Test Planning Contracts in West Yorkshire

Test Planning
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 70 99
Rank change year-on-year +12 +29 +17
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 4 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.72% 0.82% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.94% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £423 £443 -
25th Percentile £428 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% -3.30% -
75th Percentile £443 £517 £525
90th Percentile £447 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -10.03% -3.30% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 513 849 1,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.94% 87.26% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 495 982
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.21% +5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £619
90th Percentile £605 £655 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 35 19
10th Percentile £18.59 £11.91 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £14.46
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.70% -37.35% +9.59%
75th Percentile £34.38 £15.20 £63.75
90th Percentile £100.97 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -40.94%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in West Yorkshire

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in West Yorkshire

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 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
Leeds -2 4 £435 -15.86% 3
Test Planning
Yorkshire

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) JMeter
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
1 3 (75.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) TestNG
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (75.00%) WCAG
2 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker