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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 49 61
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 10 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.15% 1.32% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.54% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 2
10th Percentile £360 £388 £545
25th Percentile £423 £443 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £713 £575 £631
90th Percentile £738 - £635
England median daily rate £461 £443 £517
% change year-on-year +4.24% -14.41% -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 739 585 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.85% 85.65% 83.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 342 462
10th Percentile £189 £263 £213
25th Percentile £352 £350 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -6.63% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £588
90th Percentile £637 £636 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 29 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £15.08 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.67
Median hourly rate £18.87 £24.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +6.67% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.12 £39.68 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 - 10 £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 (20.00%) Apache
Business Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (30.00%) General Ledger
4 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Automation Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Tester
3 2 (20.00%) ERP Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Financials Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (20.00%) ADO
2 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Accounts Payable
1 7 (70.00%) ERP
2 4 (40.00%) Cash Management
2 4 (40.00%) Change Management
2 4 (40.00%) Cutover Planning
2 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Accounts Receivable
3 3 (30.00%) Defect Management
3 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle