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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 323 382
Rank change year-on-year +24 +59 +22
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 42 64 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.37% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 41 33
10th Percentile £312 £350 £390
25th Percentile £348 £363 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -10.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £447 £531 £600
90th Percentile £492 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £468
% change year-on-year -15.00% +6.95% -6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 £72.00
25th Percentile £77.50 £79.38 £75.00
Median hourly rate £83.50 £87.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +9.38% +274.01%
75th Percentile £88.88 £89.06 £85.00
90th Percentile £91.05 £89.63 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £83.00 £87.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -5.14% +9.38% +207.69%

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 11,627 17,124 20,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.71% 83.83% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,257 10,216 14,056
10th Percentile £231 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,098 1,246
10th Percentile £14.01 £12.38 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.05 £36.13
% change year-on-year -23.71% -0.22% +40.67%

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 25 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
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 25 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 +16 20 £423 -18.28% 35
North West +11 15 £396 -34.00% 17
South East +48 8 £375 -25.00% 50
South West +33 4 £325 -17.20% 27
East of England +19 4 £428 +14.00% 26
Yorkshire +10 4 £435 -13.04% 12
Midlands +3 4 £425 -5.56% 30
West Midlands +10 2 £425 -10.53% 19
East Midlands +2 2 - - 9
Scotland +1 1 - - 28
North East - 1 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7
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 (7.14%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) CICS
2 2 (4.76%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Finacle
1 3 (7.14%) Kondor
2 1 (2.38%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.38%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.38%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
1 8 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.76%) AWS
2 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (4.76%) Serverless
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Modbus
1 1 (2.38%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) MS Access
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.76%) DB2
2 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (19.05%) Selenium
2 7 (16.67%) JIRA
3 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 4 (9.52%) Postman
5 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.14%) GitLab
5 3 (7.14%) JMeter
5 3 (7.14%) JUnit
5 3 (7.14%) Maven
5 3 (7.14%) REST Assured
5 3 (7.14%) TestNG
6 2 (4.76%) QARun
6 2 (4.76%) SOAtest
6 2 (4.76%) SpecFlow
6 2 (4.76%) WebDriver
6 2 (4.76%) WinRunner
6 2 (4.76%) Zephyr
7 1 (2.38%) Appium
7 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Finance
3 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Banking
5 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.76%) General Ledger
6 2 (4.76%) Retail Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.38%) Aviation
7 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Electronics
7 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Test Manager
2 10 (23.81%) Analyst
3 9 (21.43%) Lead
4 8 (19.05%) Test Analyst
4 8 (19.05%) Test Leader
5 6 (14.29%) Test Engineer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior
7 3 (7.14%) Migration Manager
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Manual Tester
8 2 (4.76%) SAP Manager
8 2 (4.76%) SAP Test Manager
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Test Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Tester
9 1 (2.38%) Firmware Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Test Automation Manager
9 1 (2.38%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Web Services
2 3 (7.14%) JSON
2 3 (7.14%) Middleware
2 3 (7.14%) Playwright
2 3 (7.14%) XML
3 2 (4.76%) J2EE
4 1 (2.38%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) boto
4 1 (2.38%) Chai
4 1 (2.38%) Kafka
4 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.38%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.76%) EPoS
2 2 (4.76%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.76%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.76%) SCADA
2 2 (4.76%) VSAM
3 1 (2.38%) FPGA
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.38%) NHS
3 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.38%) Verilog
3 1 (2.38%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Unix
1 5 (11.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) Agile
2 20 (47.62%) Test Automation
3 18 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 11 (26.19%) Migration
5 10 (23.81%) Integration Testing
5 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (21.43%) DevOps
6 9 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
6 9 (21.43%) Test Scripting
7 8 (19.05%) Software Testing
7 8 (19.05%) Validation
8 7 (16.67%) API Testing
8 7 (16.67%) Defect Management
8 7 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (16.67%) Waterfall
9 6 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
9 6 (14.29%) Risk Management
9 6 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) Java
1 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
1 5 (11.90%) SQL
2 3 (7.14%) C#
3 2 (4.76%) COBOL
3 2 (4.76%) JCL
3 2 (4.76%) REXX
3 2 (4.76%) VB
4 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.38%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 2 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) ISEB
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (38.10%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.38%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) HP
3 3 (7.14%) Citrix
3 3 (7.14%) FIS
3 3 (7.14%) Murex
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Ab Initio
4 2 (4.76%) Informatica
4 2 (4.76%) Parasoft
4 2 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco
5 1 (2.38%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow