White-Box Testing Contracts

White-Box Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for White-Box Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited White-Box Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 668 839
Rank change year-on-year +98 +171 -152
Contract jobs citing White-Box Testing 9 26 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.045% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.051% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 12
10th Percentile £395 £522 £314
25th Percentile £444 £613 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +36.84% +11.24%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £538
90th Percentile £635 £699 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £375 £465
% change year-on-year +23.33% -19.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 - £19.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

White-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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

White-Box Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing White-Box Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Top 7 Contract 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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +98 9 £550 -15.38% 4
UK excluding London +54 7 £463 +23.33% 3
West Midlands - 5 - -
Midlands - 5 - -
London +84 2 £600 -7.69% 2
South West - 2 £463 -
Work from Home +112 1 - - 2

White-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:

Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Simulink
1 5 (55.56%) Stateflow
1 5 (55.56%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Bitbucket
1 5 (55.56%) Git
1 5 (55.56%) Subversion
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (55.56%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Tester
3 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Algorithms
1 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) Functional Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 5 (55.56%) Integration Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Line Management
4 5 (55.56%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Project Management
4 5 (55.56%) QMS
4 5 (55.56%) Quality Management
4 5 (55.56%) Software Audit
4 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
4 5 (55.56%) UML
4 5 (55.56%) Validation
4 5 (55.56%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) Open Source
6 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C
1 5 (55.56%) MATLAB
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 5 (55.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) CHECK Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) CHECK Team Member
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (55.56%) ISO 26262
1 5 (55.56%) MISRA
1 5 (55.56%) MISRA C
2 2 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle