Test Planning Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Test Planning
West Midlands > Warwickshire

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 45 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 1.13% 0.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £360 - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £440 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 451 305 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 85.26% 87.14% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 177 219
10th Percentile £305 £413 £220
25th Percentile £413 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £638
90th Percentile £725 £670 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 6
10th Percentile £16.12 - £17.13
25th Percentile £18.44 £14.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.28 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +13.26% +98.47%
75th Percentile £39.25 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 - £36.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

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

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

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

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Warwick - 6 £400 -
Test Planning
West Midlands

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Maximo
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Test Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Maximo Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Management
2 5 (83.33%) Test Scripting
3 4 (66.67%) Defect Management
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) Data Centre Operations
4 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (50.00%) Resource Management
4 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (50.00%) Service Management
4 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Use Case
4 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
5 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
5 2 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (33.33%) Validation
6 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle