Test Planning Contracts in Edinburgh

Test Planning
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Test Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Planning over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 75 104
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +27
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.47% 0.46% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.54% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £526 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.66% - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £526 £450
% change year-on-year +4.66% +16.78% +2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 609 742 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.01% 85.39% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 417 773
10th Percentile £225 £213 £225
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £532 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 28 6
10th Percentile £16.85 £13.24 £17.21
25th Percentile - £15.96 £21.36
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.77 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% -41.49% +69.76%
75th Percentile £37.09 £55.63 £51.25
90th Percentile £63.00 £60.75 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.64 £15.25
% change year-on-year -7.58% +41.95% -59.27%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Test Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Test Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Test Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes