Test Planning Contracts in the North of England

Test Planning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 165 202
Rank change year-on-year +18 +37 +19
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 19 20 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.42% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.49% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 12
10th Percentile - £368 £430
25th Percentile £348 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -0.74% +15.14%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £625
90th Percentile £475 £600 -
England median daily rate £410 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -20.40% +2.95% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 £58.75 -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% - -
75th Percentile £85.25 £61.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £81.25 £87.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +25.00% +169.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the North of England

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the North of England

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in the North of England

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the North of England

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North West +24 17 £358 -37.74% 20
Yorkshire +1 1 £450 -6.93% 17
North East -1 1 - - 5
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (10.53%) CICS
1 2 (10.53%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Kondor
2 3 (15.79%) Finacle
3 1 (5.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (10.53%) Serverless
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.53%) DB2
1 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.26%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Selenium
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) SOAtest
4 1 (5.26%) Appium
4 1 (5.26%) Postman
4 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.26%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (42.11%) Banking
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) General Ledger
3 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Aviation
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Lead
1 7 (36.84%) Test Leader
1 7 (36.84%) Test Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Migration Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Test Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Manual Tester
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Programme Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) J2EE
1 2 (10.53%) JSON
1 2 (10.53%) Web Services
1 2 (10.53%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) boto
2 1 (5.26%) Chai
2 1 (5.26%) Kafka
2 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (10.53%) VSAM
3 1 (5.26%) NHS
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Migration
1 9 (47.37%) Test Strategy
2 6 (31.58%) Planning and Forecasting
2 6 (31.58%) Risk Management
2 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) API Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.79%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Contingency Planning
6 2 (10.53%) DevOps
6 2 (10.53%) ETL
6 2 (10.53%) Impact Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Performance Management
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (10.53%) SDLC
6 2 (10.53%) Test Assurance
6 2 (10.53%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) COBOL
1 2 (10.53%) Java
1 2 (10.53%) JCL
1 2 (10.53%) REXX
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) ISTQB
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) HP ALM
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) FIS
2 3 (15.79%) Murex
3 2 (10.53%) Ab Initio
3 2 (10.53%) Informatica
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Parasoft
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.26%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft