ISTQB Contracts in the City of London

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 112 164
Rank change year-on-year -3 +52 +10
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 4 14 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.64% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.93% 3.13% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £344 £447 £438
25th Percentile £362 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +10.53% +2.10%
75th Percentile £424 £575 £500
90th Percentile £440 £613 £560
Central London median daily rate £395 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -24.76% +10.53% +5.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

ISTQB falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 430 447 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.47% 20.35% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 293 409
10th Percentile £404 £382 £375
25th Percentile £459 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £723
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.49% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £23.62 - £18.06
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.58% +13.19%
75th Percentile £72.81 £24.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.88 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
% change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +13.19%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for ISTQB in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISTQB in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Coordinator
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Test Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Test Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Workday Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Case Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Concur
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) Workday