Test Planning Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Test Planning
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Test Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 2.72% 3.03% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 3.37% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £273 -
25th Percentile £363 £288 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £388 £413 -
90th Percentile - £458 -
Wiltshire median daily rate £413 £325 £570
% change year-on-year +26.92% -42.98% +34.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 89 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 82.61% 89.90% 78.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 60 65
10th Percentile £305 £233 £200
25th Percentile £375 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% -11.43%
75th Percentile £603 £578 £550
90th Percentile £795 £621 £600
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £563 £545
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.21% -5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £25.15 £25.08 £14.54
% change year-on-year +0.30% +72.46% -78.93%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Swindon

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
1 4 (80.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) EPoS Manager
2 1 (20.00%) EPoS Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Salesforce