Black-Box Testing Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Black-Box Testing
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Black-Box Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Black-Box Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.47% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £300 £350 £313
% change year-on-year -14.29% +12.00% -51.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 171 135 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 80.28% 94.41% 80.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 63 77
10th Percentile £253 £144 £209
25th Percentile £400 £225 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +42.31% -35.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £638 £585 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 19
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £14.64 £24.18 £12.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.13 £15.38
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +108.88% -0.77%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.86 £21.14
90th Percentile - £78.47 £25.20
UK median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%

Black-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Black-Box Testing job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Black-Box Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

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

Black-Box Testing
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 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
County Antrim - 1 - -
Black-Box Testing
UK

Black-Box Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker