Test Planning Contracts in the North West

Test Planning
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 151 168
Rank change year-on-year +22 +17 -29
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 10 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.24% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £331 £445 £265
25th Percentile £394 £475 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +25.00% +16.36%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £494
90th Percentile - £570 £510
England median daily rate £515 £500 £493
% change year-on-year +2.95% +1.42% +23.25%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £87.50 £70.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +169.23% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,404 2,934 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.35% 91.06% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,552 2,091 2,592
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 151 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.27 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.38 £43.75
90th Percentile £55.75 £65.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the North West

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in the North West

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Manchester +17 8 £575 +15.00% 1
Cheshire - 1 £325 - 1
Merseyside - 1 £600 - 1
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (10.00%) Commercetools
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) GoCD
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (10.00%) TestCafe
2 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (30.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aviation
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Test Management
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) COREP
2 1 (10.00%) FINREP
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) HP
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft