Test Planning Contract Job Trends in South London

Test Planning
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Test Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 34 39
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.65% 1.02% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.16% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £396 £380
Median % change year-on-year +51.42% +4.28% -45.13%
London median daily rate £488 £390 £563
% change year-on-year +25.00% -30.67% -6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 270 173 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.10% 88.27% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 110 161
10th Percentile £413 £359 £188
25th Percentile £463 £463 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £648 £759 £638
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 19
10th Percentile £54.42 - £16.28
25th Percentile £54.55 - £19.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £15.84 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +286.47% -32.60% -49.29%
75th Percentile £66.50 £56.20 £66.57
90th Percentile £67.70 £78.40 £83.75
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in South London

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
Croydon -15 2 £600 +57.89% 2
Test Planning
London

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) WireMock
1 1 (50.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus