Test Planning Jobs in the South East

Test Planning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 367 379
Rank change year-on-year +206 +12 +51
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 169 29 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.76% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 0.20% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 164 9 18
10th Percentile - £39,700 £38,775
25th Percentile - £58,750 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% -10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £66,250 -
90th Percentile - £68,750 -
England median annual salary £70,600 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +34.48% -19.23% +23.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,818 14,215 13,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.86% 84.35% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,870 7,861
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Test Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the South East

Test Planning
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in the South East.

Salary trend for Test Planning in the South East

Test Planning
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Planning in the South East

Test Planning
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Isle of Wight - 159 £70,600 - 15
Thames Valley +55 5 £115,000 - 3
Surrey +45 4 £47,500 -24.00% 1
Oxfordshire - 4 £115,000 - 1
Kent +33 1 £45,000 +28.57% 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.59%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (0.59%) AWS
1 1 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) 3GPP
1 1 (0.59%) 5G
1 1 (0.59%) Bluetooth
1 1 (0.59%) Broadband
1 1 (0.59%) Internet
1 1 (0.59%) Mobile Broadband
1 1 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (0.59%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.59%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 159 (94.08%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (1.18%) Appium
2 2 (1.18%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.18%) Selenium
2 2 (1.18%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.59%) GitLab
3 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.59%) JIRA
General
1 159 (94.08%) Electronics
2 5 (2.96%) Aeronautics
2 5 (2.96%) Aerospace
2 5 (2.96%) Automotive
2 5 (2.96%) Law
3 2 (1.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 159 (94.08%) Principal Engineer
1 159 (94.08%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 159 (94.08%) Systems Engineer
2 18 (10.65%) Radar Engineer
3 5 (2.96%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (1.78%) Tester
5 2 (1.18%) Automation Tester
5 2 (1.18%) QA Automation Tester
5 2 (1.18%) QA Tester
5 2 (1.18%) Software QA Tester
5 2 (1.18%) Software Tester
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (0.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (0.59%) Test Engineer
6 1 (0.59%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.18%) .NET
1 2 (1.18%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (1.18%) Blazor
1 2 (1.18%) gRPC
1 2 (1.18%) WPF
2 1 (0.59%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 159 (94.08%) Algorithms
2 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (0.59%) ASIC
3 1 (0.59%) ASIC Verification
3 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
3 1 (0.59%) IoT
3 1 (0.59%) NVMe
3 1 (0.59%) PCIe
3 1 (0.59%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (94.67%) Signal Processing
2 159 (94.08%) Systems Engineering
2 159 (94.08%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (2.96%) CAD
3 5 (2.96%) CAE
3 5 (2.96%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
3 5 (2.96%) Data Collection
3 5 (2.96%) Decision-Making
3 5 (2.96%) Fluid Mechanics
3 5 (2.96%) Performance Engineering
3 5 (2.96%) Physics
4 3 (1.78%) CI/CD
4 3 (1.78%) Software Testing
4 3 (1.78%) Test Automation
5 2 (1.18%) Code Quality
5 2 (1.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (1.18%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (1.18%) QA Automation
5 2 (1.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.18%) C#
2 1 (0.59%) Perl
2 1 (0.59%) Python
2 1 (0.59%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (0.59%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 159 (94.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (4.73%) Degree
3 6 (3.55%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (94.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 4 (2.37%) QA
3 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 159 (94.08%) IBM
2 1 (0.59%) Cadence
2 1 (0.59%) Siemens
2 1 (0.59%) Synopsys