 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (22.99%) JIRA
2 9 (10.34%) Selenium
3 7 (8.05%) Cucumber
4 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.75%) Postman
6 4 (4.60%) Appium
6 4 (4.60%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.60%) Git
6 4 (4.60%) GitLab
7 3 (3.45%) JMeter
7 3 (3.45%) JUnit
7 3 (3.45%) REST Assured
7 3 (3.45%) TestNG
8 2 (2.30%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.15%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.15%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.15%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.15%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (42.53%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.20%) Banking
4 7 (8.05%) Investment Banking
4 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.60%) Back Office
5 4 (4.60%) Finance
5 4 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.60%) Marketing
5 4 (4.60%) Wholesale Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Games
7 1 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Legal
7 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Retail
7 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (21.84%) Analyst
1 19 (21.84%) Business Analyst
2 17 (19.54%) IP Expert
3 15 (17.24%) Lead
3 15 (17.24%) Tester
4 10 (11.49%) Test Analyst
4 10 (11.49%) Test Leader
5 9 (10.34%) Cisco Expert
6 4 (4.60%) Automation Tester
6 4 (4.60%) Business IT Analyst
6 4 (4.60%) IT Analyst
6 4 (4.60%) IT Business Analyst
6 4 (4.60%) QA Tester
6 4 (4.60%) Test Manager
7 3 (3.45%) Agile Business Analyst
7 3 (3.45%) QA Leader
7 3 (3.45%) Senior
8 2 (2.30%) Business Test Analyst
8 2 (2.30%) Consultant
8 2 (2.30%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.54%) Jinja
1 17 (19.54%) JSON
1 17 (19.54%) NETCONF
1 17 (19.54%) XML
1 17 (19.54%) YANG
2 6 (6.90%) ADO
3 5 (5.75%) Middleware
4 3 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (3.45%) pytest
4 3 (3.45%) REST
4 3 (3.45%) WebdriverIO
5 2 (2.30%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.30%) Web Services
6 1 (1.15%) .NET
6 1 (1.15%) CSS
6 1 (1.15%) HTML
6 1 (1.15%) Jest
6 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.15%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.15%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.54%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (4.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (4.60%) IoT
3 2 (2.30%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.15%) FMCG
4 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.15%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) Agile
2 25 (28.74%) Test Automation
3 23 (26.44%) DevOps
4 18 (20.69%) Migration
5 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (19.54%) Project Delivery
5 17 (19.54%) Project Management
6 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
6 12 (13.79%) Performance Testing
6 12 (13.79%) Test Management
6 12 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 11 (12.64%) Scenario Testing
8 10 (11.49%) Functional Testing
8 10 (11.49%) Regression Testing
8 10 (11.49%) Software Testing
8 10 (11.49%) Test Strategy
9 9 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (10.34%) Integration Testing
9 9 (10.34%) Manual Testing
9 9 (10.34%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.79%) Python
2 10 (11.49%) Java
3 9 (10.34%) SQL
4 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.45%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) R
7 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) CCIE
1 9 (10.34%) CCIE Service Provider
1 9 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (8.05%) Degree
3 6 (6.90%) ISTQB
4 5 (5.75%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.30%) ISEB
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (26.44%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.15%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Nokia
2 9 (10.34%) Cisco
3 8 (9.20%) Fortinet
4 5 (5.75%) SAP
5 3 (3.45%) Oracle
5 3 (3.45%) PTC
5 3 (3.45%) Siemens
6 2 (2.30%) Databricks
6 2 (2.30%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.15%) Google
7 1 (1.15%) Informatica
7 1 (1.15%) Workday