Test Planning Contracts in Edinburgh

Test Planning
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 70 109 122
Rank change year-on-year +39 +13 -13
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.49% 0.077% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.081% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £496 - £336
25th Percentile £500 £384 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £393 £394
Median % change year-on-year +33.89% -0.32% -
75th Percentile £551 £401 £427
90th Percentile £555 - £437
Scotland median daily rate £526 £393 £425
% change year-on-year +33.89% -7.65% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 718 1,231 1,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.99% 95.20% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 879 1,251
10th Percentile £235 £260 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £559
90th Percentile £670 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 19
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.07 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.13
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -35.58% -39.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile - £64.90 £53.86
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Test Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in Edinburgh

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in Edinburgh

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Equities
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Management
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Burndown Charts
2 2 (50.00%) Component Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) TMMi
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) PMO
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle