Test Planning Job Trends in Southampton

Test Planning
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Test Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.37% - 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31,250 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 - £62,500
75th Percentile £33,750 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £75,900 £48,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +58.13% -23.20% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 417 462 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 77.80% 84.00% 90.02%
Number of salaries quoted 294 332 350
10th Percentile £30,375 £32,750 £28,175
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £75,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £56,921 £52,000
% change year-on-year -12.16% +9.46% -5.45%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Southampton

Test Planning
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Test Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Ranorex
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Document Management
1 2 (100.00%) OCR
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle