ISTQB Contracts in England

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 456 479
Rank change year-on-year +72 +23 -42
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 91 93 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.17% 0.81% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 76 118
10th Percentile £313 £345 £347
25th Percentile £384 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £508 £590 £575
90th Percentile £580 £650 £644
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - £52.00
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £83.50 - £52.00
% change year-on-year - - +144.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,745 11,514 12,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.20% 30.53% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,873 7,107 8,559
10th Percentile £281 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £654
90th Percentile £713 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 499 1,014 647
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £14.40
25th Percentile £20.24 £20.03 £21.88
Median hourly rate £30.32 £41.27 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.52% -24.97% +32.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £77.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.29
% change year-on-year -25.00% -27.65% +24.24%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in England.

Daily rate trend for ISTQB in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in England over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISTQB in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in England.

Hourly rate trend for ISTQB in England

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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 ISTQB within the England region over the 6 months to 18 June 2025. 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
South East +54 32 £450 -18.18% 72
London +43 27 £400 -27.27% 110
North of England +23 15 £450 +9.76% 56
North West - 14 £450 - 36
South West +36 9 £363 -14.71% 51
Midlands +7 6 £363 -9.38% 36
West Midlands +4 6 £363 -9.38% 19
East of England +25 1 £600 +37.14% 34
Yorkshire - 1 £450 - 14
ISTQB
UK

ISTQB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.59%) Confluence
2 5 (5.49%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.10%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.20%) Maximo
2 2 (2.20%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (2.20%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.10%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.58%) Azure
2 11 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.49%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (3.30%) AWS
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Stack
5 2 (2.20%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.20%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.20%) SaaS
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.10%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.10%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) GitHub
6 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.10%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (18.68%) LAN
1 17 (18.68%) LTE
1 17 (18.68%) WAN
2 16 (17.58%) ATM
2 16 (17.58%) Ethernet
2 16 (17.58%) Frame Relay
2 16 (17.58%) GPRS
2 16 (17.58%) GSM
2 16 (17.58%) MPLS
2 16 (17.58%) SAN
2 16 (17.58%) SDH
2 16 (17.58%) UMTS
2 16 (17.58%) VPN
2 16 (17.58%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.10%) 3G
3 1 (1.10%) 4G
3 1 (1.10%) 5G
3 1 (1.10%) Firewall
3 1 (1.10%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.10%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.10%) Big Data
2 1 (1.10%) Data Mart
2 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.10%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 25 (27.47%) Selenium
2 23 (25.27%) JIRA
3 14 (15.38%) TestRail
4 12 (13.19%) JUnit
5 11 (12.09%) JMeter
6 10 (10.99%) Jenkins
7 8 (8.79%) Git
8 7 (7.69%) Zephyr
9 6 (6.59%) Postman
9 6 (6.59%) TestNG
10 5 (5.49%) LoadRunner
11 4 (4.40%) Appium
11 4 (4.40%) GitLab
11 4 (4.40%) REST Assured
11 4 (4.40%) Toad
11 4 (4.40%) WebDriver
12 3 (3.30%) Travis CI
13 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
13 2 (2.20%) Robot Framework
13 2 (2.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (54.95%) Social Skills
2 31 (34.07%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (19.78%) Finance
3 18 (19.78%) Telecoms
4 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Banking
7 2 (2.20%) Local Government
8 1 (1.10%) Back Office
8 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.10%) Front Office
8 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Military
8 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Analyst
2 24 (26.37%) Test Analyst
3 23 (25.27%) Test Engineer
4 15 (16.48%) IP Engineer
4 15 (16.48%) Test Manager
4 15 (16.48%) Tester
5 7 (7.69%) SAP Analyst
5 7 (7.69%) SAP Test Analyst
6 6 (6.59%) Lead
6 6 (6.59%) QA Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Senior
7 5 (5.49%) IP Network Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Network Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Software Tester
8 3 (3.30%) Automation Tester
8 3 (3.30%) QA Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) QA Leader
8 3 (3.30%) QA Tester
8 3 (3.30%) SAP Manager
8 3 (3.30%) SAP Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) XML
2 4 (4.40%) Playwright
2 4 (4.40%) Web Services
3 3 (3.30%) REST
3 3 (3.30%) SOAP
4 1 (1.10%) .NET
4 1 (1.10%) Kafka
4 1 (1.10%) Murex MxML
4 1 (1.10%) pytest
4 1 (1.10%) SAP PI
4 1 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.20%) EPoS
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.10%) Derivative
5 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.10%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.10%) NHS
5 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) PKI
5 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.08%) Unix
2 17 (18.68%) Linux
3 4 (4.40%) Windows
4 2 (2.20%) Android
4 2 (2.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (45.05%) Test Automation
1 41 (45.05%) Test Strategy
2 40 (43.96%) Agile
3 37 (40.66%) Regression Testing
4 36 (39.56%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (30.77%) Test Management
6 25 (27.47%) Test Scripting
7 24 (26.37%) User Acceptance Testing
8 22 (24.18%) DevOps
8 22 (24.18%) Manual Testing
9 21 (23.08%) CI/CD
10 20 (21.98%) Software Testing
11 18 (19.78%) Project Management
12 16 (17.58%) End-to-End Testing
12 16 (17.58%) Fault Management
12 16 (17.58%) Integration Testing
13 15 (16.48%) Defect Management
13 15 (16.48%) Performance Testing
13 15 (16.48%) System Integration Testing
14 14 (15.38%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.16%) Java
2 15 (16.48%) Python
3 14 (15.38%) SQL
4 4 (4.40%) Bash
5 3 (3.30%) C#
5 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.10%) COBOL
6 1 (1.10%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 41 (45.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 27 (29.67%) ISEB
3 23 (25.27%) Security Cleared
4 16 (17.58%) CCNP
4 16 (17.58%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (15.38%) SC Cleared
6 13 (14.29%) Degree
7 10 (10.99%) DV Cleared
8 9 (9.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (5.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 3 (3.30%) CEH
10 3 (3.30%) CISSP
11 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (35.16%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.10%) EMIR
2 1 (1.10%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.10%) MiFID
2 1 (1.10%) NIST
2 1 (1.10%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) HP ALM
3 3 (3.30%) Kibana
4 2 (2.20%) Grafana
4 2 (2.20%) Terraform
5 1 (1.10%) Ansible
5 1 (1.10%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.10%) OPNET
5 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (25.27%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.78%) Cisco
3 17 (18.68%) Juniper
4 10 (10.99%) SAP
5 5 (5.49%) HP
6 4 (4.40%) Oracle
6 4 (4.40%) webMethods
7 3 (3.30%) Duck Creek
7 3 (3.30%) Guidewire
7 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.20%) IBM
9 1 (1.10%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.10%) Dell
9 1 (1.10%) Ericsson
9 1 (1.10%) Genesys
9 1 (1.10%) Micro Focus
9 1 (1.10%) Mitel
9 1 (1.10%) Murex
9 1 (1.10%) Tradeweb
9 1 (1.10%) VMware