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 13 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 127 154
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 +43
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 6 7 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.29% 0.30% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile £355 £462 £413
25th Percentile £419 £479 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +1.55% -8.09%
75th Percentile £643 £638 £838
90th Percentile £653 £670 £888
London median daily rate £471 £475 £521
% change year-on-year -0.84% -8.78% -4.18%

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 1,926 2,123 3,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.72% 91.71% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,275 1,447 2,208
10th Percentile £325 £375 £340
25th Percentile £425 £472 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 21 18
10th Percentile £19.14 £16.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.50 £15.59
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -22.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £49.22 £61.25 £41.24
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £57.73
London median hourly rate £29.50 £35.61 £40.25
% change year-on-year -17.15% -11.54% +8.78%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 0 6 £575 +9.52% 1
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
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%) Appium
2 1 (16.67%) eggPlant
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Flutter
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) CBAP
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) 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