Test Planning Contracts in England

Test Planning
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 548 558
Rank change year-on-year +153 +10 -42
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 153 111 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.22% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.24% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 67 146
10th Percentile £363 £348 £309
25th Percentile £413 £407 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £487
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% +2.77% +21.63%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £550
90th Percentile £710 £698 £613
UK median daily rate £513 £463 £478
% change year-on-year +10.81% -3.14% +15.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £69.75 - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +169.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile £88.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £89.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% +129.51% +22.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,171 45,739 64,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.26% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,096 32,069 45,706
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,617 1,773
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Planning in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
London +152 87 £575 -2.13% 15
North of England +31 20 £500 - 5
East of England +24 12 £375 -
Midlands +32 11 £450 -10.00% 6
South West +22 10 £393 -1.88% 2
North West +21 10 £575 +13.30% 5
South East +13 9 £500 +8.11% 7
Yorkshire +22 8 £484 -3.30%
West Midlands +31 7 £475 -5.00% 5
East Midlands - 4 £335 - 1
North East +22 2 £500 -
Test Planning
UK

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (9.80%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) CMS
3 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.65%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.61%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.96%) Windchill
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (9.80%) Loan IQ
2 3 (1.96%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.96%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.96%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.31%) Cerner Millennium
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.65%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.65%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.65%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.65%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.84%) Azure
2 10 (6.54%) AWS
3 6 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.27%) BrowserStack
4 5 (3.27%) Firebase
4 5 (3.27%) SaaS
4 5 (3.27%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 4 (2.61%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.96%) PaaS
7 2 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.31%) GCP
7 2 (1.31%) GitHub
7 2 (1.31%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.31%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.65%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.65%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.11%) BGP
1 17 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
1 17 (11.11%) HSRP
1 17 (11.11%) IPv4
1 17 (11.11%) MPLS
1 17 (11.11%) RSVP
1 17 (11.11%) SNMP
1 17 (11.11%) VPLS
1 17 (11.11%) VRRP
2 9 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
2 9 (5.88%) IOS XR
3 4 (2.61%) Internet
4 3 (1.96%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.96%) Wireless
5 1 (0.65%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.65%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.65%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.27%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.31%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.65%) Big Data
4 1 (0.65%) HDInsight
4 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (20.92%) JIRA
2 15 (9.80%) Selenium
3 12 (7.84%) JMeter
4 10 (6.54%) Cucumber
4 10 (6.54%) Postman
5 8 (5.23%) Cypress.io
5 8 (5.23%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.58%) GitLab
7 6 (3.92%) Appium
8 4 (2.61%) CppUnit
8 4 (2.61%) Git
8 4 (2.61%) PVCS
8 4 (2.61%) Rational DOORS
8 4 (2.61%) Zephyr
9 3 (1.96%) JUnit
9 3 (1.96%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.96%) TestNG
10 2 (1.31%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.31%) TestRail
11 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
General
1 49 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.19%) Banking
3 11 (7.19%) Finance
4 10 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.23%) Games
5 8 (5.23%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.58%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.27%) Legal
8 4 (2.61%) Back Office
8 4 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.61%) Marketing
8 4 (2.61%) Wholesale Banking
9 3 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.96%) Retail
10 2 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.31%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (26.80%) Analyst
2 29 (18.95%) Lead
3 27 (17.65%) Test Analyst
4 23 (15.03%) Business Analyst
4 23 (15.03%) Test Leader
5 22 (14.38%) Tester
6 20 (13.07%) Test Manager
7 17 (11.11%) IP Expert
8 10 (6.54%) Senior
9 9 (5.88%) Cisco Expert
10 6 (3.92%) Automation Tester
10 6 (3.92%) Business IT Analyst
10 6 (3.92%) IT Analyst
10 6 (3.92%) IT Business Analyst
11 5 (3.27%) QA Tester
11 5 (3.27%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.27%) Senior Test Analyst
12 4 (2.61%) QA Analyst
12 4 (2.61%) QA Test Analyst
12 4 (2.61%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.11%) Jinja
1 17 (11.11%) JSON
1 17 (11.11%) NETCONF
1 17 (11.11%) XML
1 17 (11.11%) YANG
2 7 (4.58%) Middleware
3 6 (3.92%) ADO
4 5 (3.27%) Gherkin
4 5 (3.27%) WebdriverIO
5 4 (2.61%) LDAP
6 3 (1.96%) .NET
6 3 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.96%) pytest
6 3 (1.96%) REST
7 2 (1.31%) Web Services
8 1 (0.65%) CSS
8 1 (0.65%) HTML
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.65%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.65%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (2.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (2.61%) IoT
3 2 (1.31%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.31%) NHS
3 2 (1.31%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.65%) FMCG
4 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.65%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.61%) Unix
2 1 (0.65%) Android
2 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.99%) Agile
2 45 (29.41%) Test Automation
3 40 (26.14%) Test Management
4 30 (19.61%) Test Strategy
5 28 (18.30%) DevOps
5 28 (18.30%) Scenario Testing
5 28 (18.30%) User Acceptance Testing
6 27 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (17.65%) Test Scripting
7 21 (13.73%) Project Management
8 20 (13.07%) Project Delivery
9 19 (12.42%) Migration
9 19 (12.42%) Performance Testing
10 18 (11.76%) CI/CD
10 18 (11.76%) Regression Testing
11 17 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
11 17 (11.11%) Functional Testing
11 17 (11.11%) Software Testing
11 17 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.11%) Python
2 13 (8.50%) Java
3 11 (7.19%) SQL
4 6 (3.92%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.61%) C
5 4 (2.61%) C#
5 4 (2.61%) C++
6 2 (1.31%) R
7 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.65%) ProC
7 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (12.42%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.19%) ISTQB
4 9 (5.88%) CCIE
4 9 (5.88%) CCIE Service Provider
4 9 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (5.88%) Degree
5 4 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.31%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.31%) ISEB
6 2 (1.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (28.76%) QA
2 6 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.65%) COREP
5 1 (0.65%) FINREP
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.61%) Ansible
2 2 (1.31%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.65%) Grafana
3 1 (0.65%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (11.11%) Nokia
2 9 (5.88%) Cisco
2 9 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.23%) Fortinet
3 8 (5.23%) SAP
4 5 (3.27%) Oracle
5 4 (2.61%) VMware
6 3 (1.96%) PTC
6 3 (1.96%) Siemens
7 2 (1.31%) Cerner
7 2 (1.31%) Databricks
7 2 (1.31%) Workday
8 1 (0.65%) Adobe
8 1 (0.65%) Apple
8 1 (0.65%) Google
8 1 (0.65%) HP
8 1 (0.65%) Informatica