ISTQB Foundation Certification Contracts in Edinburgh

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for ISTQB Foundation Certification 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 69 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - -17
Contract jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.25% - 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.27% - 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £369
25th Percentile £413 - £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £425
75th Percentile £438 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £400 £325 £425
% change year-on-year +23.08% -23.53% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 157 194 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.41% 15.04% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 124 153
10th Percentile £179 £165 £315
25th Percentile £385 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.23% +9.41%
75th Percentile £575 £511 £575
90th Percentile £633 £600 £635
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 5
10th Percentile £15.43 £21.47 £17.01
25th Percentile £16.31 £28.63 £25.50
Median hourly rate £17.75 £52.25 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.03% +10.00% +171.43%
75th Percentile £45.00 £64.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate £40.94 £21.67 £39.99
% change year-on-year +88.92% -45.81% +8.82%

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in Edinburgh

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in Edinburgh

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Test Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ATDD
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) V-Model
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VBA
1 2 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland