Test Planning Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Test Planning
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Test Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 49 62
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 11 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.24% 1.52% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.75% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 1
10th Percentile - £388 -
25th Percentile £360 £443 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £688 £575 £613
90th Percentile £738 - -
England median daily rate £484 £425 £517
% change year-on-year +13.82% -17.79% -3.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 745 514 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.90% 86.97% 83.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 318 432
10th Percentile £189 £250 £213
25th Percentile £354 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £433 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -7.48% -1.53%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £641 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 44
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.29 £12.30
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.00 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £62.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Test Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in the East Midlands

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 December 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
Leicestershire - 11 £625 - 2
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (18.18%) Apache
Business Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle Cash Management
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (27.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (36.36%) General Ledger
3 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Analyst
1 4 (36.36%) Test Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Automation Tester
2 3 (27.27%) Tester
3 2 (18.18%) ERP Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle Financials Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (27.27%) ADO
3 2 (18.18%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Accounts Payable
1 8 (72.73%) ERP
2 4 (36.36%) Accounts Receivable
2 4 (36.36%) Cash Management
2 4 (36.36%) Change Management
2 4 (36.36%) Cutover Planning
2 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Defect Management
2 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Manual Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Scenario Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
2 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle