Test Planning Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Test Planning
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Test Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 7 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.96% - 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £360 - £437
25th Percentile £376 - £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 - £500
75th Percentile £477 - £517
90th Percentile £521 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £435 - £500

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 524 805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.81% 86.61% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 332 547
10th Percentile £304 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -9.05% -
75th Percentile £573 £574 £613
90th Percentile £645 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £15.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -56.43% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.38 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.18 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.72 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -33.17% +71.05% -11.63%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Leeds

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in Leeds over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in Leeds

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Test Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Functional Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Non-Functional Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Creative Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Story Points
4 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG