Test Planning Contracts in Central London

Test Planning
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Test Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Planning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 125 165
Rank change year-on-year +2 +40 +26
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 6 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.30% 0.33% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.36% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £351 £516 £620
25th Percentile £355 £522 £706
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £588 £850
Median % change year-on-year -36.17% -30.88% +41.67%
75th Percentile £520 £638 -
90th Percentile £600 - -
London median daily rate £425 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -26.09% -2.13% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Test Planning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in Central London

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in Central London

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in Central London

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in Central London

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +6 6 £375 -36.17%
Test Planning
London

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Kondor
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Power Automate
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) LAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) eggPlant
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Desktop Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Transformation Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Market Risk Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) PMO Manager
2 1 (16.67%) PMO Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Test Management
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Change Control
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CBAP
2 1 (16.67%) IIBA
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft