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

Black-Box Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Black-Box Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 343 384
Rank change year-on-year -99 +41 +45
Contract jobs citing Black-Box Testing 3 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.030% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.034% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile - £508 £370
25th Percentile - £510 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £514 £400
Median % change year-on-year -41.63% +28.50% -8.57%
75th Percentile - £536 £488
90th Percentile - £546 £540
UK median daily rate £300 £381 £400
% change year-on-year -21.31% -4.69% -38.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Process & 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 20,674 11,899 17,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.63% 90.45% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,309 7,359 10,286
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £402 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £677 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,211 895 2,171
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.29 £16.95 £15.43
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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

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

Black-Box Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Black-Box Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Black-Box Testing

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Black-Box Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Black-Box Testing

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 9 June 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
East of England - 2 £300 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Black-Box Testing
UK

Black-Box Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (66.67%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Android Studio
1 2 (66.67%) Appium
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) Sourcetree
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Testing
1 3 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) White-Box Testing
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian