Test Planning Contracts in Scotland

Test Planning
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 115 161
Rank change year-on-year -2 +46 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.17% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £496 £385
25th Percentile - £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £526 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.66% +16.78% -
75th Percentile - £551 £488
90th Percentile - £555 £495
UK median daily rate £423 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -11.98% -4.00% -2.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,607 1,775 2,526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 92.04% 87.35% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,104 1,741
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 70 56
10th Percentile £16.58 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £13.73 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% +8.80% -51.04%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £49.24
90th Percentile £28.22 £60.75 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -10.31% +61.35%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in Scotland

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in Scotland

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in Scotland

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Edinburgh +9 3 £550 +4.66% 4
Test Planning
UK

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 2 (66.67%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Test Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Test Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Test Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes