Test Planning Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Test Planning
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Test Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +15.29% -10.53% -9.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 595 134 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 88.02% 94.37% 62.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 90 59
10th Percentile £353 £308 £200
25th Percentile £413 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £461 £358
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% +28.84% -33.46%
75th Percentile £520 £537 £501
90th Percentile £599 £549 £519
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £481 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.80% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 8
10th Percentile £20.78 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% +141.36% -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £60.87 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £24.22 £22.50
% change year-on-year +40.34% +7.64% -8.16%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Test Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 22 June 2026. 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
Telford - 1 £490 - 1
Test Planning
West Midlands

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Actian