Test Planning Contracts in England

Test Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 389 548
Rank change year-on-year +3 +159 +16
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 94 149 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.41% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.48% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 111 62
10th Percentile £346 £363 £375
25th Percentile £363 £409 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £513 £600 £619
90th Percentile £630 £710 £650
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -15.00% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 £72.00
25th Percentile £77.50 £79.38 £75.00
Median hourly rate £83.00 £87.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.14% +9.38% +237.62%
75th Percentile £87.81 £89.06 £85.00
90th Percentile £90.63 £89.63 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £87.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -5.14% +9.38% +207.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,762 31,336 43,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 86.24% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,222 20,550 30,257
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £412 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,253 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.88 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.71% -2.58% +44.08%

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 23 May 2025.

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
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 23 May 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
London +24 53 £500 -9.09% 45
North of England +17 20 £423 -18.28% 35
North West +14 15 £396 -34.00% 16
South East +51 8 £375 -25.00% 51
South West +30 4 £325 -17.20% 17
East of England +23 4 £428 +14.00% 28
Midlands +11 4 £425 -5.56% 30
Yorkshire +10 4 £435 -13.04% 13
East Midlands +9 2 - - 9
West Midlands +8 2 £425 -10.53% 19
North East - 1 - - 6
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 9 (9.57%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) CICS
2 2 (2.13%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Finacle
1 3 (3.19%) Kondor
2 2 (2.13%) Murex MxG2000
2 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.06%) Endur
3 1 (1.06%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.06%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.06%) SAP GTS
3 1 (1.06%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.06%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.21%) Azure
2 18 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (6.38%) AWS
3 6 (6.38%) Power Automate
3 6 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (5.32%) PowerApps
4 5 (5.32%) Serverless
5 4 (4.26%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.19%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.19%) AWS CloudTrail
6 3 (3.19%) Datadog
6 3 (3.19%) GitHub
6 3 (3.19%) SaaS
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) LAN
1 2 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.06%) Modbus
2 1 (1.06%) SSH
2 1 (1.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.45%) MS Access
2 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.19%) Hadoop
2 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.13%) DB2
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.06%) Big Data
4 1 (1.06%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.06%) Impala
4 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.06%) Power BI
4 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (26.60%) JIRA
2 13 (13.83%) Jenkins
3 11 (11.70%) Selenium
4 8 (8.51%) Postman
5 7 (7.45%) JMeter
5 7 (7.45%) REST Assured
6 6 (6.38%) Git
6 6 (6.38%) QARun
6 6 (6.38%) WinRunner
7 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.26%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.19%) GitLab
8 3 (3.19%) JUnit
8 3 (3.19%) Maven
8 3 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (3.19%) TestNG
8 3 (3.19%) Zephyr
9 2 (2.13%) Appium
9 2 (2.13%) Gatling
9 2 (2.13%) SOAtest
General
1 42 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 36 (38.30%) Finance
3 20 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (19.15%) Banking
5 10 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.38%) Marketing
7 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.32%) Telecoms
8 4 (4.26%) Electronics
8 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.13%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.13%) Back Office
10 2 (2.13%) General Ledger
10 2 (2.13%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.06%) Front Office
11 1 (1.06%) Legal
11 1 (1.06%) Local Government
11 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (34.04%) Analyst
2 20 (21.28%) Test Analyst
2 20 (21.28%) Test Manager
3 18 (19.15%) Lead
4 16 (17.02%) Senior
5 14 (14.89%) Test Leader
6 13 (13.83%) Senior Analyst
7 9 (9.57%) Business Analyst
7 9 (9.57%) Senior Test Analyst
8 7 (7.45%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Tester
9 5 (5.32%) Finance Business Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Financial Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Microsoft 365 Manager
10 4 (4.26%) Senior Business Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Senior UAT Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) Transformation Manager
10 4 (4.26%) UAT Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) UAT Test Analyst
11 3 (3.19%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) Web Services
2 7 (7.45%) Middleware
3 4 (4.26%) Playwright
4 3 (3.19%) JSON
4 3 (3.19%) XML
5 2 (2.13%) J2EE
5 2 (2.13%) Kafka
6 1 (1.06%) .NET
6 1 (1.06%) ADO
6 1 (1.06%) boto
6 1 (1.06%) Chai
6 1 (1.06%) Flutter
6 1 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.06%) REST
6 1 (1.06%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.06%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.32%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.32%) Low-Code
3 3 (3.19%) FPGA
3 3 (3.19%) Verilog
3 3 (3.19%) VHDL
4 2 (2.13%) Derivative
4 2 (2.13%) EPoS
4 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.13%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.13%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (2.13%) Online Banking
4 2 (2.13%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (2.13%) SCADA
4 2 (2.13%) VSAM
5 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.96%) Windows
2 9 (9.57%) Unix
3 2 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (48.94%) Agile
1 46 (48.94%) Test Automation
2 35 (37.23%) User Acceptance Testing
3 34 (36.17%) Test Strategy
4 27 (28.72%) DevOps
5 22 (23.40%) Integration Testing
6 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (22.34%) System Integration Testing
7 19 (20.21%) Defect Management
7 19 (20.21%) Migration
8 17 (18.09%) Test Management
9 16 (17.02%) Software Testing
9 16 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (17.02%) Validation
10 15 (15.96%) Manual Testing
10 15 (15.96%) Test Scripting
11 14 (14.89%) CI/CD
11 14 (14.89%) Regression Testing
12 13 (13.83%) Scenario Testing
12 13 (13.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (15.96%) SQL
2 10 (10.64%) Java
3 8 (8.51%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.32%) Python
5 3 (3.19%) C#
5 3 (3.19%) CodeQL
5 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.19%) SystemVerilog
6 2 (2.13%) COBOL
6 2 (2.13%) JCL
6 2 (2.13%) REXX
6 2 (2.13%) RPG
6 2 (2.13%) SOQL
6 2 (2.13%) VB
7 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.96%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) ISTQB
4 6 (6.38%) Degree
5 4 (4.26%) CBAP
5 4 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.19%) PhD
7 2 (2.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (2.13%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.06%) IIBA
8 1 (1.06%) ISEB
8 1 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (36.17%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.26%) WCAG
3 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.06%) NCSC
3 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (4.26%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) Firmware
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (10.64%) HP ALM
2 4 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.64%) HP
2 10 (10.64%) SAP
3 7 (7.45%) Citrix
4 6 (6.38%) Murex
5 5 (5.32%) Oracle
6 3 (3.19%) Cisco
6 3 (3.19%) FIS
6 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.13%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.13%) Informatica
7 2 (2.13%) Parasoft
7 2 (2.13%) Workday
8 1 (1.06%) Avaloq
8 1 (1.06%) Calypso
8 1 (1.06%) Charles River
8 1 (1.06%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.06%) OpenLink
8 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow