White-Box Testing Contracts

White-Box Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring White-Box Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited White-Box Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 574 692
Rank change year-on-year +57 +118 +143
Contract jobs citing White-Box Testing 3 8 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.018% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.021% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 20
10th Percentile - £379 £522
25th Percentile £438 £403 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -28.85% +38.30%
75th Percentile £638 £528 £675
90th Percentile £713 £556 £699
UK excluding London median daily rate - £463 £375
% change year-on-year - +23.33% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

White-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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

White-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing White-Box Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing White-Box Testing.

Daily rate trend for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing White-Box Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing White-Box Testing.

Hourly rate trend for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing White-Box Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +52 3 £475 +2.70% 77
London +40 3 £475 - 8

White-Box Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Application Security
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Key Management
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) CASB
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto