Test Planning Contracts in the Midlands

Test Planning
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 124 154
Rank change year-on-year +11 +30 +21
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 4 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.20% 0.41% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.50% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £345 -
25th Percentile - £389 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £538 £525
90th Percentile - £556 -
England median daily rate £423 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,760 2,210 2,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.96% 82.13% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,487 2,028
10th Percentile £200 £234 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 169 104
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.15
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.88
Median hourly rate £18.51 £18.00 £21.32
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -15.57% +21.83%
75th Percentile £24.66 £33.25 £32.77
90th Percentile £41.97 £55.00 £54.63
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the Midlands

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the Midlands

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the Midlands

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
East Midlands +10 2 - - 1
West Midlands 0 2 £425 -10.53% 8
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) OAT Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle