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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 901 318 1204
Rank change year-on-year -583 +886 -317
Permanent jobs citing Black-Box Testing 13 1,046 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 1.07% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 1.12% 0.021%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 13
10th Percentile - £35,250 £52,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £37,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £40,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -42.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £72,500 £42,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,500 - £89,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +43.75% -44.83% +75.76%

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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
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 28 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 28 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 -522 13 £70,000 +75.00% 13
West Midlands -139 7 £57,500 +43.75% 2
Midlands -186 7 £57,500 +43.75% 3
UK excluding London -526 7 £57,500 +43.75% 7
London -14 6 £70,000 +75.00% 3

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 (7.69%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Wireless
2 4 (30.77%) Bluetooth
2 4 (30.77%) Ethernet
2 4 (30.77%) FlexRay
2 4 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Burp Suite
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) Metasploit
2 2 (15.38%) Appium
2 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Bugzilla
3 1 (7.69%) Calabash
3 1 (7.69%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
3 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Postman
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
3 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.69%) TestRail
3 1 (7.69%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.69%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (30.77%) Automotive
1 4 (30.77%) Marketing
2 3 (23.08%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
1 4 (30.77%) Test Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Security Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Security Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Testing Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Testing Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Penetration Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) IoT
2 4 (30.77%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
2 4 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Kali Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Penetration Testing
2 7 (53.85%) Systems Engineering
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 5 (38.46%) White-Box Testing
5 4 (30.77%) API Testing
5 4 (30.77%) OWASP
5 4 (30.77%) Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) Red Team
5 4 (30.77%) Social Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Threat Modelling
6 3 (23.08%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
6 3 (23.08%) Logistics
6 3 (23.08%) Security Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
8 1 (7.69%) BDD
8 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
8 1 (7.69%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) C
2 3 (23.08%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CREST Certified
1 4 (30.77%) OSCE
1 4 (30.77%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) JTAG
2 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Nessus
1 4 (30.77%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Qualys
2 3 (23.08%) Lauterbach