Test Planning Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Test Planning
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Test Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% 0.75% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.87% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £436 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% - -
North West median daily rate £447 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +11.75% -33.33% +37.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 622 461 356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.14% 86.17% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 281 208
10th Percentile £274 £325 £272
25th Percentile £358 £385 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £565 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £617
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 20 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +34.62% +61.79%
75th Percentile £40.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £44.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +40.00%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Test Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Test Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Knutsford - 2 £447 -
Test Planning
North West

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CICS
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SOAtest
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) General Ledger
1 2 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Payment
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Parasoft