White-Box Testing Contracts

White-Box Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring White-Box Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited White-Box Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 673 825
Rank change year-on-year +101 +152 -115
Contract jobs citing White-Box Testing 12 24 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.043% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.048% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 11
10th Percentile £428 £509 £313
25th Percentile £525 £613 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +36.84% +11.24%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £550
90th Percentile £719 £721 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £375 £395
% change year-on-year +23.33% -5.06% -
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 falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 6 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 12 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
England +74 12 £600 -7.69% 9
UK excluding London +28 7 £463 +23.33% 7
London +73 5 £600 -7.69% 3
Midlands - 5 - - 2
West Midlands - 5 - - 2
South West - 2 £463 -

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 (41.67%) Simulink
1 5 (41.67%) Stateflow
1 5 (41.67%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Bitbucket
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) Subversion
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (41.67%) Automotive
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Control Systems Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Applications Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Penetration Tester
3 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Security Penetration Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Security Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Test Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Algorithms
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Functional Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 5 (41.67%) Integration Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Line Management
3 5 (41.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 5 (41.67%) QMS
3 5 (41.67%) Quality Management
3 5 (41.67%) Software Audit
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) Software Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) UML
3 5 (41.67%) Validation
3 5 (41.67%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (25.00%) Application Security
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C
1 5 (41.67%) MATLAB
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
1 5 (41.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) AUTOSAR
1 5 (41.67%) ISO 26262
1 5 (41.67%) MISRA
1 5 (41.67%) MISRA C
1 5 (41.67%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle