Test Planning Contracts

Test Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 574 599
Rank change year-on-year +145 +25 -26
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 164 129 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.24% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 86 177
10th Percentile £363 £375 £306
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -3.65% +16.36%
75th Percentile £609 £597 £550
90th Percentile £712 £663 £605
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £481 £438
% change year-on-year -6.49% +10.00% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £69.75 £72.00 £26.45
25th Percentile £86.25 £75.00 £27.88
Median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +162.30% +22.00%
75th Percentile £88.75 £85.00 £32.88
90th Percentile £89.50 £88.00 £34.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.50 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year +9.38% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,452 53,231 80,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.33% 89.85% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 36,930 56,488
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,454 1,752 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Planning over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +168 151 £513 +2.50% 39
London +137 86 £575 -4.17% 13
UK excluding London +60 65 £450 -6.49% 30
Work from Home +129 58 £521 +15.78% 11
North of England +30 19 £509 +0.20% 5
East of England +26 12 £375 - 3
Midlands +35 11 £450 -10.00% 6
South West +18 10 £393 -1.88% 4
North West +16 10 £575 -4.17% 5
South East +6 9 £500 +8.11% 7
Yorkshire +23 8 £484 -3.30%
West Midlands +27 7 £475 -5.00% 4
Scotland +38 4 £526 +33.89% 3
East Midlands - 4 £335 - 2
North East +18 1 £500 -

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 15 (9.15%) Confluence
2 2 (1.22%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (2.44%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.83%) Windchill
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (9.15%) Loan IQ
2 3 (1.83%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.83%) Oracle HRMS
2 3 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.83%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Payroll
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.61%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.61%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.61%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.61%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.61%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (6.71%) Azure
2 10 (6.10%) AWS
3 8 (4.88%) SaaS
4 5 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.05%) BrowserStack
4 5 (3.05%) Firebase
4 5 (3.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 4 (2.44%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (1.83%) PaaS
7 2 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.22%) GCP
7 2 (1.22%) GitHub
7 2 (1.22%) OCI
7 2 (1.22%) Oracle CX
7 2 (1.22%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 2 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.22%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.37%) BGP
1 17 (10.37%) Ethernet VPN
1 17 (10.37%) HSRP
1 17 (10.37%) IPv4
1 17 (10.37%) MPLS
1 17 (10.37%) RSVP
1 17 (10.37%) SNMP
1 17 (10.37%) VPLS
1 17 (10.37%) VRRP
2 9 (5.49%) Cisco IOS
2 9 (5.49%) IOS XR
3 4 (2.44%) Internet
4 3 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.83%) Wireless
5 1 (0.61%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.61%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.61%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.22%) Data Lake
2 2 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.61%) Big Data
3 1 (0.61%) HDInsight
3 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (21.95%) JIRA
2 15 (9.15%) Selenium
3 12 (7.32%) JMeter
4 10 (6.10%) Cucumber
4 10 (6.10%) Postman
5 8 (4.88%) Cypress.io
5 8 (4.88%) GitLab
5 8 (4.88%) Jenkins
6 6 (3.66%) Appium
7 4 (2.44%) CppUnit
7 4 (2.44%) Git
7 4 (2.44%) PVCS
7 4 (2.44%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (1.83%) JUnit
8 3 (1.83%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.83%) TestNG
8 3 (1.83%) Zephyr
9 2 (1.22%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.61%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 55 (33.54%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.32%) Banking
3 12 (7.32%) Finance
4 11 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.88%) Games
5 8 (4.88%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.05%) Legal
8 4 (2.44%) Back Office
8 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.44%) Marketing
8 4 (2.44%) Wholesale Banking
9 3 (1.83%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.22%) Retail
11 1 (0.61%) Aviation
11 1 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (26.83%) Analyst
2 32 (19.51%) Lead
3 27 (16.46%) Test Analyst
4 26 (15.85%) Test Leader
4 26 (15.85%) Test Manager
5 24 (14.63%) Business Analyst
6 21 (12.80%) Tester
7 17 (10.37%) IP Expert
8 11 (6.71%) Senior
9 9 (5.49%) Cisco Expert
10 6 (3.66%) Automation Tester
10 6 (3.66%) Business IT Analyst
10 6 (3.66%) IT Analyst
10 6 (3.66%) IT Business Analyst
10 6 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (3.05%) QA Tester
11 5 (3.05%) Senior Test Analyst
12 4 (2.44%) QA Analyst
12 4 (2.44%) QA Test Analyst
12 4 (2.44%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.37%) Jinja
1 17 (10.37%) JSON
1 17 (10.37%) NETCONF
1 17 (10.37%) XML
1 17 (10.37%) YANG
2 10 (6.10%) ADO
3 7 (4.27%) Middleware
4 5 (3.05%) Gherkin
4 5 (3.05%) WebdriverIO
5 4 (2.44%) .NET
5 4 (2.44%) LDAP
6 3 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.83%) pytest
6 3 (1.83%) REST
7 2 (1.22%) Web Services
8 1 (0.61%) CSS
8 1 (0.61%) HTML
8 1 (0.61%) Kafka
8 1 (0.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.37%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (3.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.44%) IoT
5 2 (1.22%) Equities
5 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.22%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.61%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.61%) FMCG
6 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.61%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.61%) NHS
6 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.44%) Unix
2 2 (1.22%) Linux
3 1 (0.61%) Android
3 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (35.37%) Agile
2 44 (26.83%) Test Automation
2 44 (26.83%) Test Management
3 35 (21.34%) Test Strategy
4 31 (18.90%) User Acceptance Testing
5 29 (17.68%) DevOps
6 28 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (17.07%) Scenario Testing
7 27 (16.46%) Test Scripting
8 26 (15.85%) Project Management
9 23 (14.02%) Project Delivery
10 22 (13.41%) Defect Management
11 21 (12.80%) Regression Testing
11 21 (12.80%) Software Testing
12 19 (11.59%) CI/CD
12 19 (11.59%) Migration
12 19 (11.59%) Performance Testing
12 19 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (10.98%) Defect Tracking
13 18 (10.98%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (10.37%) Python
2 13 (7.93%) Java
3 12 (7.32%) SQL
4 6 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.05%) C#
6 4 (2.44%) C
6 4 (2.44%) C++
7 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.22%) ProC
7 2 (1.22%) R
8 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.15%) ISTQB
4 13 (7.93%) Degree
5 9 (5.49%) CCIE
5 9 (5.49%) CCIE Service Provider
5 9 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.66%) ISEB
7 2 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.22%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (1.22%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.22%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.22%) PMP
8 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (28.05%) QA
2 6 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.83%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.22%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.22%) PMO
5 1 (0.61%) COREP
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) FINREP
System Software
1 4 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.44%) Ansible
1 4 (2.44%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.61%) Grafana
2 1 (0.61%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (10.37%) Nokia
2 11 (6.71%) Oracle
3 10 (6.10%) SAP
4 9 (5.49%) Cisco
5 8 (4.88%) Fortinet
5 8 (4.88%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.44%) Genesys
6 4 (2.44%) VMware
7 3 (1.83%) PTC
7 3 (1.83%) Siemens
8 2 (1.22%) Ariba
8 2 (1.22%) Databricks
8 2 (1.22%) HP
9 1 (0.61%) Adobe
9 1 (0.61%) Apple
9 1 (0.61%) Avaya
9 1 (0.61%) Cerner
9 1 (0.61%) Google
9 1 (0.61%) Informatica
9 1 (0.61%) Workday