Test Planning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 323 388 409
Rank change year-on-year +65 +21 -22
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 65 59 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.28% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 63
10th Percentile £351 £341 £282
25th Percentile £363 £400 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% +14.29%
75th Percentile £524 £588 £525
90th Percentile £572 £625 £570
UK median daily rate £513 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +10.81% -7.50% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £69.75 £72.00 -
25th Percentile £86.25 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% - -
75th Percentile £88.75 £85.00 -
90th Percentile £89.50 £88.00 -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% +162.30% +22.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Planning in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region 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
North of England +28 19 £509 +0.20% 5
East of England +19 12 £375 - 3
Midlands +37 11 £450 -10.00% 7
North West +25 10 £575 -4.17% 5
South West +22 10 £393 -1.88% 6
South East +11 9 £500 +8.11% 6
Yorkshire +23 8 £484 -3.30%
West Midlands +22 7 £475 -5.00% 4
Scotland +40 4 £526 +33.89% 3
East Midlands - 4 £335 - 3
North East +17 1 £500 -
Test Planning
UK

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (6.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.69%) Azure
2 4 (6.15%) AWS
2 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (6.15%) SaaS
3 1 (1.54%) BrowserStack
3 1 (1.54%) Commercetools
3 1 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.54%) OCI
3 1 (1.54%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (18.46%) JIRA
2 7 (10.77%) JMeter
3 6 (9.23%) Selenium
4 4 (6.15%) CppUnit
4 4 (6.15%) PVCS
4 4 (6.15%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (4.62%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.62%) Postman
6 2 (3.08%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.08%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.54%) GitLab
7 1 (1.54%) GoCD
7 1 (1.54%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.54%) TestCafe
7 1 (1.54%) TestRail
General
1 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.77%) Finance
3 6 (9.23%) Games
4 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Banking
4 4 (6.15%) Legal
4 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.62%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.54%) Aviation
6 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Analyst
2 19 (29.23%) Test Manager
3 15 (23.08%) Lead
3 15 (23.08%) Test Analyst
4 14 (21.54%) Test Leader
5 8 (12.31%) Senior
6 6 (9.23%) Tester
7 5 (7.69%) Business Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Validation Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Verification Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Network Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) QA Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Test Analyst
10 2 (3.08%) Business IT Analyst
10 2 (3.08%) IT Business Analyst
10 2 (3.08%) SAP Manager
10 2 (3.08%) SAP Test Manager
10 2 (3.08%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) LDAP
2 3 (4.62%) Gherkin
3 2 (3.08%) .NET
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.54%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.08%) Equities
1 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.54%) NHS
2 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Android
1 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.15%) Test Management
2 23 (35.38%) Test Strategy
3 20 (30.77%) Agile
4 19 (29.23%) User Acceptance Testing
5 18 (27.69%) Test Automation
5 18 (27.69%) Test Scripting
6 17 (26.15%) Scenario Testing
7 15 (23.08%) Defect Management
8 12 (18.46%) Acceptance Criteria
9 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (12.31%) Validation
11 7 (10.77%) Defect Tracking
11 7 (10.77%) DevOps
11 7 (10.77%) Functional Testing
11 7 (10.77%) Regression Testing
12 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (9.23%) Manual Testing
12 6 (9.23%) Project Delivery
12 6 (9.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.69%) Python
2 4 (6.15%) C
2 4 (6.15%) C++
3 3 (4.62%) Java
4 2 (3.08%) SQL
5 1 (1.54%) C#
5 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.54%) ProC
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.69%) ISTQB
4 4 (6.15%) Degree
4 4 (6.15%) ISEB
5 2 (3.08%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (27.69%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.08%) PMO
3 1 (1.54%) COREP
3 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.54%) FINREP
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Ansible
2 3 (4.62%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.54%) Grafana
3 1 (1.54%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) VMware
3 3 (4.62%) Oracle
3 3 (4.62%) SAP
4 1 (1.54%) Adobe
4 1 (1.54%) Apple
4 1 (1.54%) Cerner
4 1 (1.54%) HP
4 1 (1.54%) Workday