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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 880 345 1170
Rank change year-on-year -535 +825 -316
Permanent jobs citing Black-Box Testing 14 1,052 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 1.00% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 1.05% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 15
10th Percentile £52,000 - £25,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.13% -33.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £58,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £66,500 £85,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year +43.75% +23.08% -21.21%

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 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Black-Box Testing in the UK

Black-Box Testing
Top 8 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 25 April 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 -498 14 £61,250 +53.13% 6
UK excluding London -503 8 £57,500 +43.75% 6
West Midlands -132 7 £57,500 +43.75% 1
Midlands -177 7 £57,500 +43.75% 4
London -31 6 £70,000 +75.00%
Work from Home +95 1 £37,500 -34.50% 1
North West -187 1 £37,500 -37.50%
North of England -249 1 £37,500 -33.04%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) Wireless
2 4 (28.57%) Bluetooth
2 4 (28.57%) Ethernet
2 4 (28.57%) FlexRay
2 4 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) Burp Suite
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Metasploit
3 2 (14.29%) Appium
3 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.14%) Calabash
4 1 (7.14%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
4 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
4 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.14%) Postman
4 1 (7.14%) Selenium
4 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
4 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
4 1 (7.14%) TestRail
4 1 (7.14%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (28.57%) Automotive
2 3 (21.43%) Electronics
2 3 (21.43%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Games
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Security Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Security Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Testing Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Testing Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Manual Tester
4 1 (7.14%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.14%) QA Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) IoT
2 4 (28.57%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.14%) Media Streaming
4 1 (7.14%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (7.14%) STB
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Kali Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Android
2 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 7 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) White-Box Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) API Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 3 (21.43%) Logistics
5 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
5 3 (21.43%) OWASP
5 3 (21.43%) Red Team
5 3 (21.43%) Social Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Threat Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Scrum
7 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) C
2 3 (21.43%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) CREST Certified
1 3 (21.43%) OSCE
1 3 (21.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 3 (21.43%) JTAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Nessus
1 3 (21.43%) Nmap
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Lauterbach
1 3 (21.43%) Qualys
2 1 (7.14%) Hitachi