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 4 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 332 350
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 +73
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 50 23 39
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.99% 0.71% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 20 28
10th Percentile £341 £318 £385
25th Percentile £363 £383 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -27.27% +5.77%
75th Percentile £494 £463 £663
90th Percentile £592 £596 £738
England median daily rate £425 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +5.00%

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 5,038 3,218 4,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.51% 25.60% 24.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,595 2,166 2,874
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £656
90th Percentile £738 £756 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 60 112
10th Percentile £20.68 £19.20 £14.37
25th Percentile £25.21 £22.27 £20.22
Median hourly rate £53.50 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.04% +16.28% -50.00%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.50 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.72 £65.68
England median hourly rate £47.50 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% +10.00% -23.81%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -15 5 £488 +23.42% 4
East London - 5 £450 -
West London -26 3 - -
South London - 1 £363 -
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 3 (6.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.00%) Aladdin
3 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) Azure
2 17 (34.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.00%) AWS
3 6 (12.00%) GitHub
4 4 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.00%) Star Schema
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (56.00%) JIRA
2 12 (24.00%) Selenium
3 8 (16.00%) JMeter
4 7 (14.00%) Zephyr
5 6 (12.00%) Cypress.io
6 5 (10.00%) Postman
6 5 (10.00%) TestRail
7 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
8 3 (6.00%) GitLab
9 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
9 2 (4.00%) Git
9 2 (4.00%) LoadRunner
9 2 (4.00%) MSTest
9 2 (4.00%) REST Assured
9 2 (4.00%) Robot Framework
10 1 (2.00%) NUnit
10 1 (2.00%) SpecFlow
10 1 (2.00%) Subversion
10 1 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (2.00%) TestNG
General
1 28 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (44.00%) Finance
3 17 (34.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (24.00%) Banking
5 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.00%) Legal
7 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.00%) Military
7 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Back Office
8 1 (2.00%) Billing
8 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Front Office
8 1 (2.00%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Law
8 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Senior
1 12 (24.00%) Test Manager
2 11 (22.00%) Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Test Analyst
3 8 (16.00%) Tester
4 7 (14.00%) Lead
5 6 (12.00%) Test Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Test Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Automation Tester
8 3 (6.00%) QA Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) QA Leader
8 3 (6.00%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Test Leader
9 2 (4.00%) Financial Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) Integration Tester
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Automation Tester
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Test Manager
9 2 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) Playwright
2 4 (8.00%) REST
3 2 (4.00%) .NET
3 2 (4.00%) SailPoint
3 2 (4.00%) XML
4 1 (2.00%) ADO
4 1 (2.00%) CSS
4 1 (2.00%) ebXML
4 1 (2.00%) HTML
4 1 (2.00%) JSON
4 1 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.00%) Next.js
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.00%) pytest
4 1 (2.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) RESTful
4 1 (2.00%) SOAP
4 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Derivative
2 3 (6.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) AS400
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.00%) iSeries
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.00%) Tandem
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) Agile
2 32 (64.00%) Test Automation
3 24 (48.00%) DevOps
4 23 (46.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 19 (38.00%) Defect Management
6 18 (36.00%) CI/CD
7 17 (34.00%) Test Strategy
8 16 (32.00%) Software Testing
8 16 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (32.00%) Test Management
9 15 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
10 13 (26.00%) Manual Testing
10 13 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (26.00%) Scrum
11 12 (24.00%) Integration Testing
12 11 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (22.00%) Regression Testing
12 11 (22.00%) Waterfall
13 10 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
14 9 (18.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) SQL
2 9 (18.00%) Python
3 5 (10.00%) C#
3 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.00%) Java
4 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.00%) Bash
5 1 (2.00%) C
5 1 (2.00%) C++
5 1 (2.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) Degree
3 7 (14.00%) ISEB
4 5 (10.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 5 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.00%) CFA
6 1 (2.00%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (62.00%) QA
2 5 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (8.00%) NIST
4 3 (6.00%) GDPR
5 2 (4.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (4.00%) WCAG
6 1 (2.00%) ISO 15022
6 1 (2.00%) ISO 20022
6 1 (2.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) HP ALM
1 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.00%) Oracle
3 5 (10.00%) HP
4 3 (6.00%) SmartStream
5 2 (4.00%) IBM
5 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) Citrix
6 1 (2.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.00%) Informatica
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce