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 22 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 487 480
Rank change year-on-year -107 -7 +31
Contract jobs citing ISEB 37 31 52
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.081% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.25% 0.36% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 31
10th Percentile £400 £308 £183
25th Percentile £463 £344 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -4.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £578 £456 £510
90th Percentile £668 £601 £600
UK median daily rate £515 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +17.60% +2.94% -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 14,549 8,712 10,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.72% 31.57% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,792 5,474 6,433
10th Percentile £350 £300 £325
25th Percentile £437 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £629 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £524 £525
% change year-on-year +0.19% -0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,129 678 708
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £14.48
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £47.67
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -47.24% -13.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £48.84 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +94.19% -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 22 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in England

ISEB
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 22 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 -68 18 £538 -8.51% 5
South East -70 12 £525 +16.67% 5
Midlands - 5 £400 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £400 - 2
South West -39 4 £552 +72.34%
North West -52 1 £550 +34.15% 1
North of England -70 1 £550 +34.15% 1
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 (13.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.11%) Confluence
2 3 (8.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (8.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.51%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.11%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.70%) AWS
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
1 3 (8.11%) Tableau
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
2 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) JIRA
2 5 (13.51%) Selenium
3 4 (10.81%) eggPlant
3 4 (10.81%) JMeter
3 4 (10.81%) Postman
4 3 (8.11%) LoadRunner
4 3 (8.11%) SoapUI
4 3 (8.11%) SonarQube
4 3 (8.11%) Toad
5 2 (5.41%) HP UFT
5 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.70%) GitLab
6 1 (2.70%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.70%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (35.14%) Finance
2 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 11 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (29.73%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Legal
5 3 (8.11%) Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Police
6 2 (5.41%) Law
7 1 (2.70%) Advertising
7 1 (2.70%) Automotive
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Local Government
7 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.70%) Military
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Social Housing
7 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Analyst
2 11 (29.73%) Business Analyst
3 8 (21.62%) Senior
4 7 (18.92%) Lead
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Business Analyst
5 5 (13.51%) Test Analyst
6 4 (10.81%) SAP Analyst
6 4 (10.81%) SAP Test Analyst
6 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
7 3 (8.11%) Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (8.11%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Test Leader
8 2 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) SDLC Business Analyst
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) XML
2 6 (16.22%) Kafka
3 4 (10.81%) .NET
3 4 (10.81%) Web Services
4 3 (8.11%) SOAP
5 2 (5.41%) HTML
5 2 (5.41%) Middleware
5 2 (5.41%) Playwright
5 2 (5.41%) XBRL
6 1 (2.70%) REST
6 1 (2.70%) RESTful
6 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (2.70%) Life Science
2 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.70%) Tandem
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Unix
1 6 (16.22%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (43.24%) Defect Management
3 15 (40.54%) Agile
4 14 (37.84%) SDLC
5 13 (35.14%) Business Analysis
6 12 (32.43%) Software Testing
6 12 (32.43%) Test Automation
7 11 (29.73%) PRINCE2
7 11 (29.73%) Waterfall
8 10 (27.03%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (24.32%) ITIL
10 8 (21.62%) Impact Assessments
10 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (21.62%) Process Improvement
10 8 (21.62%) Workshop Facilitation
11 7 (18.92%) Regression Testing
11 7 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (18.92%) Test Strategy
12 6 (16.22%) Test Scripting
12 6 (16.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (45.95%) SQL
2 9 (24.32%) Java
3 4 (10.81%) Python
4 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (59.46%) ISTQB
2 21 (56.76%) Security Cleared
3 20 (54.05%) SC Cleared
4 16 (43.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (13.51%) Degree
6 4 (10.81%) IIBA
6 4 (10.81%) ISEB Practitioner
6 4 (10.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (8.11%) CBAP
7 3 (8.11%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
8 2 (5.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (2.70%) APMP
9 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
9 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.70%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) COBIT
2 3 (8.11%) GDPR
2 3 (8.11%) ISO 15022
2 3 (8.11%) ISO 20022
3 2 (5.41%) PERC
4 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
1 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Control-M
1 3 (8.11%) HP Fortify
2 1 (2.70%) Ansible
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle
1 9 (24.32%) SAP
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) IBM
3 3 (8.11%) webMethods
4 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.70%) Parasoft
4 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) SOASTA