Test Planning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Test Planning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Planning over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 756 782 827
Rank change year-on-year +26 +45 -76
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 134 195 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 67 99 230
10th Percentile £38,108 £39,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £44,671
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +20.93% +9.92%
75th Percentile £69,375 £85,000 £72,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +11.11%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Planning in the UK

Test Planning
Top 15 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 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +28 115 £52,500 -19.23% 36
UK excluding London -72 87 £51,000 -7.27% 26
Work from Home +77 43 £62,500 +8.70% 11
London +96 41 £82,000 -3.53% 10
South East +13 30 £62,500 -10.71% 6
Midlands -15 20 £50,000 -9.09% 7
West Midlands +7 19 £50,000 -4.76% 4
Scotland -55 13 £67,500 - 2
North of England +19 12 £52,000 -5.45% 2
South West -25 8 £53,750 - 4
Yorkshire +59 6 £45,000 -15.09%
North West -3 6 £52,000 -5.45% 2
Wales +8 2 £65,000 - 1
East of England -16 2 £32,211 - 4
East Midlands -9 1 - - 3

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 4 (2.99%) TWiki
2 2 (1.49%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.49%) Simulink
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (6.72%) Azure
1 9 (6.72%) BlazeMeter
2 6 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (3.73%) AWS
4 4 (2.99%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (2.99%) Cloud Functions
4 4 (2.99%) dbt
4 4 (2.99%) GCP
4 4 (2.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (2.99%) SaaS
4 4 (2.99%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.75%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.72%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (2.99%) Tableau
4 1 (0.75%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.75%) Metadata
4 1 (0.75%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (17.91%) JIRA
2 18 (13.43%) Cypress.io
2 18 (13.43%) Selenium
3 17 (12.69%) Jenkins
4 14 (10.45%) JUnit
5 13 (9.70%) JMeter
6 12 (8.96%) TestRail
7 11 (8.21%) Maven
8 10 (7.46%) Cucumber
9 9 (6.72%) Gradle
10 7 (5.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (5.22%) WebDriver
11 4 (2.99%) eggPlant
12 3 (2.24%) TestNG
13 2 (1.49%) Postman
13 2 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (0.75%) Appium
14 1 (0.75%) Git
14 1 (0.75%) GitLab
14 1 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 49 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 36 (26.87%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (24.63%) Finance
4 19 (14.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (7.46%) Marketing
6 9 (6.72%) Law
7 7 (5.22%) Aerospace
7 7 (5.22%) Financial Institution
8 5 (3.73%) Automotive
8 5 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Police
9 2 (1.49%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.75%) Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Electronics
10 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Publishing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (27.61%) Analyst
2 33 (24.63%) Lead
3 25 (18.66%) Senior
4 20 (14.93%) Senior Analyst
5 15 (11.19%) Test Analyst
6 14 (10.45%) QA Engineer
7 12 (8.96%) Test Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Business Analyst
8 9 (6.72%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
8 9 (6.72%) Java Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Java Software Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) QA Software Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Senior Business Analyst
8 9 (6.72%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.48%) Test Manager
9 6 (4.48%) Tester
10 5 (3.73%) Insurance Business Analyst
11 4 (2.99%) Architect
12 3 (2.24%) Consultant
12 3 (2.24%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.94%) React
2 11 (8.21%) Spring
2 11 (8.21%) Spring Boot
3 9 (6.72%) Ext JS
3 9 (6.72%) REST
3 9 (6.72%) Web Services
4 7 (5.22%) Apache Thrift
4 7 (5.22%) JSON
5 4 (2.99%) XML
6 3 (2.24%) RESTful
7 2 (1.49%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.75%) Apache Felix
8 1 (0.75%) Apache Sling
8 1 (0.75%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (0.75%) HTML
8 1 (0.75%) HTML5
8 1 (0.75%) J2EE
8 1 (0.75%) jQuery
8 1 (0.75%) MACH
8 1 (0.75%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.40%) Product Ownership
2 17 (12.69%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (11.94%) Mobile App
4 9 (6.72%) Market Risk
5 7 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.49%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.75%) NHS
8 1 (0.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.99%) Windows
1 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
1 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (79.10%) Agile
2 95 (70.90%) Test Automation
3 69 (51.49%) Software Testing
4 48 (35.82%) Test Strategy
5 42 (31.34%) Mentoring
6 40 (29.85%) Test Scripting
7 38 (28.36%) SDLC
8 37 (27.61%) Test Management
9 36 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (22.39%) Regression Testing
11 29 (21.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (20.15%) SDET
13 23 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (16.42%) Computer Science
14 22 (16.42%) Continuous Integration
14 22 (16.42%) Manual Testing
15 20 (14.93%) CI/CD
15 20 (14.93%) Performance Testing
16 19 (14.18%) User Acceptance Testing
17 18 (13.43%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (26.12%) Java
2 21 (15.67%) SQL
3 19 (14.18%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.70%) C#
5 7 (5.22%) Python
6 5 (3.73%) C
7 4 (2.99%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.24%) Embedded C
9 2 (1.49%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (25.37%) Degree
2 25 (18.66%) ISTQB
3 21 (15.67%) Security Cleared
4 15 (11.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (10.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 12 (8.96%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.22%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.99%) ISEB
9 2 (1.49%) HND
9 2 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.75%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.75%) MCSE
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (31.34%) QA
2 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.75%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Firmware
2 3 (2.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.72%) TOWER Software
3 6 (4.48%) Google
4 3 (2.24%) SAP
5 2 (1.49%) BT
5 2 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe
6 1 (0.75%) Murex
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle
6 1 (0.75%) Remedy
6 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.75%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.75%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.75%) Workday