Test Planning Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Test Planning
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Test Planning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 49 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 2 8 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.56% 1.48% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 1.72% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
South East median daily rate £375 £400 £408
% change year-on-year -6.25% -1.84% -27.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 335 464 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.37% 85.61% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 336 546
10th Percentile £204 £203 £201
25th Percentile £250 £275 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £550 £556 £647
90th Percentile £600 £650 £744
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 34 29
10th Percentile £16.71 £12.17 £21.89
25th Percentile £25.15 £31.88 £42.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £71.90
90th Percentile - £76.86 £77.67
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in Surrey

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Test Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Leatherhead +3 1 - - 1
Staines - 1 £375 -
Test Planning
South East

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (50.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) OCA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle