Test Planning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 299 334 385
Rank change year-on-year +35 +51 +27
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 40 65 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.37% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 43 40
10th Percentile £321 £351 £347
25th Percentile £348 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £371 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year -17.56% -8.16% +13.62%
75th Percentile £447 £534 £588
90th Percentile £495 £591 £625
UK median daily rate £400 £515 £463
% change year-on-year -22.29% +11.30% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £38.70 £69.75 -
25th Percentile £53.25 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £87.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £83.88 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £84.70 £89.50 -
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £87.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +25.00% +129.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Planning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Planning in the UK excluding London

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +23 19 £360 -29.20% 9
North West +21 17 £358 -37.74% 5
South East +45 8 £375 -25.00% 21
South West +38 5 £375 -4.46% 6
East of England +20 3 £600 +60.00% 16
Midlands +11 3 - - 4
East Midlands +12 2 - - 1
Scotland +10 1 - - 6
West Midlands +9 1 - - 3
Yorkshire 0 1 £450 -6.93% 4
North East -2 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Test Planning
UK

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) CICS
2 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) CANalyzer
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Kondor
2 3 (7.50%) Finacle
3 1 (2.50%) SAP ERP
3 1 (2.50%) Teamcenter
3 1 (2.50%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Azure
1 9 (22.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (7.50%) AWS
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
4 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.00%) DB2
2 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (5.00%) MS Access
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) JIRA
2 5 (12.50%) Selenium
3 3 (7.50%) SpecFlow
4 2 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.00%) QARun
4 2 (5.00%) SOAtest
4 2 (5.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (5.00%) WinRunner
4 2 (5.00%) Zephyr
5 1 (2.50%) Appium
5 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.50%) JMeter
5 1 (2.50%) Mocha
5 1 (2.50%) Postman
5 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Banking
3 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) General Ledger
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Retail Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.50%) Automotive
5 1 (2.50%) Aviation
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Electronics
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Lead
2 11 (27.50%) Test Leader
3 10 (25.00%) Test Manager
4 9 (22.50%) Analyst
5 8 (20.00%) Test Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Test Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Migration Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Senior
8 2 (5.00%) Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Manual Tester
8 2 (5.00%) QA Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Test Architect
8 2 (5.00%) Tester
9 1 (2.50%) Business Analyst
9 1 (2.50%) Lead Test Analyst
9 1 (2.50%) Programme Manager
9 1 (2.50%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.50%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) Web Services
2 3 (7.50%) JSON
2 3 (7.50%) XML
3 2 (5.00%) J2EE
3 2 (5.00%) Middleware
4 1 (2.50%) .NET
4 1 (2.50%) boto
4 1 (2.50%) Chai
4 1 (2.50%) Kafka
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.50%) Playwright
4 1 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.50%) SAP PI
4 1 (2.50%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.00%) EPoS
2 2 (5.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (5.00%) VSAM
3 1 (2.50%) Infotainment
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Unix
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Agile
2 16 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 11 (27.50%) Migration
3 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.00%) DevOps
5 9 (22.50%) Validation
6 8 (20.00%) Integration Testing
6 8 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 8 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
7 7 (17.50%) Planning and Forecasting
7 7 (17.50%) Scenario Testing
7 7 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (17.50%) Waterfall
8 6 (15.00%) Defect Management
8 6 (15.00%) Risk Management
9 5 (12.50%) Scrum
9 5 (12.50%) SDLC
9 5 (12.50%) Test Management
9 5 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) C#
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.00%) COBOL
3 2 (5.00%) Java
3 2 (5.00%) JCL
3 2 (5.00%) REXX
3 2 (5.00%) VB
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 2 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.50%) ISEB
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.50%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) FIS
3 3 (7.50%) Murex
4 2 (5.00%) Ab Initio
4 2 (5.00%) Citrix
4 2 (5.00%) HP
4 2 (5.00%) Informatica
4 2 (5.00%) Parasoft
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow