Test Planning Job Trends in Shropshire

Test Planning
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Test Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 0.92% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% - -
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £36,500 - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £50,000 - -
90th Percentile £54,500 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 359 74 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 66.36% 80.43% 81.25%
Number of salaries quoted 214 57 163
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +26.51% -27.83%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £72,625 £74,250 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £53,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +6.60% -4.76%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Test Planning
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Test Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Salary Histogram in Shropshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in Shropshire over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Planning in Shropshire

Test Planning
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Telford - 5 £45,000 - 2
Test Planning
West Midlands

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Siteimprove
2 2 (40.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Postman
3 2 (40.00%) Burp Suite
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (40.00%) Gatling
3 2 (40.00%) GitLab
3 2 (40.00%) HP UFT
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) JMeter
3 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
3 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
3 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (40.00%) TestRail
3 2 (40.00%) Toad
3 2 (40.00%) Zephyr
4 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) QA Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Senior QA Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Kali Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Management
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
4 2 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
4 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) OWASP
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (40.00%) QA Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) SDET
4 2 (40.00%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) HP ALM
1 2 (40.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) HP
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Veracode