Black-Box Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Black-Box Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Black-Box Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 864 334 1209
Rank change year-on-year -530 +875 -326
Permanent jobs citing Black-Box Testing 14 1,045 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 1.03% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 1.08% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 10 12 12
10th Percentile £53,750 £35,250 £32,275
25th Percentile £55,313 £37,500 £48,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £40,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +65.63% -34.69% +13.95%
75th Percentile £72,500 £42,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,125 - £90,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +43.75% -33.33% +60.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Black-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Black-Box Testing in the UK

Black-Box Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Black-Box Testing.

Salary trend for Black-Box Testing in the UK

Black-Box Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Black-Box Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Black-Box Testing in the UK

Black-Box Testing
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Black-Box Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -502 14 £66,250 +65.63% 6
London -43 7 £70,000 +75.00% 1
West Midlands -128 7 £57,500 +43.75%
Midlands -186 7 £57,500 +43.75% 2
UK excluding London -513 7 £57,500 +43.75% 4

Black-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 (7.14%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Wireless
2 4 (28.57%) Bluetooth
2 4 (28.57%) Ethernet
2 4 (28.57%) FlexRay
2 4 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Burp Suite
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) Metasploit
2 2 (14.29%) Appium
2 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Bugzilla
3 1 (7.14%) Calabash
3 1 (7.14%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
3 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.14%) TestRail
3 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (28.57%) Automotive
1 4 (28.57%) Marketing
2 3 (21.43%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
1 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Security Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Security Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Testing Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Testing Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Manual Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (7.14%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.14%) QA Manual Tester
4 1 (7.14%) QA Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Penetration Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) IoT
2 4 (28.57%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.14%) Media Streaming
3 1 (7.14%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (7.14%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Kali Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Android
2 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Penetration Testing
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) White-Box Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 4 (28.57%) API Testing
5 4 (28.57%) OWASP
5 4 (28.57%) Project Management
5 4 (28.57%) Red Team
5 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Social Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (21.43%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 3 (21.43%) Logistics
6 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Scrum
8 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) C
2 3 (21.43%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CREST Certified
1 4 (28.57%) OSCE
1 4 (28.57%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) JTAG
1 3 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Nessus
1 4 (28.57%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Qualys
2 3 (21.43%) Lauterbach
3 1 (7.14%) Hitachi