Black-Box Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Black-Box Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Black-Box Testing over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 334 390 443
Rank change year-on-year +56 +53 +56
Contract jobs citing Black-Box Testing 5 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.043% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.051% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £397 £370 £376
25th Percentile £467 £381 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year +28.31% -8.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile £527 £488 £472
90th Percentile £542 £540 £489
UK median daily rate £350 £363 £650
% change year-on-year -3.45% -44.23% +73.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Black-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Black-Box Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Black-Box Testing in the UK excluding London

Black-Box Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
North of England - 5 £513 - 19
North West - 4 £514 - 10
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 7
Black-Box Testing
UK

Black-Box Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Manual Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Programme Delivery
2 4 (80.00%) Scenario Testing
2 4 (80.00%) System Integration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) System Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (20.00%) API Testing
5 1 (20.00%) CRM
5 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
5 1 (20.00%) ITSM
5 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce