Test Planning Contracts in the South East

Test Planning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 189 197
Rank change year-on-year +45 +8 +33
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 8 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.16% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.19% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 13
10th Percentile £325 £448 £402
25th Percentile £338 £481 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £413 £538 £538
90th Percentile £450 £561 £583
England median daily rate £410 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -20.74% +3.40% +1.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,758 4,707 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.81% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,740 3,571
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 435 221
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £16.05 £18.26 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.79
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the South East

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the South East

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in the South East

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the South East

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Thames Valley +38 6 £375 -23.08% 1
Buckinghamshire +20 4 £350 -30.00%
Berkshire +25 1 £425 -10.53% 1
Hampshire +25 1 - - 11
Surrey +14 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £475 -
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MS Access
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) QARun
1 2 (25.00%) WinRunner
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JMeter
2 1 (12.50%) Mocha
2 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Network Manager
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Test Validation Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Voice Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) EPoS
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Integration Testing
1 6 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (75.00%) Validation
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Software Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Logistics
3 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (37.50%) SDLC
4 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Case Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) VB
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco