Test Planning Contracts in the City of London

Test Planning
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 165 182
Rank change year-on-year +44 +17 -49
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 8 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.36% 0.19% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.21% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile £516 £620 £413
25th Percentile £522 £706 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £850 £550
Median % change year-on-year -30.88% +54.55% +46.67%
75th Percentile £638 - £625
90th Percentile - - £650
Central London median daily rate £588 £850 £550
% change year-on-year -30.88% +54.55% +46.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,011 3,350 3,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.88% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 2,249 2,943
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.93 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £43.25 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.20% +5.49% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the City of London

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the City of London

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the City of London

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (37.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Appium
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Business Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Fixed Income
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
1 1 (12.50%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Defect Tracking
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Asset Management
4 3 (37.50%) Data Management
4 3 (37.50%) Manual Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Logistics
6 1 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
6 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
6 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (12.50%) SDET
6 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Test Management
6 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (12.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) SAP