Test Planning Jobs

Test Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 764 780
Rank change year-on-year +273 +16 +17
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 204 132 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.16% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 187 66 102
10th Percentile £54,000 £36,250 £37,750
25th Percentile - £47,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £56,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.51% -13.46% +19.27%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile - £91,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,600 £50,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +41.20% -10.71% +8.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,568 84,685 99,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.32% 85.99% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,511 59,837 58,366
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,009 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Planning over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +293 175 £70,600 +41.20% 56
England +232 175 £70,600 +34.48% 84
Work from Home +313 167 £70,600 +12.96% 70
South East +210 133 £70,600 +12.96% 20
London +97 28 £82,500 +0.61% 39
Wales +68 24 £70,600 +8.62% 1
Midlands +68 8 £45,000 -10.00% 3
West Midlands +35 6 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Scotland +124 4 £52,500 -22.22% 6
East of England +59 4 £57,000 +76.96% 18
North of England +76 2 £51,498 +15.08% 9
East Midlands +51 2 - - 1
Yorkshire +71 1 - - 3
North West +28 1 £51,498 +15.08% 6

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (9.80%) Azure
2 13 (6.37%) Power Platform
3 10 (4.90%) AWS
4 9 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.45%) GCP
6 4 (1.96%) GitHub
7 3 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.47%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.47%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.98%) SaaS
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.49%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.98%) HTTP
2 1 (0.49%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.49%) 5G
2 1 (0.49%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.49%) Broadband
2 1 (0.49%) Firewall
2 1 (0.49%) Internet
2 1 (0.49%) Mobile Broadband
2 1 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.49%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.92%) Power BI
2 7 (3.43%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.96%) MS Access
5 3 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.98%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.98%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.49%) Big Data
7 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 148 (72.55%) Rational DOORS
2 14 (6.86%) Selenium
3 10 (4.90%) JMeter
4 9 (4.41%) Cypress.io
4 9 (4.41%) JIRA
4 9 (4.41%) Postman
5 6 (2.94%) SoapUI
6 5 (2.45%) Appium
6 5 (2.45%) Jenkins
6 5 (2.45%) LoadRunner
6 5 (2.45%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.96%) CppUnit
7 4 (1.96%) JUnit
8 3 (1.47%) Mocha
8 3 (1.47%) MSTest
8 3 (1.47%) NUnit
8 3 (1.47%) TestRail
8 3 (1.47%) XCUITest
9 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.98%) TestNG
General
1 144 (70.59%) Electronics
2 11 (5.39%) Law
2 11 (5.39%) Social Skills
3 10 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.43%) Aeronautics
4 7 (3.43%) Aerospace
4 7 (3.43%) Automotive
4 7 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.94%) Finance
5 6 (2.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.98%) Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Back Office
8 1 (0.49%) Front Office
8 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Legal
8 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Police
8 1 (0.49%) Retail
8 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (70.59%) Principal Engineer
1 144 (70.59%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 144 (70.59%) Systems Engineer
2 9 (4.41%) Analyst
2 9 (4.41%) Tester
3 8 (3.92%) Senior
4 7 (3.43%) Performance Engineer
4 7 (3.43%) Radar Engineer
4 7 (3.43%) Test Engineer
5 6 (2.94%) Lead
5 6 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (2.45%) Software Engineer
6 5 (2.45%) Test Analyst
6 5 (2.45%) Test Manager
6 5 (2.45%) Verification Engineer
7 4 (1.96%) Developer
7 4 (1.96%) Development Engineer
7 4 (1.96%) Software Development Engineer
7 4 (1.96%) Test Development Engineer
7 4 (1.96%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.94%) .NET
1 6 (2.94%) Blazor
1 6 (2.94%) Web Services
1 6 (2.94%) WPF
2 5 (2.45%) ADO
2 5 (2.45%) REST
3 4 (1.96%) ODBC
3 4 (1.96%) Playwright
4 3 (1.47%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.47%) CSS
4 3 (1.47%) HTML
4 3 (1.47%) Jest
4 3 (1.47%) JSON
4 3 (1.47%) Swagger
4 3 (1.47%) WebdriverIO
5 2 (0.98%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.98%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (0.98%) gRPC
5 2 (0.98%) Node.js
5 2 (0.98%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 144 (70.59%) Algorithms
2 6 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.47%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.98%) Data Centre
4 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (0.98%) Reinsurance
4 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.49%) ASIC
5 1 (0.49%) ASIC Verification
5 1 (0.49%) Blog
5 1 (0.49%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.49%) IoT
5 1 (0.49%) NHS
5 1 (0.49%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.49%) NVMe
5 1 (0.49%) PCIe
5 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.49%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (71.08%) Signal Processing
2 144 (70.59%) Systems Engineering
2 144 (70.59%) Technical Leadership
3 40 (19.61%) Test Automation
4 29 (14.22%) Agile
5 25 (12.25%) Software Testing
6 22 (10.78%) Test Strategy
7 19 (9.31%) CI/CD
8 18 (8.82%) Test Scripting
9 15 (7.35%) Manual Testing
10 14 (6.86%) Test Management
11 13 (6.37%) DevOps
11 13 (6.37%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (6.37%) Security Testing
12 12 (5.88%) Defect Management
12 12 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (5.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (5.39%) Regression Testing
13 11 (5.39%) Scrum
14 10 (4.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.82%) SQL
2 14 (6.86%) JavaScript
3 12 (5.88%) C#
4 6 (2.94%) Python
5 5 (2.45%) Java
6 4 (1.96%) C
6 4 (1.96%) Delphi
6 4 (1.96%) XAML
7 3 (1.47%) Swift
7 3 (1.47%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.98%) C++
9 1 (0.49%) Perl
9 1 (0.49%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.49%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 146 (71.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 17 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 16 (7.84%) Degree
4 9 (4.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 8 (3.92%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.43%) PhD
7 4 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.96%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.96%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.47%) CISSP
9 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.49%) CSQA
10 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (70.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 22 (10.78%) QA
3 5 (2.45%) GDPR
4 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.49%) MiFID
5 1 (0.49%) NCSC
5 1 (0.49%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.45%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.49%) Nessus
Vendors
1 144 (70.59%) IBM
2 5 (2.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (0.98%) Splunk
4 1 (0.49%) Cadence
4 1 (0.49%) FIS
4 1 (0.49%) Google
4 1 (0.49%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.49%) SAP
4 1 (0.49%) Siemens
4 1 (0.49%) Synopsys
4 1 (0.49%) VMware
4 1 (0.49%) Workday