Test Planning Jobs in Northern Ireland

Test Planning
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.62% - 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% - 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £70,600 £53,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year +31.96% -4.89% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 285 546 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 87.96% 82.48% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 115 277 320
10th Percentile £26,875 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £38,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £62,563
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,315
% change year-on-year - -8.81% +0.53%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in Northern Ireland

Test Planning
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Salary trend for Test Planning in Northern Ireland

Test Planning
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
County Antrim - 2 £57,500 -
Test Planning
UK

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (100.00%) SNA
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCSP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft