Test Planning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Planning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 286 419
Rank change year-on-year +12 +133 +84
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 30 59 58
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.38% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.44% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 41 37
10th Percentile £350 £413 £385
25th Percentile £362 £467 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £517 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.50% +14.89% -8.16%
75th Percentile £440 £613 £469
90th Percentile £487 £750 £600
UK median daily rate £400 £513 £463
% change year-on-year -21.95% +10.81% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £61.88 -
25th Percentile £81.75 £66.56 -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £75.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% +7.14% +100.00%
75th Percentile £85.25 £82.81 -
90th Percentile - £87.13 -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Test Planning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Planning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Planning.

Test Planning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Planning over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Test Planning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Planning.

Test Planning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Murex MxG2000
1 1 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Azure
1 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (6.67%) GitHub
2 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) MS Access
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (13.33%) QARun
2 4 (13.33%) WinRunner
3 3 (10.00%) Postman
4 2 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
4 2 (6.67%) TestRail
5 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Back Office
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Local Government
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Test Manager
3 7 (23.33%) Senior
3 7 (23.33%) Senior Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) Senior Test Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Lead
5 4 (13.33%) Senior UAT Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Test Leader
5 4 (13.33%) Tester
5 4 (13.33%) UAT Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) UAT Test Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.67%) Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Migration Manager
6 2 (6.67%) NetApp Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Storage Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.33%) Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) Middleware
1 6 (20.00%) Web Services
2 2 (6.67%) Playwright
2 2 (6.67%) REST
2 2 (6.67%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) EPoS
2 1 (3.33%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Unix
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Test Automation
2 14 (46.67%) Agile
2 14 (46.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (43.33%) System Integration Testing
4 12 (40.00%) Test Strategy
5 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (33.33%) DevOps
6 10 (33.33%) Integration Testing
6 10 (33.33%) Test Management
7 8 (26.67%) Manual Testing
8 7 (23.33%) Defect Management
8 7 (23.33%) Software Testing
8 7 (23.33%) Waterfall
9 6 (20.00%) Logistics
9 6 (20.00%) Microservices
9 6 (20.00%) Migration
9 6 (20.00%) Risk Management
9 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (16.67%) SDLC
10 5 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (46.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Citrix
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) HP
3 2 (6.67%) Murex
3 2 (6.67%) NetApp
4 1 (3.33%) Avaloq
4 1 (3.33%) Calypso
4 1 (3.33%) Salesforce