Black-Box Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Black-Box Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Black-Box Testing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 452 492
Rank change year-on-year +75 +40 -73
Contract jobs citing Black-Box Testing 9 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.017% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.019% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £370 £376 £373
25th Percentile £381 £397 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -7.89% +22.58%
75th Percentile £488 £472 £488
90th Percentile £540 £489 £495
UK median daily rate £363 £650 £375
% change year-on-year -44.23% +73.33% -11.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £19.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,229 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.55% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,247 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,039 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Black-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Black-Box Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Black-Box Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Midlands +35 5 - - 1
West Midlands +27 5 - -
South West - 2 £463 -
Scotland - 1 £400 -
South East - 1 - -
Black-Box Testing
UK

Black-Box Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Simulink
1 5 (55.56%) Stateflow
1 5 (55.56%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
2 5 (55.56%) Bitbucket
2 5 (55.56%) Subversion
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Automotive
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
4 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (11.11%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) White-Box Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Software Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Functional Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 5 (55.56%) Integration Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Line Management
4 5 (55.56%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Project Management
4 5 (55.56%) QMS
4 5 (55.56%) Quality Management
4 5 (55.56%) Software Audit
4 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) UML
4 5 (55.56%) Validation
4 5 (55.56%) Verification and Validation
5 4 (44.44%) Scrum
6 3 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C
1 5 (55.56%) MATLAB
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 5 (55.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (55.56%) ISO 26262
1 5 (55.56%) MISRA
1 5 (55.56%) MISRA C
2 3 (33.33%) QA
3 2 (22.22%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle