Test Planning Contract Job Trends in Kent

Test Planning
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Test Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 2.90% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -24.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 114 127 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 82.61% 85.23% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 58 128
10th Percentile £178 £155 £205
25th Percentile £329 £219 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +0.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £570 £617 £564
90th Percentile £638 £688 £646
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 12
10th Percentile £16.36 £14.80 £20.08
25th Percentile £18.41 £26.87 £33.50
Median hourly rate £20.40 £53.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -61.51% -2.30% +46.11%
75th Percentile £28.61 £56.75 £58.44
90th Percentile £39.00 £68.33 £77.23
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £51.00 £51.96
% change year-on-year -56.86% -1.85% +38.56%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Kent

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Test Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Malling - 3 £625 -
Folkestone - 1 - -
Test Planning
South East

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Broadband
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Change and Release Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Change Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Release Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) CRM
2 3 (75.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Release Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce