Black-Box Testing Jobs

Black-Box Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Black-Box Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Black-Box Testing over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 705 876 329
Rank change year-on-year +171 -547 +887
Permanent jobs citing Black-Box Testing 7 14 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.014% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.016% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 12
10th Percentile £29,400 £53,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £41,851 £55,313 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +65.63% -34.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £42,500
90th Percentile - £79,125 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £31,500 £57,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -45.22% +43.75% -22.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Black-Box Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,420 85,138 94,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.82% 85.22% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,605 59,872 55,912
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,089 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Black-Box Testing in the UK

Black-Box Testing
Top 8 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 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +138 5 £65,000 -1.89% 38
UK excluding London +184 3 £31,500 -45.22% 6
London +107 3 £65,000 -7.14% 33
Work from Home - 2 £65,000 - 12
South West - 1 £31,500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £29,750 -
North of England - 1 £29,750 - 1
Scotland - 1 £60,000 - 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) TestRail
General
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Embedded Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Software Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Testing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
1 6 (85.71%) White-Box Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Practice Management
4 2 (28.57%) Agile Testing
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Reuters