Test Planning Job Trends in England

Test Planning
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Test Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 626 593
Rank change year-on-year +82 -33 +142
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 73 53 87
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.12% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 47 36 57
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £53,402 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £72,325 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -

All Process & 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 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in England

Test Planning
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Test Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 2026. 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 +42 19 £75,900 +12.44% 21
London +46 17 £62,500 -26.47% 9
Midlands +29 11 £65,000 +78.09% 8
South West +22 11 £62,500 - 9
East Midlands -1 7 £65,000 +100.00% 4
North of England +4 5 £65,000 +73.33% 6
West Midlands +22 4 £45,000 +21.01% 4
Yorkshire -9 4 £66,700 - 2
East of England +27 3 £65,000 +23.81% 10
North West +13 1 £65,000 +73.33% 4
Test Planning
UK

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.48%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.37%) CATIA
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (9.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.07%) Azure
2 8 (10.96%) AWS
3 4 (5.48%) GCP
4 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.11%) BrowserStack
5 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.74%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.74%) SaaS
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.37%) IaaS
6 1 (1.37%) PaaS
6 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.37%) Serverless
6 1 (1.37%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) Network Security
2 2 (2.74%) Wireless
3 1 (1.37%) Firewall
3 1 (1.37%) LAN
3 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.37%) WAN
3 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.74%) MS Access
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.37%) Big Data
3 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (30.14%) Rational DOORS
2 11 (15.07%) JIRA
3 10 (13.70%) Cypress.io
4 8 (10.96%) Selenium
5 4 (5.48%) Postman
6 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.11%) JMeter
7 2 (2.74%) Gatling
7 2 (2.74%) Git
7 2 (2.74%) GitLab
7 2 (2.74%) JUnit
7 2 (2.74%) LoadRunner
7 2 (2.74%) Ranorex
7 2 (2.74%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.74%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.37%) Bugzilla
8 1 (1.37%) HP UFT
8 1 (1.37%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (1.37%) TestRail
General
1 22 (30.14%) Electronics
2 20 (27.40%) Finance
3 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.70%) Manufacturing
5 8 (10.96%) Marketing
6 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Banking
8 2 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.74%) Law
8 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Retail
9 1 (1.37%) Automotive
9 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (32.88%) Principal Engineer
2 22 (30.14%) Systems Engineer
3 21 (28.77%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 16 (21.92%) Lead
5 9 (12.33%) Test Leader
6 8 (10.96%) QA Engineer
6 8 (10.96%) Senior
7 7 (9.59%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) QA Automation Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) JavaScript Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Test Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Analyst
9 4 (5.48%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Test Manager
9 4 (5.48%) Tester
10 3 (4.11%) Business Analyst
10 3 (4.11%) Developer
10 3 (4.11%) Senior Test Engineer
10 3 (4.11%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.11%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.48%) Playwright
2 3 (4.11%) REST
3 2 (2.74%) .NET
3 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.74%) ADO
3 2 (2.74%) Blazor
3 2 (2.74%) ODBC
3 2 (2.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.74%) Spring
3 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.74%) WPF
3 2 (2.74%) XML
3 2 (2.74%) XSL
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (1.37%) JSON
4 1 (1.37%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.77%) Algorithms
2 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.74%) CMDB
4 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.74%) Shadow IT
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.37%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) IoT
5 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.48%) Windows
2 1 (1.37%) Android
2 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.37%) Linux
2 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.73%) Test Automation
2 23 (31.51%) Agile
2 23 (31.51%) Test Strategy
3 22 (30.14%) Systems Engineering
4 21 (28.77%) Signal Processing
4 21 (28.77%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (20.55%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (19.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (17.81%) Roadmaps
8 12 (16.44%) Software Testing
9 11 (15.07%) CI/CD
9 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (13.70%) Test Management
10 10 (13.70%) Validation
11 9 (12.33%) Integration Testing
11 9 (12.33%) Manual Testing
11 9 (12.33%) System Integration Testing
11 9 (12.33%) Waterfall
12 8 (10.96%) API Testing
12 8 (10.96%) Defect Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
2 11 (15.07%) SQL
3 9 (12.33%) Java
4 7 (9.59%) C#
5 4 (5.48%) Python
5 4 (5.48%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.74%) Delphi
6 2 (2.74%) XAML
7 1 (1.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 22 (30.14%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (12.33%) ISTQB
3 6 (8.22%) Degree
3 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) OSCP
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CCIE
6 1 (1.37%) CHECK Team Member
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.37%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.37%) GAWN
6 1 (1.37%) GCIH
6 1 (1.37%) GIAC
6 1 (1.37%) GPEN
6 1 (1.37%) GREM
6 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (34.25%) QA
2 22 (30.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.74%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.37%) GRC
6 1 (1.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Grafana
1 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.37%) Nessus
1 1 (1.37%) Nmap
1 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (30.14%) IBM
2 9 (12.33%) SAP
3 6 (8.22%) Oracle
4 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.74%) Google
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.74%) Pega
6 1 (1.37%) Ariba
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco
6 1 (1.37%) Qualys
6 1 (1.37%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) YouTube