ISEB Contract Job Trends in London

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 362 366
Rank change year-on-year -66 +4 +47
Contract jobs citing ISEB 18 7 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.090% 0.052% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% 0.20% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 17
10th Percentile £473 £555 £168
25th Percentile £500 £563 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% +30.56% -11.76%
75th Percentile £639 £638 £596
90th Percentile £725 £692 £608
England median daily rate £525 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,622 3,511 3,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.00% 26.23% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,037 2,371 2,685
10th Percentile £374 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 82 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.98
25th Percentile £25.44 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £25.15 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +109.74% -22.11% -41.29%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -8.36%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ISEB job vacancy trend in London

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ISEB

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB in London over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in London

ISEB
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ISEB

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the London region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Central London - 3 £638 - 1
North London - 1 - -
West London - 1 - -
ISEB
England

ISEB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 3 (16.67%) Tableau
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Selenium
2 4 (22.22%) eggPlant
2 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) JMeter
2 4 (22.22%) Postman
3 3 (16.67%) LoadRunner
3 3 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.11%) HP UFT
4 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.56%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Finance
3 8 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 3 (16.67%) Banking
6 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (11.11%) Police
7 1 (5.56%) Advertising
7 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (5.56%) Law
7 1 (5.56%) Legal
7 1 (5.56%) Local Government
7 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (5.56%) Social Housing
7 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Officer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) Web Services
2 4 (22.22%) XML
3 3 (16.67%) SOAP
4 2 (11.11%) HTML
4 2 (11.11%) Middleware
4 2 (11.11%) Playwright
4 2 (11.11%) XBRL
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
5 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (11.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (5.56%) Life Science
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Tandem
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Unix
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Agile
1 12 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 8 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 8 (44.44%) Waterfall
4 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
5 6 (33.33%) SDLC
6 5 (27.78%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (27.78%) Business Analysis
6 5 (27.78%) Defect Management
6 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (27.78%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (22.22%) API Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
7 4 (22.22%) DevOps
7 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
7 4 (22.22%) Scrum
7 4 (22.22%) Test Management
7 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) Python
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
3 6 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 5 (27.78%) Degree
5 3 (16.67%) IIBA
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.56%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 3 (16.67%) ISO 15022
2 3 (16.67%) ISO 20022
3 2 (11.11%) GDPR
4 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.56%) PERC
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Control-M
1 3 (16.67%) HP Fortify
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) IBM
2 3 (16.67%) SAP
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Parasoft
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) SOASTA