White-Box Testing Contract Job Trends

White-Box Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring White-Box Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 518 570
Rank change year-on-year -111 +52 +89
Contract jobs citing White-Box Testing 4 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.010% 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.011% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile - - £411
25th Percentile - £438 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% -17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £388 £638 £650
90th Percentile £440 £713 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 - £463
% change year-on-year - - +23.33%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.50

All Process & 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 41,363 26,184 36,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.68% 91.01% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,810 16,717 23,641
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,496 1,118 2,535
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.98 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.85 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.27% -23.70% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.19 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.14 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

White-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

White-Box Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

White-Box Testing
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing White-Box Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing White-Box Testing

White-Box Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing White-Box Testing over the 6 months to 3 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing White-Box Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing White-Box Testing

White-Box Testing
Top 5 Contract Job 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 3 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
England -119 4 £300 -36.84% 6
UK excluding London - 3 £300 - 5
East of England - 2 £300 -
London -85 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £450 - 2

White-Box Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (50.00%) TestFlight
2 1 (25.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) NGFW
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Appium
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Android Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Sourcetree
2 2 (50.00%) Xcode
3 1 (25.00%) HP UFT
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (25.00%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) Rundeck
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Mellanox
2 1 (25.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (25.00%) VMware