Test Planning Contracts in the Midlands

Test Planning
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 161 171
Rank change year-on-year +33 +10 -39
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 11 4 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.41% 0.12% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.14% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 21
10th Percentile £345 - £263
25th Percentile £389 £475 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +33.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £450
90th Percentile £556 - £493
England median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,229 2,952 4,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.10% 88.22% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 2,065 3,205
10th Percentile £235 £240 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £569
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 108 144
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.50 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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

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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
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in the Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in the Midlands

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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

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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 10 May 2024. 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 Midlands +21 7 £475 -5.00% 3
East Midlands - 4 £335 - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Analyst
1 8 (72.73%) Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Manual Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) OAT Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) LDAP
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
1 4 (36.36%) Defect Management
1 4 (36.36%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) API Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (18.18%) Requirements Management
3 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (9.09%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) ProC
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) SAP