Test Planning Contracts in Manchester

Test Planning
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 95 108 131
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 -35
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 8 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.52% 0.47% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.51% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 6
10th Percentile £403 £455 £256
25th Percentile £481 £475 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £508 £413
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% +23.03% +32.00%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £497
90th Percentile - £625 £513
North West median daily rate £575 £508 £400
% change year-on-year +13.30% +26.88% +16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,337 1,748 2,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.04% 92.00% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1,279 1,802
10th Percentile £313 £315 £263
25th Percentile £406 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.94%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £575
90th Percentile £694 £656 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 63 50
10th Percentile £12.42 £15.09 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.89% +129.51% -4.69%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.27 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £69.20 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +13.51%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in Manchester

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in Manchester

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in Manchester

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) GoCD
2 1 (12.50%) TestCafe
General
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Aviation
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Test Management
2 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Business Case
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Observability
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Change
3 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) COREP
2 1 (12.50%) FINREP
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft