Black-Box Testing Contract Job Trends in England

Black-Box Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Black-Box Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 504 544
Rank change year-on-year -43 +40 +164
Contract jobs citing Black-Box Testing 2 7 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.024% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.027% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 4
10th Percentile - £328 £245
25th Percentile £463 £350 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £494
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -19.03% -3.61%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £597
90th Percentile - £475 £636
UK median daily rate £475 £338 £438
% change year-on-year +40.74% -22.86% -10.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Black-Box Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

Black-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Black-Box Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Black-Box Testing job vacancy trend in England

Black-Box Testing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Black-Box Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Black-Box Testing

Black-Box Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Black-Box Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Black-Box Testing

Black-Box Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
London -11 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £475 -
Black-Box Testing
UK

Black-Box Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (50.00%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Avaloq
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce