Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 554 547
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 -81
Contract jobs citing ISEB 60 166 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 1.02% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 122 236
10th Percentile £223 £301 £364
25th Percentile £400 £389 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £530
90th Percentile £635 £617 £616
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £425 £448
% change year-on-year +1.18% -5.03% +17.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.63
25th Percentile - £67.50 £25.52
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £29.62
Median % change year-on-year - +153.21% -42.20%
75th Percentile - £82.50 £32.78
90th Percentile - - £34.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £24.24
% change year-on-year - +209.41% -52.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ISEB 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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISEB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISEB.

Daily rate trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISEB.

Hourly rate trend for ISEB in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +26 47 £460 +2.22% 13
UK excluding London +26 36 £430 +1.18% 10
Work from Home +81 26 £500 +11.11% 5
London +52 19 £550 +4.76% 5
South East +6 13 £430 -2.49% 4
Midlands +12 10 £400 -5.21% 1
Scotland +37 7 £469 +23.36%
East Midlands +19 6 £525 +31.25%
West Midlands +18 4 £400 -5.88% 1
South West +21 3 £617 +45.06% 1
North of England +22 2 £425 +3.03% 1
North West +8 2 £425 +6.25%
Wales +16 1 £160 - 1

ISEB
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (13.33%) Azure
2 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.33%) SaaS
4 2 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.33%) IaaS
4 2 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (1.67%) AWS
5 1 (1.67%) Boomi
5 1 (1.67%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.67%) dbt
5 1 (1.67%) Miro
5 1 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.33%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) JIRA
2 8 (13.33%) Selenium
3 6 (10.00%) JMeter
4 4 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 4 (6.67%) Git
5 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (5.00%) SoapUI
5 3 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (5.00%) Subversion
5 3 (5.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.33%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.33%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.67%) Appium
7 1 (1.67%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.67%) Postman
7 1 (1.67%) TestComplete
7 1 (1.67%) TestNG
General
1 22 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Finance
2 11 (18.33%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.33%) Legal
4 7 (11.67%) Law
5 6 (10.00%) Marketing
6 5 (8.33%) Banking
7 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.33%) Prime Brokerage
8 2 (3.33%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
8 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (41.67%) Analyst
2 11 (18.33%) Business Analyst
3 10 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 10 (16.67%) Test Manager
4 9 (15.00%) Lead
5 7 (11.67%) Test Leader
6 6 (10.00%) Senior
6 6 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) QA Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Functional Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Functional Test Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Performance Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Performance Test Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Test Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Service Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Service Transition Manager
8 3 (5.00%) Test Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Transition Manager
9 2 (3.33%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) XML
2 2 (3.33%) .NET
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.33%) SOAP
2 2 (3.33%) Web Services
3 1 (1.67%) JSON
3 1 (1.67%) Middleware
3 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (6.67%) Equities
2 4 (6.67%) NHS
3 3 (5.00%) PACS
4 2 (3.33%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.67%) DTCC
5 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
1 3 (5.00%) Unix
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) Test Automation
2 19 (31.67%) Agile
3 17 (28.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 16 (26.67%) DevOps
5 14 (23.33%) Integration Testing
5 14 (23.33%) Software Testing
6 12 (20.00%) Test Management
7 11 (18.33%) Impact Assessments
7 11 (18.33%) Test Strategy
8 10 (16.67%) Performance Testing
9 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (15.00%) Project Management
9 9 (15.00%) System Integration Testing
10 8 (13.33%) Test Scripting
11 7 (11.67%) Business Analysis
11 7 (11.67%) Data Protection
11 7 (11.67%) Defect Management
11 7 (11.67%) Non-Functional Testing
11 7 (11.67%) PRINCE2
12 6 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) SQL
2 8 (13.33%) Java
3 5 (8.33%) C#
4 3 (5.00%) C++
4 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.00%) Python
5 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.33%) VBA
5 2 (3.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (48.33%) ISTQB
2 17 (28.33%) Security Cleared
3 14 (23.33%) Degree
4 13 (21.67%) SC Cleared
5 7 (11.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 3 (5.00%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (3.33%) CBAP
9 1 (1.67%) APMP
9 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.67%) IIBA
9 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) QA
2 7 (11.67%) GDPR
3 4 (6.67%) HL7
4 3 (5.00%) COBIT
5 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (3.33%) PMO
6 1 (1.67%) ISO 9000
6 1 (1.67%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) HP ALM
1 2 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Oracle
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.33%) HP
3 2 (3.33%) SAP
4 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.67%) Dell
4 1 (1.67%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.67%) Workday