Black-Box Testing Contract Job Trends in Essex

Black-Box Testing
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Black-Box Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Black-Box Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.80% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
East of England median daily rate £300 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76 71 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 68.47% 77.17% 81.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 36 111
10th Percentile £185 £180 £185
25th Percentile £300 £213 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £318 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.65% -29.33% -2.70%
75th Percentile £491 £491 £550
90th Percentile £607 £600 £600
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 36
10th Percentile £12.75 £30.50 £10.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £31.25 £13.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £32.50 £34.08
Median % change year-on-year -41.94% -4.62% -23.43%
75th Percentile £23.56 £33.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £49.06 £34.50 £75.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -49.43% +25.79% +44.55%

Black-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Black-Box Testing job vacancy trend in Essex

Black-Box Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

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

Black-Box Testing
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. 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
Basildon - 2 £300 -
Black-Box Testing
East of England

Black-Box Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (100.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Sourcetree
1 2 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian