Test Planning Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Planning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 546 626
Rank change year-on-year +275 +80 +93
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 195 40 41
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 0.12% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 190 23 39
10th Percentile - £39,928 £46,385
25th Percentile - £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,600 £62,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% +11.61% +12.00%
75th Percentile - £68,750 £71,500
90th Percentile - £71,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,600 £53,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +31.35% -17.31% +20.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,373 30,884 39,545
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.99% 91.37% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,816 23,455 27,516
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Test Planning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Planning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Planning
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Planning.

Test Planning salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Planning
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Planning over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Test Planning salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (0.51%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (3.59%) Azure
2 4 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (2.05%) Power Platform
3 3 (1.54%) AWS
4 1 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.51%) GCP
4 1 (0.51%) GitHub
4 1 (0.51%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) HTTP
2 1 (0.51%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.03%) Power BI
2 1 (0.51%) Big Data
2 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.51%) MySQL
2 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 176 (90.26%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.05%) CppUnit
3 4 (2.05%) JIRA
3 4 (2.05%) Selenium
4 3 (1.54%) JMeter
4 3 (1.54%) Postman
5 2 (1.03%) Appium
5 2 (1.03%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.03%) JUnit
5 2 (1.03%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.03%) Xcode
5 2 (1.03%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.51%) Gatling
6 1 (0.51%) GitLab
6 1 (0.51%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.51%) Locust
6 1 (0.51%) TestRail
6 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 172 (88.21%) Electronics
2 6 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.05%) Social Skills
5 3 (1.54%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.03%) Finance
7 1 (0.51%) Back Office
7 1 (0.51%) Banking
7 1 (0.51%) Front Office
7 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.51%) Law
7 1 (0.51%) Legal
7 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 172 (88.21%) Principal Engineer
1 172 (88.21%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 172 (88.21%) Systems Engineer
2 14 (7.18%) Radar Engineer
3 5 (2.56%) Test Engineer
4 4 (2.05%) Embedded Engineer
4 4 (2.05%) Software Engineer
4 4 (2.05%) Software Verification Engineer
4 4 (2.05%) Verification Engineer
5 3 (1.54%) Development Engineer
5 3 (1.54%) Lead
5 3 (1.54%) Senior
5 3 (1.54%) Software Development Engineer
5 3 (1.54%) Test Development Engineer
6 2 (1.03%) iOS Software Engineer
6 2 (1.03%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (1.03%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (1.03%) Test Manager
6 2 (1.03%) Tester
7 1 (0.51%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.05%) REST
2 3 (1.54%) JSON
3 2 (1.03%) ADO
3 2 (1.03%) Web Services
4 1 (0.51%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (0.51%) CSS
4 1 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.51%) HTML
4 1 (0.51%) Kafka
4 1 (0.51%) Node.js
4 1 (0.51%) pytest
4 1 (0.51%) RESTful
4 1 (0.51%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 172 (88.21%) Algorithms
2 3 (1.54%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.51%) Blog
4 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.51%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.51%) IoT
4 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.51%) NHS
4 1 (0.51%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (88.21%) Signal Processing
1 172 (88.21%) Systems Engineering
1 172 (88.21%) Technical Leadership
2 19 (9.74%) Test Automation
3 11 (5.64%) Agile
4 10 (5.13%) Software Testing
5 9 (4.62%) Test Management
5 9 (4.62%) Test Strategy
6 8 (4.10%) CI/CD
6 8 (4.10%) Test Scripting
7 7 (3.59%) DevOps
7 7 (3.59%) Software Engineering
8 6 (3.08%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (2.56%) API Testing
9 5 (2.56%) Manual Testing
9 5 (2.56%) Regression Testing
9 5 (2.56%) Scrum
9 5 (2.56%) Security Testing
9 5 (2.56%) Unit Testing
9 5 (2.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.56%) SQL
2 4 (2.05%) C
3 3 (1.54%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.03%) C#
4 2 (1.03%) C++
4 2 (1.03%) Java
4 2 (1.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 173 (88.72%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (4.10%) ISTQB
3 3 (1.54%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.54%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.51%) CISSP
5 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.51%) CSQA
5 1 (0.51%) Degree
5 1 (0.51%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (88.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 9 (4.62%) QA
3 2 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 172 (88.21%) IBM
2 3 (1.54%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.51%) Google
3 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.51%) Splunk
3 1 (0.51%) VMware