Black-Box Testing Contracts in England

Black-Box Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Black-Box Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Black-Box Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 614 749
Rank change year-on-year +77 +135 -115
Contract jobs citing Black-Box Testing 14 23 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.048% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.054% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 19
10th Percentile £263 £499 £313
25th Percentile £328 £594 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £650 £425
Median % change year-on-year -40.38% +52.94% -0.47%
75th Percentile £594 £695 £488
90th Percentile £650 £749 £528
UK median daily rate £400 £650 £425
% change year-on-year -38.46% +52.94% +0.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £19.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Black-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Black-Box Testing in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Black-Box Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Black-Box Testing in England

Black-Box Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Black-Box Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Black-Box Testing in England

Black-Box Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Black-Box Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Black-Box Testing in England

Black-Box Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Black-Box Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
London +82 6 £375 -42.31% 5
Midlands +26 5 - - 3
West Midlands +17 5 - - 2
South West - 2 £463 - 1
South East - 1 - -
Black-Box Testing
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Black-Box Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (21.43%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Simulink
1 5 (35.71%) Stateflow
1 5 (35.71%) TargetLink
2 1 (7.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) Bitbucket
2 5 (35.71%) Subversion
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (35.71%) Automotive
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) QA Tester
2 3 (21.43%) Tester
3 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Web Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Algorithms
1 6 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 5 (35.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
1 9 (64.29%) White-Box Testing
2 7 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 5 (35.71%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 5 (35.71%) Integration Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Line Management
4 5 (35.71%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Project Management
4 5 (35.71%) QMS
4 5 (35.71%) Quality Management
4 5 (35.71%) Software Audit
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) UML
4 5 (35.71%) Validation
4 5 (35.71%) Verification and Validation
5 4 (28.57%) Code Quality
5 4 (28.57%) Migration
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C
1 5 (35.71%) MATLAB
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 5 (35.71%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
2 5 (35.71%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (35.71%) ISO 26262
2 5 (35.71%) MISRA
2 5 (35.71%) MISRA C
3 4 (28.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (28.57%) Software Quality Assurance
4 3 (21.43%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle