ISTQB Advanced Certification Contract Job Trends in East London

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Advanced Level (CTAL) formerly ISEB Advanced
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East London with a requirement for ISTQB Advanced Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB Advanced Certification 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East London 2.94% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East London

ISTQB Advanced Certification 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 East London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24 26 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 23.53% 22.81% 20.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 22 47
10th Percentile £190 £273 £202
25th Percentile £438 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £585
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -8.12% +6.36%
75th Percentile £675 £636 £650
90th Percentile £744 £660 £770
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
London median hourly rate £27.50 £39.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.49% -13.33% +11.11%

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISTQB Advanced Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

ISTQB Advanced Certification job vacancy trend in East London

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB Advanced Certification within the East London region over the 6 months to 7 January 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets - 3 £450 -
ISTQB Advanced Certification
London

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) QA Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft