White-Box Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for White-Box Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited White-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 908 940 1207
Rank change year-on-year +32 +267 -314
Permanent jobs citing White-Box Testing 6 12 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.012% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.013% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 5 12 16
10th Percentile £63,750 £35,250 £41,375
25th Percentile £67,500 £37,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £40,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -36.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £42,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,250 - £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -27.27% +57.14%

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 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%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing White-Box Testing over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for White-Box Testing in the UK

White-Box Testing
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing White-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 +67 6 £70,000 +75.00% 7
London +145 5 £70,000 +75.00% 3
Midlands -6 1 - - 2
UK excluding London -27 1 - - 5
Work from Home - 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 - -

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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Burp Suite
1 4 (66.67%) Metasploit
2 1 (16.67%) Appium
2 1 (16.67%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Security Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Security Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Testing Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Testing Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Penetration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) IoT
1 4 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Kali Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Black-Box Testing
2 4 (66.67%) OWASP
2 4 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Red Team
2 4 (66.67%) Social Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Fintech
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CREST Certified
1 4 (66.67%) OSCE
1 4 (66.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Nessus
1 4 (66.67%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Qualys