Test Planning Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Test Planning
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Test Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
North East median daily rate £350 - £500

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 256 191 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 89.82% 92.27% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 87 105
10th Percentile £170 £312 £201
25th Percentile £350 £360 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £580
90th Percentile £600 £650 £716
North East median daily rate £450 £457 £450
% change year-on-year -1.53% +1.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 7
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.23 £15.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £17.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -10.26% +39.29%
75th Percentile £51.50 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £32.70
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £32.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% -6.97% +82.86%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Test Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 8 November 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £350 - 2
Test Planning
North East

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript