Test Planning Contracts in Scotland

Test Planning
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 160 155
Rank change year-on-year +34 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 4 3 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.10% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.11% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £496 £377 £306
25th Percentile £500 £379 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £393 £425
Median % change year-on-year +33.89% -7.65% -
75th Percentile £551 £438 £459
90th Percentile £555 £460 £480
UK median daily rate £513 £463 £478
% change year-on-year +10.81% -3.14% +15.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in Scotland

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in Scotland

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in Scotland

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 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
Edinburgh +42 4 £526 +33.89% 1
Test Planning
UK

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Equities
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Management
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Burndown Charts
2 2 (50.00%) Component Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) TMMi
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle