Test Planning Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Test Planning
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Test Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 25 30
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 -
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.14% 1.00% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.10% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £380 £380
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% - -
South London median daily rate £600 £396 £380
% change year-on-year +51.42% +4.28% -45.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 159 91 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 90.34% 91.00% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 70 89
10th Percentile £456 £425 £276
25th Percentile £500 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £648 £604 £632
South London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £16.64
25th Percentile - - £17.06
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +286.47% -32.60% -49.29%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Croydon

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) WireMock
1 1 (50.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus