Test Planning Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Test Planning
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Test Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 101 101
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +40
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 11 3 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.65% 0.20% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.24% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile £386 - £466
25th Percentile £415 - £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £517 £509
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £439 £559 £517
90th Percentile £480 £583 £525
England median daily rate £447 £455 £517
% change year-on-year -1.76% -11.99% -6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,519 1,241 1,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 90.26% 84.54% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 989 726 1,159
10th Percentile £248 £294 £306
25th Percentile £375 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £651 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 39 30
10th Percentile £17.48 - £15.11
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.06
Median hourly rate £25.04 £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +31.78% -10.84% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £26.02
90th Percentile £78.38 £50.25 £44.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Test Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in Yorkshire

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
West Yorkshire -5 11 £435 -15.91% 2
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Ethernet
1 3 (27.27%) SD-WAN
1 3 (27.27%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
1 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
1 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
1 3 (27.27%) JMeter
1 3 (27.27%) JUnit
1 3 (27.27%) Maven
1 3 (27.27%) Postman
1 3 (27.27%) REST Assured
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
1 3 (27.27%) TestNG
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Test Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 5 (45.45%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Non-Functional Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Playwright
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) React
2 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (27.27%) API Testing
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
5 3 (27.27%) TDD
5 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
6 2 (18.18%) BDD
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Open Source
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Story Points
7 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Bash
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
1 4 (36.36%) WCAG
2 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
1 3 (27.27%) Juniper
1 3 (27.27%) Meraki
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 3 (27.27%) Nokia