Test Planning Contracts in the West Midlands

Test Planning
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 106 121
Rank change year-on-year +5 +15 +48
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 5 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.34% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.42% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £345 £378 £483
25th Percentile £375 £403 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £450 £522 £544
90th Percentile £465 £569 £548
England median daily rate £413 £488 £509
% change year-on-year -15.47% -4.03% -0.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,318 1,663 1,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 81.04% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 829 1,106 1,335
10th Percentile £202 £263 £263
25th Percentile £370 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +2.02%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £618
90th Percentile £664 £734 £705
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 117 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.24 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.25 £15.38
Median hourly rate £24.28 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -10.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £34.16 £38.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.25 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.34
% change year-on-year -34.02% +2.09% +45.40%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Test Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the West Midlands

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the West Midlands

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the West Midlands

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Warwickshire - 4 £425 - 3
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Automotive
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) OAT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) SCADA
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) User Stories
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Chemistry
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) HP