Test Planning Jobs in England

Test Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Test Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Planning over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 442 747 724
Rank change year-on-year +305 -23 +84
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 264 117 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.54% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 208 57 94
10th Percentile - £36,250 £41,475
25th Percentile - £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -8.70% -
75th Percentile - £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - £90,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £70,600 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +28.36% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test Planning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,849 78,971 78,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.16% 82.62% 95.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23,109 56,258 48,147
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,383 £34,308
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.69% +1.50%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in England.

Salary trend for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in England over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +248 221 £70,600 +12.96% 44
London +87 28 £85,000 +3.66% 47
Midlands +67 9 £45,000 -10.00% 11
West Midlands +46 7 £45,000 -10.00% 9
East of England +43 4 £57,000 +76.96% 7
North of England +68 2 £51,498 -0.97% 9
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +59 1 - - 1
North West +23 1 £51,498 -0.97% 6
Test Planning
UK

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) CATIA
2 1 (0.38%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (6.06%) Azure
2 11 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 9 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.65%) AWS
5 5 (1.89%) GCP
6 4 (1.52%) GitHub
7 3 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.14%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.14%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) HTTP
2 1 (0.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.03%) Power BI
2 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (1.89%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.52%) MS Access
4 3 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.38%) Big Data
6 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 217 (82.20%) Rational DOORS
2 12 (4.55%) Selenium
3 11 (4.17%) JIRA
4 9 (3.41%) JMeter
5 8 (3.03%) Postman
6 6 (2.27%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.27%) SoapUI
7 5 (1.89%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.89%) TestRail
8 4 (1.52%) CppUnit
8 4 (1.52%) JUnit
8 4 (1.52%) LoadRunner
9 3 (1.14%) Appium
9 3 (1.14%) Mocha
9 3 (1.14%) MSTest
9 3 (1.14%) NUnit
9 3 (1.14%) SpecFlow
9 3 (1.14%) XCUITest
10 2 (0.76%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.76%) Xcode
General
1 212 (80.30%) Electronics
2 13 (4.92%) Social Skills
3 11 (4.17%) Law
4 10 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.03%) Aerospace
6 7 (2.65%) Aeronautics
6 7 (2.65%) Automotive
6 7 (2.65%) Finance
6 7 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.89%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.52%) Legal
9 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Banking
10 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 213 (80.68%) Systems Engineer
2 212 (80.30%) Principal Engineer
2 212 (80.30%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 33 (12.50%) Radar Engineer
4 8 (3.03%) Lead
5 7 (2.65%) Performance Engineer
5 7 (2.65%) Senior
5 7 (2.65%) Tester
6 6 (2.27%) Analyst
6 6 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (1.89%) Test Leader
7 5 (1.89%) Verification Engineer
8 4 (1.52%) Developer
8 4 (1.52%) Embedded Engineer
8 4 (1.52%) QA Leader
8 4 (1.52%) Software Engineer
8 4 (1.52%) Software Verification Engineer
8 4 (1.52%) Test Engineer
8 4 (1.52%) Test Manager
9 3 (1.14%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.27%) REST
1 6 (2.27%) Web Services
2 4 (1.52%) .NET
2 4 (1.52%) Blazor
2 4 (1.52%) CSS
2 4 (1.52%) HTML
2 4 (1.52%) ODBC
2 4 (1.52%) WPF
3 3 (1.14%) .NET Framework
3 3 (1.14%) ADO
3 3 (1.14%) Jest
3 3 (1.14%) JSON
3 3 (1.14%) Playwright
3 3 (1.14%) Swagger
3 3 (1.14%) WebdriverIO
4 2 (0.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.76%) Node.js
4 2 (0.76%) RESTful
5 1 (0.38%) OAuth
5 1 (0.38%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 212 (80.30%) Algorithms
2 5 (1.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (0.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.38%) ASIC
5 1 (0.38%) ASIC Verification
5 1 (0.38%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.38%) NHS
5 1 (0.38%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.38%) NVMe
5 1 (0.38%) PCIe
5 1 (0.38%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.38%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (80.68%) Systems Engineering
2 212 (80.30%) Signal Processing
2 212 (80.30%) Technical Leadership
3 29 (10.98%) Test Automation
4 27 (10.23%) Agile
5 20 (7.58%) Software Testing
6 18 (6.82%) Test Strategy
7 15 (5.68%) Test Scripting
8 14 (5.30%) CI/CD
8 14 (5.30%) Defect Management
8 14 (5.30%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (4.55%) Manual Testing
10 11 (4.17%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (3.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (3.79%) Performance Testing
11 10 (3.79%) Scrum
12 9 (3.41%) DevOps
12 9 (3.41%) Regression Testing
12 9 (3.41%) Security Testing
12 9 (3.41%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (6.82%) SQL
2 13 (4.92%) JavaScript
3 8 (3.03%) C#
4 6 (2.27%) Python
5 4 (1.52%) C
5 4 (1.52%) Delphi
5 4 (1.52%) Java
5 4 (1.52%) XAML
6 3 (1.14%) Swift
6 3 (1.14%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.76%) C++
8 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.38%) Perl
8 1 (0.38%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.38%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 215 (81.44%) BPSS Clearance
2 15 (5.68%) Degree
3 14 (5.30%) ISTQB
4 9 (3.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 8 (3.03%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.65%) PhD
7 4 (1.52%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.14%) CISSP
8 3 (1.14%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (80.68%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 13 (4.92%) QA
3 5 (1.89%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.38%) MiFID
4 1 (0.38%) NCSC
4 1 (0.38%) PSD2
4 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.52%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) Nessus
Vendors
1 213 (80.68%) IBM
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.14%) Workday
3 2 (0.76%) SAP
3 2 (0.76%) Splunk
4 1 (0.38%) Cadence
4 1 (0.38%) FIS
4 1 (0.38%) Google
4 1 (0.38%) MathWorks
4 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.38%) Siemens
4 1 (0.38%) Sparx
4 1 (0.38%) Synopsys
4 1 (0.38%) VMware