ISEB Contract Job Trends in England

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 469 478
Rank change year-on-year -121 +9 +45
Contract jobs citing ISEB 36 34 50
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.079% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% 0.39% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 32
10th Percentile £400 £308 £185
25th Percentile £431 £356 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £444
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +1.41% -11.25%
75th Percentile £573 £531 £520
90th Percentile £674 £595 £600
UK median daily rate £514 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +14.22% +5.88% -12.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

ISEB 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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,538 8,722 10,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.73% 31.51% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,802 5,461 6,476
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,123 674 757
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £15.10
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.55 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +106.76% -41.51% -21.82%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISEB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

ISEB job vacancy trend in England

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISEB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISEB

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB in England over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISEB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ISEB

ISEB
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the England region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
London -59 18 £525 -10.64% 6
South East -72 12 £525 +16.67% 5
Midlands - 5 £400 - 5
West Midlands - 5 £400 - 3
South West -48 4 £552 +72.34%
North West -54 1 £550 +34.15%
North of England -70 1 £550 +34.15%
ISEB
UK

ISEB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (13.89%) Confluence
2 4 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (8.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 3 (8.33%) Tableau
2 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) eggPlant
2 3 (8.33%) JMeter
2 3 (8.33%) LoadRunner
2 3 (8.33%) Postman
2 3 (8.33%) Selenium
2 3 (8.33%) SoapUI
2 3 (8.33%) SonarQube
2 3 (8.33%) Toad
3 2 (5.56%) HP UFT
4 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Legal
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Police
6 1 (2.78%) Advertising
6 1 (2.78%) Automotive
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Local Government
6 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.78%) Military
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Social Housing
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Analyst
2 12 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 8 (22.22%) Senior
4 7 (19.44%) Lead
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Senior Business Analyst
5 5 (13.89%) Test Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) SAP Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) SAP Test Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Test Leader
7 3 (8.33%) Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) IT Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) SDLC Business Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) XML
2 5 (13.89%) Kafka
3 3 (8.33%) .NET
3 3 (8.33%) SOAP
3 3 (8.33%) Web Services
4 2 (5.56%) HTML
4 2 (5.56%) Middleware
4 2 (5.56%) XBRL
5 1 (2.78%) ADO
5 1 (2.78%) ebXML
5 1 (2.78%) Playwright
5 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (2.78%) Life Science
2 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.78%) Tandem
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 5 (13.89%) Unix
3 3 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Agile
1 16 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (41.67%) Defect Management
3 13 (36.11%) Business Analysis
3 13 (36.11%) SDLC
3 13 (36.11%) Software Testing
4 11 (30.56%) Waterfall
5 10 (27.78%) PRINCE2
5 10 (27.78%) Test Automation
6 9 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 8 (22.22%) ITIL
7 8 (22.22%) Process Improvement
7 8 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (19.44%) Acceptance Criteria
8 7 (19.44%) Impact Assessments
8 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (19.44%) Test Strategy
8 7 (19.44%) User Stories
9 6 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Java
3 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.33%) Python
4 2 (5.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (58.33%) ISTQB
2 20 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 19 (52.78%) SC Cleared
4 17 (47.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (13.89%) Degree
5 5 (13.89%) IIBA
6 4 (11.11%) CBAP
6 4 (11.11%) ISEB Practitioner
6 4 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (2.78%) APMP
8 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) COBIT
2 3 (8.33%) ISO 15022
2 3 (8.33%) ISO 20022
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.78%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Control-M
1 3 (8.33%) HP Fortify
2 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) SAP
2 8 (22.22%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) IBM
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) webMethods
4 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.78%) Citrix
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow