Test Planning Contracts in England

Test Planning
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 543 571
Rank change year-on-year +158 +28 -35
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 152 104 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.24% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 66 143
10th Percentile £363 £356 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.21%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £556
90th Percentile £710 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% +19.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £67.00 £72.00 £21.80
25th Percentile £79.38 £75.00 £22.42
Median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 £23.70
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +237.62% -5.22%
75th Percentile £89.06 £85.00 £25.22
90th Percentile £89.63 £88.00 £25.99
UK median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% +207.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,491 43,355 63,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.40% 90.10% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,622 30,435 45,445
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,535 1,743
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Planning in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Planning in England

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London +131 88 £550 +2.33% 10
North of England +27 18 £517 +1.87% 2
South West +3 12 £393 -1.88% 4
Midlands +37 11 £450 -10.00% 7
East of England +19 11 £375 - 4
Yorkshire +16 9 £500 +0.05%
North West +15 9 £600 - 2
South East +7 8 £500 +8.11% 6
West Midlands +28 7 £475 -5.00% 4
East Midlands - 4 £335 - 3
Test Planning
UK

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (1.32%) CMS
3 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.66%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.97%) Windchill
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (9.87%) Loan IQ
2 3 (1.97%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.97%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.97%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.66%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.66%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.66%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.66%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (7.24%) Azure
2 10 (6.58%) AWS
3 9 (5.92%) BrowserStack
3 9 (5.92%) Firebase
3 9 (5.92%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 8 (5.26%) BlazeMeter
5 6 (3.95%) SaaS
6 5 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.97%) GCP
7 3 (1.97%) PaaS
8 2 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.32%) GitHub
8 2 (1.32%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (1.32%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.66%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.66%) Commercetools
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.21%) BGP
1 14 (9.21%) Ethernet VPN
1 14 (9.21%) HSRP
1 14 (9.21%) IPv4
1 14 (9.21%) MPLS
1 14 (9.21%) RSVP
1 14 (9.21%) SNMP
1 14 (9.21%) VPLS
1 14 (9.21%) VRRP
2 7 (4.61%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (4.61%) IOS XR
3 4 (2.63%) Internet
4 3 (1.97%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.97%) Wireless
5 1 (0.66%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
2 3 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.66%) Big Data
4 1 (0.66%) DB2
4 1 (0.66%) HDInsight
4 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.66%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (22.37%) JIRA
2 16 (10.53%) JMeter
3 15 (9.87%) Selenium
4 14 (9.21%) Postman
5 12 (7.89%) Cypress.io
5 12 (7.89%) GitLab
5 12 (7.89%) Jenkins
6 10 (6.58%) Appium
6 10 (6.58%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.29%) Git
8 4 (2.63%) JUnit
9 3 (1.97%) CppUnit
9 3 (1.97%) PVCS
9 3 (1.97%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.97%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.97%) TestNG
9 3 (1.97%) Zephyr
10 2 (1.32%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.66%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.66%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.24%) Finance
4 9 (5.92%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.26%) Banking
5 8 (5.26%) Games
6 7 (4.61%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.61%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.63%) Back Office
7 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.63%) Legal
7 4 (2.63%) Marketing
7 4 (2.63%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (1.32%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.32%) Retail
9 1 (0.66%) Aviation
9 1 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (27.63%) Analyst
2 30 (19.74%) Lead
3 27 (17.76%) Test Analyst
4 25 (16.45%) Tester
5 24 (15.79%) Business Analyst
5 24 (15.79%) Test Leader
6 17 (11.18%) Test Manager
7 14 (9.21%) IP Expert
8 11 (7.24%) Senior
9 8 (5.26%) QA Tester
10 7 (4.61%) Automation Tester
10 7 (4.61%) Cisco Expert
11 6 (3.95%) Business IT Analyst
11 6 (3.95%) IT Analyst
11 6 (3.95%) IT Business Analyst
11 6 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (3.29%) QA Analyst
12 5 (3.29%) Senior Test Analyst
13 4 (2.63%) Oracle Analyst
13 4 (2.63%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.21%) Jinja
1 14 (9.21%) JSON
1 14 (9.21%) NETCONF
1 14 (9.21%) XML
1 14 (9.21%) YANG
2 12 (7.89%) Middleware
3 9 (5.92%) WebdriverIO
4 6 (3.95%) ADO
4 6 (3.95%) Gherkin
5 4 (2.63%) .NET
5 4 (2.63%) LDAP
6 3 (1.97%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.97%) pytest
6 3 (1.97%) REST
7 2 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.32%) Spring
7 2 (1.32%) Web Services
8 1 (0.66%) CSS
8 1 (0.66%) HTML
8 1 (0.66%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.21%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (2.63%) IoT
3 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.32%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.66%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.66%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.66%) FMCG
4 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.66%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.66%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.63%) Unix
2 2 (1.32%) Android
2 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.32%) Linux
3 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (37.50%) Agile
2 47 (30.92%) Test Automation
3 43 (28.29%) Test Management
4 32 (21.05%) Test Strategy
5 27 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (17.76%) Scenario Testing
6 26 (17.11%) User Acceptance Testing
7 24 (15.79%) DevOps
7 24 (15.79%) Test Scripting
8 23 (15.13%) CI/CD
8 23 (15.13%) Performance Testing
9 22 (14.47%) Software Testing
10 21 (13.82%) Defect Tracking
11 20 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (13.16%) Project Delivery
11 20 (13.16%) Project Management
11 20 (13.16%) Validation
12 19 (12.50%) Migration
12 19 (12.50%) Regression Testing
13 18 (11.84%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.50%) Python
2 16 (10.53%) Java
3 13 (8.55%) SQL
4 10 (6.58%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.29%) C#
6 3 (1.97%) C
6 3 (1.97%) C++
7 2 (1.32%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.32%) ProC
7 2 (1.32%) R
8 1 (0.66%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) ISTQB
4 8 (5.26%) Degree
5 7 (4.61%) CCIE
5 7 (4.61%) CCIE Service Provider
5 7 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.32%) ISEB
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.66%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (32.24%) QA
2 6 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.63%) Ansible
2 2 (1.32%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.66%) Grafana
3 1 (0.66%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (9.21%) Nokia
2 10 (6.58%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.26%) SAP
4 7 (4.61%) Cisco
4 7 (4.61%) Fortinet
5 6 (3.95%) Oracle
6 4 (2.63%) VMware
7 3 (1.97%) PTC
7 3 (1.97%) Siemens
8 2 (1.32%) Databricks
8 2 (1.32%) Google
9 1 (0.66%) Adobe
9 1 (0.66%) Apple
9 1 (0.66%) HP
9 1 (0.66%) Informatica
9 1 (0.66%) Workday