Black-Box Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Black-Box Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 301 348 468
Rank change year-on-year +47 +120 +147
Contract jobs citing Black-Box Testing 1 1 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.007% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.007% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £522
25th Percentile £518 - £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.58%
75th Percentile £553 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £350 £363 £650
% change year-on-year -3.45% -44.23% +73.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Black-Box Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Black-Box Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Black-Box Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Black-Box Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Black-Box Testing.

Black-Box Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Black-Box Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow