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 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 350 388
Rank change year-on-year +23 +38 +118
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 52 23 35
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.15% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.37% 0.58% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 16 25
10th Percentile £325 £215 £413
25th Percentile £356 £380 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -12.11% -4.04% +7.61%
75th Percentile £604 £575 £575
90th Percentile £713 £688 £615
England median daily rate £423 £488 £498
% change year-on-year -13.33% -2.01% +11.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +305.56%

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 3,787 3,961 4,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.48% 25.36% 23.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,597 2,522 3,167
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £650 £675
90th Percentile £741 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 55 100
10th Percentile £19.46 £20.20 £18.99
25th Percentile - £31.44 £21.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.91 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.99% -21.30% +18.33%
75th Percentile £41.56 £64.13 £69.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.54 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.19 £52.50
% change year-on-year -51.81% -0.59% +16.67%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 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
Central London - 5 £598 - 25
East London - 2 £445 -
North London - 1 - - 2
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 (13.46%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Aladdin
1 2 (3.85%) Algo Collateral
1 2 (3.85%) Eagle PACE
1 2 (3.85%) Markit EDM
1 2 (3.85%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.92%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.92%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (34.62%) Azure
2 13 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (13.46%) AWS
4 6 (11.54%) GitHub
4 6 (11.54%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.85%) PaaS
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS
6 2 (3.85%) Serverless
6 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.85%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.92%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.92%) GCP
7 1 (1.92%) Google Play
7 1 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.92%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 1 (1.92%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.92%) Power BI
2 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.92%) SAP BW
2 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (55.77%) JIRA
2 22 (42.31%) Selenium
3 9 (17.31%) TestRail
4 8 (15.38%) Jenkins
5 7 (13.46%) JMeter
5 7 (13.46%) JUnit
5 7 (13.46%) Zephyr
6 6 (11.54%) Cucumber
7 5 (9.62%) WebDriver
8 4 (7.69%) Git
8 4 (7.69%) TestNG
9 3 (5.77%) Appium
9 3 (5.77%) Locust
9 3 (5.77%) MSTest
10 2 (3.85%) Cypress.io
10 2 (3.85%) NUnit
10 2 (3.85%) Postman
10 2 (3.85%) SpecFlow
11 1 (1.92%) TestComplete
11 1 (1.92%) Xcode
General
1 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 17 (32.69%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (13.46%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Banking
5 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.85%) Front Office
6 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Billing
7 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.92%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Tester
2 10 (19.23%) Senior
3 9 (17.31%) Automation Tester
4 8 (15.38%) Analyst
4 8 (15.38%) Test Manager
5 7 (13.46%) Lead
5 7 (13.46%) QA Tester
5 7 (13.46%) Test Analyst
5 7 (13.46%) Test Leader
6 6 (11.54%) QA Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Automation Tester
7 5 (9.62%) Senior Tester
7 5 (9.62%) Test Engineer
8 4 (7.69%) QA Automation Tester
8 4 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
9 3 (5.77%) Selenium Automation Tester
9 3 (5.77%) Selenium Tester
10 2 (3.85%) Salesforce Analyst
10 2 (3.85%) Salesforce Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) REST
2 9 (17.31%) SOAP
3 6 (11.54%) Web Services
3 6 (11.54%) XML
4 4 (7.69%) JSON
5 2 (3.85%) Gherkin
5 2 (3.85%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (3.85%) Playwright
5 2 (3.85%) RESTful
5 2 (3.85%) Swagger
6 1 (1.92%) ADO
6 1 (1.92%) EDI
6 1 (1.92%) FHIR
6 1 (1.92%) React Native
6 1 (1.92%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.62%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.77%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Derivative
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) NHS
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) Tandem
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Android
1 4 (7.69%) Apple iOS
1 4 (7.69%) Linux
1 4 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (61.54%) Test Automation
2 27 (51.92%) Agile
3 25 (48.08%) DevOps
4 17 (32.69%) Test Management
4 17 (32.69%) Test Strategy
5 15 (28.85%) End-to-End Testing
6 14 (26.92%) CI/CD
6 14 (26.92%) Test Scripting
7 13 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 13 (25.00%) Validation
8 10 (19.23%) Defect Management
8 10 (19.23%) Regression Testing
8 10 (19.23%) Software Testing
8 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (17.31%) System Integration Testing
9 9 (17.31%) Test Planning
10 8 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (13.46%) Scenario Testing
11 7 (13.46%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) SQL
2 9 (17.31%) Java
3 8 (15.38%) Python
4 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.62%) C#
6 2 (3.85%) Ruby
7 1 (1.92%) C
7 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.54%) Degree
5 4 (7.69%) ISEB
6 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.92%) CBAP
7 1 (1.92%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (48.08%) QA
2 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 2 (3.85%) SLA
4 1 (1.92%) HL7
4 1 (1.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.92%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) HP
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Salesforce
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle
4 3 (5.77%) Duck Creek
4 3 (5.77%) Guidewire
5 2 (3.85%) GoldenSource
5 2 (3.85%) SAP
5 2 (3.85%) SmartStream
5 2 (3.85%) Workday
6 1 (1.92%) Apple
6 1 (1.92%) Cerner
6 1 (1.92%) Google
6 1 (1.92%) webMethods