ISTQB Contracts 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 358 444
Rank change year-on-year +34 +86 +55
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 31 35 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.92% 0.84% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 27
10th Percentile £321 £408 £360
25th Percentile £384 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £594
90th Percentile £562 £738 £760
England median daily rate £450 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.33
25th Percentile - - £51.44
Median hourly rate - - £52.25
75th Percentile - - £53.31
90th Percentile - - £53.58
England median hourly rate £83.50 - £37.93
% change year-on-year - - +78.48%

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 3,360 4,159 5,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.87% 23.61% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,259 2,855 3,755
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £433 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £661 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 108 82
10th Percentile £18.32 £15.07 £19.46
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.43 £24.94
Median hourly rate £26.32 £25.25 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% -53.24% +26.32%
75th Percentile £51.08 £42.75 £71.88
90th Percentile £66.73 £68.23 £87.50
England median hourly rate £28.58 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.76% -22.73% +32.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for ISTQB in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISTQB in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for ISTQB in London

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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 ISTQB within the London region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
West London +13 7 £400 -29.45% 2
Central London -1 4 £395 -22.93% 8
East London - 1 - - 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.23%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 11 (35.48%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.23%) AWS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Stack
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.23%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Firewall
1 1 (3.23%) LAN
1 1 (3.23%) Unified Communications
1 1 (3.23%) WAN
1 1 (3.23%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (3.23%) Data Mart
2 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (51.61%) Selenium
2 11 (35.48%) JIRA
2 11 (35.48%) JUnit
3 7 (22.58%) Zephyr
4 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
5 5 (16.13%) WebDriver
6 4 (12.90%) Appium
6 4 (12.90%) Git
7 3 (9.68%) Postman
7 3 (9.68%) SpecFlow
7 3 (9.68%) TestNG
7 3 (9.68%) TestRail
8 2 (6.45%) JMeter
8 2 (6.45%) NUnit
8 2 (6.45%) Robot Framework
9 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (3.23%) HP UFT
9 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
9 1 (3.23%) Locust
9 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
General
1 15 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Finance
3 6 (19.35%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Back Office
5 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.23%) Front Office
5 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Analyst
2 5 (16.13%) Test Analyst
2 5 (16.13%) Test Manager
2 5 (16.13%) Tester
3 4 (12.90%) QA Engineer
3 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 3 (9.68%) Automation Tester
4 3 (9.68%) QA Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) QA Automation Tester
4 3 (9.68%) QA Tester
4 3 (9.68%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 3 (9.68%) Selenium Tester
4 3 (9.68%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Automation Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Mobile Specialist
5 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) REST
1 3 (9.68%) SOAP
1 3 (9.68%) Web Services
2 2 (6.45%) Playwright
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) FHIR
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) Murex MxML
3 1 (3.23%) pytest
3 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.45%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.23%) Derivative
4 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.23%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) NHS
4 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Android
1 3 (9.68%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Test Automation
2 16 (51.61%) Agile
3 12 (38.71%) Manual Testing
3 12 (38.71%) Security Testing
4 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
4 11 (35.48%) DevOps
5 10 (32.26%) Regression Testing
6 9 (29.03%) Test Strategy
7 8 (25.81%) Software Testing
7 8 (25.81%) Test Scripting
7 8 (25.81%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (22.58%) Validation
9 6 (19.35%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (19.35%) Test Management
9 6 (19.35%) Test Planning
10 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
10 5 (16.13%) Integration Testing
10 5 (16.13%) Migration
11 4 (12.90%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Java
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 4 (12.90%) SQL
3 3 (9.68%) C#
3 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (16.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) ISEB
4 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (58.06%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) EMIR
3 1 (3.23%) HL7
3 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.23%) MiFID
3 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Salesforce
2 3 (9.68%) Duck Creek
2 3 (9.68%) Guidewire
3 2 (6.45%) HP
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.23%) Cerner
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Concur
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) Genesys
4 1 (3.23%) Mitel
4 1 (3.23%) Murex
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Tradeweb
4 1 (3.23%) Workday