Black-Box Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Black-Box Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Black-Box Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 901 332 1208
Rank change year-on-year -569 +876 -346
Permanent jobs citing Black-Box Testing 13 1,049 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 1.01% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 1.06% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 9 16 13
10th Percentile - - £26,850
25th Percentile £53,750 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -33.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £51,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £74,500 £63,125 £89,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year +43.75% -6.98% +4.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,624 98,922 149,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,744 58,119 83,346
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,500 £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%

Black-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Black-Box Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Black-Box Testing in the UK

Black-Box Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Black-Box Testing.

Salary trend for Black-Box Testing in the UK

Black-Box Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Black-Box Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Black-Box Testing in the UK

Black-Box Testing
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Black-Box Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 -509 13 £62,500 +56.25% 9
West Midlands -129 7 £57,500 +43.75%
Midlands -175 7 £57,500 +43.75% 2
UK excluding London -511 7 £57,500 +43.75% 5
London -29 6 £70,000 +75.00% 3

Black-Box Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Wireless
2 4 (30.77%) Bluetooth
2 4 (30.77%) Ethernet
2 4 (30.77%) FlexRay
2 4 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Burp Suite
2 3 (23.08%) Metasploit
3 2 (15.38%) Appium
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) Calabash
4 1 (7.69%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
4 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) Postman
4 1 (7.69%) Selenium
4 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
4 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (7.69%) TestRail
4 1 (7.69%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.69%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (30.77%) Automotive
2 3 (23.08%) Electronics
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Test Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Security Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Security Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Testing Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Testing Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Manual Tester
4 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.69%) QA Manual Tester
4 1 (7.69%) QA Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) IoT
2 4 (30.77%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.69%) Media Streaming
4 1 (7.69%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (7.69%) STB
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Kali Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) Penetration Testing
1 7 (53.85%) Systems Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
2 5 (38.46%) White-Box Testing
3 4 (30.77%) API Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) Security Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 3 (23.08%) Logistics
4 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
4 3 (23.08%) OWASP
4 3 (23.08%) Red Team
4 3 (23.08%) Social Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Threat Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Regression Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Scrum
6 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) C
2 3 (23.08%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) CREST Certified
1 3 (23.08%) OSCE
1 3 (23.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) JTAG
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Nessus
1 3 (23.08%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Lauterbach
1 3 (23.08%) Qualys
2 1 (7.69%) Hitachi