Test Planning Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Test Planning
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Test Planning skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.088% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £53,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £52,500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 877 418 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 77.54% 94.78% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 664 243 854
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,550 £30,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,472 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,250 £65,603
90th Percentile £80,950 £82,500 £76,250
North East median annual salary £48,445 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.11% +5.26% -5.00%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Test Planning job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Test Planning
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Test Planning.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Test Planning

Test Planning
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £52,500 - 1
Test Planning
North East

Test Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript