Test Planning Contracts

Test Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 417 564 595
Rank change year-on-year +147 +31 -50
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 164 136 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.25% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 89 182
10th Percentile £363 £373 £306
25th Percentile £413 £408 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 £478
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -3.14% +15.76%
75th Percentile £606 £588 £550
90th Percentile £712 £679 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £69.75 - £26.45
25th Percentile £86.25 - £27.88
Median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +129.51% +22.00%
75th Percentile £88.75 - £32.88
90th Percentile £89.50 - £34.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Planning over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
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 Test Planning within the UK 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
England +153 153 £515 +2.95% 32
London +152 87 £575 -2.13% 14
UK excluding London +75 66 £450 -2.70% 23
Work from Home +121 58 £517 +14.89% 9
North of England +31 20 £500 - 5
East of England +24 12 £375 -
Midlands +32 11 £450 -10.00% 5
South West +22 10 £393 -1.88% 2
North West +21 10 £575 +13.30% 5
South East +13 9 £500 +8.11% 6
Yorkshire +22 8 £484 -3.30%
West Midlands +31 7 £475 -5.00% 4
Scotland +34 4 £526 +33.89% 3
East Midlands - 4 £335 - 1
North East +22 2 £500 -

Test Planning
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 15 (9.15%) Confluence
2 2 (1.22%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.44%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.83%) Windchill
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (9.15%) Loan IQ
2 3 (1.83%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.83%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.83%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.22%) Cerner Millennium
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.61%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.61%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.61%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.32%) Azure
2 10 (6.10%) AWS
3 7 (4.27%) SaaS
4 6 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.05%) BrowserStack
5 5 (3.05%) Firebase
5 5 (3.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (2.44%) BlazeMeter
7 3 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (1.83%) PaaS
8 2 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.22%) GCP
8 2 (1.22%) GitHub
8 2 (1.22%) OCI
8 2 (1.22%) Oracle CX
8 2 (1.22%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.22%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.37%) BGP
1 17 (10.37%) Ethernet VPN
1 17 (10.37%) HSRP
1 17 (10.37%) IPv4
1 17 (10.37%) MPLS
1 17 (10.37%) RSVP
1 17 (10.37%) SNMP
1 17 (10.37%) VPLS
1 17 (10.37%) VRRP
2 9 (5.49%) Cisco IOS
2 9 (5.49%) IOS XR
3 4 (2.44%) Internet
4 3 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.83%) Wireless
5 1 (0.61%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.61%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.61%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.61%) Big Data
3 1 (0.61%) HDInsight
3 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (21.95%) JIRA
2 15 (9.15%) Selenium
3 12 (7.32%) JMeter
4 10 (6.10%) Cucumber
4 10 (6.10%) Postman
5 8 (4.88%) Cypress.io
5 8 (4.88%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.27%) GitLab
7 6 (3.66%) Appium
8 4 (2.44%) CppUnit
8 4 (2.44%) Git
8 4 (2.44%) PVCS
8 4 (2.44%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (2.44%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.83%) JUnit
9 3 (1.83%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.83%) TestNG
10 2 (1.22%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.22%) TestRail
11 1 (0.61%) GoCD
General
1 55 (33.54%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.93%) Banking
4 12 (7.32%) Finance
5 11 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.88%) Games
6 8 (4.88%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.88%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.05%) Legal
8 4 (2.44%) Back Office
8 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.44%) Marketing
8 4 (2.44%) Wholesale Banking
9 3 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.83%) Retail
10 2 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.22%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (26.22%) Analyst
2 31 (18.90%) Lead
3 28 (17.07%) Test Manager
4 27 (16.46%) Test Analyst
5 25 (15.24%) Test Leader
6 23 (14.02%) Business Analyst
7 22 (13.41%) Tester
8 17 (10.37%) IP Expert
9 10 (6.10%) Senior
10 9 (5.49%) Cisco Expert
11 6 (3.66%) Automation Tester
11 6 (3.66%) Business IT Analyst
11 6 (3.66%) IT Analyst
11 6 (3.66%) IT Business Analyst
12 5 (3.05%) QA Tester
12 5 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (3.05%) Senior Test Analyst
13 4 (2.44%) QA Analyst
13 4 (2.44%) QA Test Analyst
13 4 (2.44%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.37%) Jinja
1 17 (10.37%) JSON
1 17 (10.37%) NETCONF
1 17 (10.37%) XML
1 17 (10.37%) YANG
2 8 (4.88%) ADO
3 7 (4.27%) Middleware
4 5 (3.05%) Gherkin
4 5 (3.05%) WebdriverIO
5 4 (2.44%) LDAP
6 3 (1.83%) .NET
6 3 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.83%) pytest
6 3 (1.83%) REST
7 2 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.22%) Web Services
8 1 (0.61%) Jest
8 1 (0.61%) Kafka
8 1 (0.61%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.61%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.37%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (3.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.44%) IoT
4 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.22%) Equities
5 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.22%) NHS
5 2 (1.22%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.61%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.61%) FMCG
6 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.44%) Unix
2 1 (0.61%) Android
2 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (34.76%) Agile
2 48 (29.27%) Test Automation
3 45 (27.44%) Test Management
4 35 (21.34%) Test Strategy
5 33 (20.12%) User Acceptance Testing
6 30 (18.29%) DevOps
6 30 (18.29%) Test Scripting
7 29 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (17.68%) Scenario Testing
8 26 (15.85%) Project Management
9 22 (13.41%) Defect Management
9 22 (13.41%) Project Delivery
10 21 (12.80%) Software Testing
11 20 (12.20%) Regression Testing
12 19 (11.59%) Migration
12 19 (11.59%) Performance Testing
13 18 (10.98%) CI/CD
13 18 (10.98%) Defect Tracking
14 17 (10.37%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (10.37%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.37%) Python
2 13 (7.93%) Java
3 11 (6.71%) SQL
4 6 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.44%) C
5 4 (2.44%) C#
5 4 (2.44%) C++
6 2 (1.22%) R
7 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.61%) ProC
7 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.76%) ISTQB
2 16 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.93%) Degree
4 9 (5.49%) CCIE
4 9 (5.49%) CCIE Service Provider
4 9 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.66%) ISEB
6 3 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.22%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.22%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.22%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.22%) PMP
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (28.05%) QA
2 6 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.22%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.22%) PMO
5 1 (0.61%) COREP
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) FINREP
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.44%) Ansible
1 4 (2.44%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.61%) Grafana
2 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (10.37%) Nokia
2 10 (6.10%) SAP
3 9 (5.49%) Cisco
3 9 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.49%) Oracle
4 8 (4.88%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.44%) VMware
6 3 (1.83%) PTC
6 3 (1.83%) Siemens
7 2 (1.22%) Ariba
7 2 (1.22%) Cerner
7 2 (1.22%) Databricks
7 2 (1.22%) Genesys
7 2 (1.22%) HP
7 2 (1.22%) Workday
8 1 (0.61%) Adobe
8 1 (0.61%) Apple
8 1 (0.61%) Google
8 1 (0.61%) Informatica