Test Planning Contracts in Central London

Test Planning
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Test Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Planning over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 168 190
Rank change year-on-year +40 +22 -44
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 9 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.38% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.21% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £498 £516 £481
25th Percentile £513 £533 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +41.18%
75th Percentile £638 £719 £625
90th Percentile - £798 £676
London median daily rate £550 £531 £525
% change year-on-year +3.53% +1.19% +14.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Test Planning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,368 4,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.89% 91.27% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,272 3,148
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £681
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.08 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.28
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.08
% change year-on-year -28.59% +11.79% +7.35%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in Central London

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in Central London

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in Central London

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in Central London

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +41 9 £550 -4.35% 3
Test Planning
London

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
1 1 (11.11%) Firebase
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Appium
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) JMeter
3 1 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Test Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) QA Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) QA Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Fixed Income
1 1 (11.11%) IoT
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 1 (11.11%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Defect Tracking
3 4 (44.44%) Manual Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 3 (33.33%) Data Management
4 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Requirements Management
5 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Management
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
6 1 (11.11%) API Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Business Case
6 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (11.11%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) SAP