Test Planning Jobs in the North West

Test Planning
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 277 325
Rank change year-on-year -30 +48 -56
Permanent jobs citing Test Planning 6 13 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.053% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 9
10th Percentile - £44,750 £37,900
25th Percentile £36,250 £50,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £46,974
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +17.09% +13.88%
75th Percentile - £69,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £53,050 £75,000 £53,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,085 6,941 9,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 79.65% 95.62% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6,603 3,839 5,331
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +7.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Test Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in the North West

Test Planning
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in the North West.

Salary trend for Test Planning in the North West

Test Planning
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Planning in the North West

Test Planning
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Manchester +12 6 £52,000 -5.45% 3
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Automotive
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Software Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Test Management
4 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
5 2 (33.33%) ERP
5 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Line Management
5 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Matrix Management
5 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) HND
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) Workday