ISTQB Contract Job Trends in London

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 329 348
Rank change year-on-year -80 +19 +81
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 49 40 34
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.87% 1.13% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 24
10th Percentile £321 £324 £365
25th Percentile £361 £350 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £448 £600
90th Percentile £629 £591 £693
England median daily rate £404 £425 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% -12.82% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £64.25 -
% change year-on-year -6.61% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,631 3,544 3,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.91% 26.31% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,047 2,388 2,700
10th Percentile £374 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £735 £749 £768
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 85 69
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.84 £18.08
25th Percentile £26.06 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £25.15 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +112.72% -20.46% -42.51%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £65.60
England median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £48.00
% change year-on-year +110.74% -47.60% -12.73%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ISTQB job vacancy trend in London

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ISTQB

ISTQB
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in London over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ISTQB in London

ISTQB
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ISTQB

ISTQB
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 ISTQB within the London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Central London -17 3 - - 3
West London -23 3 - -
ISTQB
England

ISTQB
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 7 (14.29%) Confluence
2 6 (12.24%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (2.04%) Appian
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (4.08%) Summit
2 1 (2.04%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 22 (44.90%) Azure
2 16 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (20.41%) AWS
4 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
4 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.08%) SaaS
4 2 (4.08%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.04%) Serverless
5 1 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) Network Security
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) LAN
2 1 (2.04%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.04%) WAN
2 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database
1 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
1 3 (6.12%) Tableau
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (40.82%) JIRA
2 18 (36.73%) Selenium
3 10 (20.41%) JMeter
4 8 (16.33%) Jenkins
5 7 (14.29%) Zephyr
6 6 (12.24%) LoadRunner
7 5 (10.20%) Postman
8 4 (8.16%) eggPlant
8 4 (8.16%) GitLab
8 4 (8.16%) HP UFT
8 4 (8.16%) REST Assured
9 3 (6.12%) Cypress.io
9 3 (6.12%) Git
9 3 (6.12%) SoapUI
9 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
9 3 (6.12%) WebDriver
10 2 (4.08%) Appium
10 2 (4.08%) Gradle
10 2 (4.08%) MSTest
10 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 22 (44.90%) Finance
3 18 (36.73%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (34.69%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Front Office
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.04%) Arabic Language
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) Test Manager
2 8 (16.33%) Senior
3 7 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Tester
5 5 (10.20%) Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Lead
5 5 (10.20%) Network Manager
5 5 (10.20%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.08%) Development Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) QA Tester
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Development Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Software Development Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Test Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.33%) Kafka
2 6 (12.24%) XML
3 5 (10.20%) .NET
3 5 (10.20%) REST
4 4 (8.16%) Playwright
4 4 (8.16%) Web Services
5 3 (6.12%) Middleware
5 3 (6.12%) SOAP
6 2 (4.08%) HTML
6 2 (4.08%) SailPoint
6 2 (4.08%) XBRL
6 2 (4.08%) XSD
7 1 (2.04%) ADO
7 1 (2.04%) JSON
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (2.04%) RFC 2544
7 1 (2.04%) Terraform
7 1 (2.04%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) DTCC
3 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.08%) IVR
3 2 (4.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.04%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
2 6 (12.24%) Unix
3 3 (6.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (65.31%) Test Automation
2 27 (55.10%) Agile
3 25 (51.02%) Test Strategy
4 22 (44.90%) End-to-End Testing
5 20 (40.82%) Defect Management
5 20 (40.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (38.78%) DevOps
7 18 (36.73%) Scenario Testing
7 18 (36.73%) User Acceptance Testing
8 17 (34.69%) Software Testing
9 15 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (28.57%) Test Management
11 13 (26.53%) CI/CD
11 13 (26.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (26.53%) Test Planning
12 12 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (24.49%) Waterfall
13 11 (22.45%) Non-Functional Testing
13 11 (22.45%) Regression Testing
14 10 (20.41%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) SQL
2 12 (24.49%) Java
3 11 (22.45%) Python
4 7 (14.29%) C#
4 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.08%) VB.NET
5 2 (4.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.65%) Degree
2 16 (32.65%) SC Cleared
3 12 (24.49%) ISEB
4 9 (18.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (8.16%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.16%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.12%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.08%) IIBA
8 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.04%) CCNA
8 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (48.98%) QA
2 7 (14.29%) ISO 20022
3 4 (8.16%) Data Quality
4 3 (6.12%) ISO 15022
5 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (4.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (4.08%) ISO 9001
5 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (2.04%) EMIR
6 1 (2.04%) GDPR
6 1 (2.04%) MiFID
6 1 (2.04%) NIST
6 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) HP ALM
1 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Ansible
2 3 (6.12%) Control-M
2 3 (6.12%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.04%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Oracle
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.20%) Citrix
4 4 (8.16%) HP
4 4 (8.16%) SAP
5 3 (6.12%) Cisco
5 3 (6.12%) IBM
6 2 (4.08%) Avaloq
6 2 (4.08%) Bloomberg
6 2 (4.08%) Murex
7 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.04%) Genesys
7 1 (2.04%) Informatica
7 1 (2.04%) Micro Focus
7 1 (2.04%) Parasoft
7 1 (2.04%) Qualtrics
7 1 (2.04%) SOASTA
7 1 (2.04%) Verint