White-Box Testing Contracts

White-Box Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for White-Box Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited White-Box Testing over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 692 835
Rank change year-on-year +118 +143 -149
Contract jobs citing White-Box Testing 8 26 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.044% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.048% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 20 12
10th Percentile £379 £522 £173
25th Percentile £403 £613 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £650 £470
Median % change year-on-year -28.85% +38.30% +10.07%
75th Percentile £528 £675 £519
90th Percentile £556 £699 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £375 £395
% change year-on-year +23.33% -5.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - £19.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

White-Box Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,597 53,655 80,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,227 37,238 56,437
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,746 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.98 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +80.00% -8.00%

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 30 April 2024.

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 7 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 30 April 2024. 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 +93 8 £463 -28.85% 3
UK excluding London +62 7 £463 +23.33% 2
West Midlands - 5 - -
Midlands - 5 - -
South West - 2 £463 - 1
Work from Home +130 1 - - 3
London +84 1 - - 1

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:

Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Simulink
1 5 (62.50%) Stateflow
1 5 (62.50%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Bitbucket
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
General
1 5 (62.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Tester
3 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) QA Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Algorithms
1 5 (62.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Functional Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 5 (62.50%) Integration Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Line Management
3 5 (62.50%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Project Management
3 5 (62.50%) QMS
3 5 (62.50%) Quality Management
3 5 (62.50%) Software Audit
3 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Software Testing
3 5 (62.50%) UML
3 5 (62.50%) Validation
3 5 (62.50%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 2 (25.00%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) C
1 5 (62.50%) MATLAB
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 5 (62.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (12.50%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (62.50%) ISO 26262
1 5 (62.50%) MISRA
1 5 (62.50%) MISRA C
2 2 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle