ISTQB Foundation Certification Contracts in Scotland

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) formerly ISEB Foundation
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for ISTQB Foundation Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 161 174
Rank change year-on-year +36 +13 -18
Contract jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.070% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% 0.34% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £368 £272 £356
25th Percentile £375 £290 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £325 £425
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -23.53% -
75th Percentile £425 £355 £438
90th Percentile £433 £370 £463
UK median daily rate £550 £489 £428
% change year-on-year +12.53% +14.19% +12.04%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

ISTQB Foundation Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 609 591 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.43% 20.65% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 408 365
10th Percentile £188 £163 £180
25th Percentile £363 £375 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £632 £625
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 14 18
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.65 £20.70
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.99 £23.19
Median hourly rate £40.94 £21.47 £42.57
Median % change year-on-year +90.73% -49.57% +118.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.90 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.70 £65.00 £56.34
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.62
% change year-on-year -25.93% +29.75% +6.94%

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing ISTQB Foundation Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in Scotland

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in Scotland

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in Scotland

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Edinburgh - 2 £425 -
Glasgow - 1 £375 -
ISTQB Foundation Certification
UK

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
1 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) TestComplete
2 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) ATDD
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) SOA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) V-Model
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) VBA
2 2 (66.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland