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 24 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 344 372
Rank change year-on-year -30 +28 +72
Contract jobs citing ISEB 24 8 22
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.060% 0.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.52% 0.24% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 21
10th Percentile £297 £160 £495
25th Percentile £362 £176 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £230 £600
Median % change year-on-year +122.83% -61.67% +16.50%
75th Percentile £622 £359 £650
90th Percentile £675 £475 £700
England median daily rate £525 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% +16.67%

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 4,603 3,329 4,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.37% 25.09% 24.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,276 2,119 2,964
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £750 £774 £770
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 61 127
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.55% -14.43%
75th Percentile £65.88 £56.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% +12.36% -4.30%

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 24 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in London

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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

ISEB
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 24 February 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 -4 3 £650 -
South London -16 1 £363 +57.61%
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 6 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) PaaS
3 2 (8.33%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
1 1 (4.17%) SAP BW
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.17%) NUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Toad
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Legal
5 1 (4.17%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Analyst
2 10 (41.67%) Business Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Information Governance Officer
4 2 (8.33%) Information Officer
4 2 (8.33%) Integration Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Test Leader
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Programme Manager
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
1 3 (12.50%) XML
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.17%) ADO
3 1 (4.17%) ebXML
3 1 (4.17%) Playwright
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (8.33%) NHS
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) SDLC
3 8 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) Scrum
4 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (29.17%) Waterfall
5 6 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (20.83%) Project Delivery
6 5 (20.83%) Software Testing
6 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
6 5 (20.83%) Test Scripting
6 5 (20.83%) User Stories
6 5 (20.83%) Wireframes
7 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
7 4 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
7 4 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (41.67%) Degree
1 10 (41.67%) ISTQB
2 8 (33.33%) CBAP
3 6 (25.00%) IIBA
3 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (8.33%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (4.17%) CITP
7 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
7 1 (4.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix
3 1 (4.17%) HP
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) TOWER Software
3 1 (4.17%) webMethods