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 9 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 327 338
Rank change year-on-year -85 +11 +89
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 40 36 36
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.26% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.71% 1.01% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 26
10th Percentile £318 £323 £375
25th Percentile £363 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £450 £591
90th Percentile £690 £595 £675
England median daily rate £400 £410 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% -13.68% -5.47%
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 5,617 3,572 3,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.72% 26.13% 24.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,057 2,421 2,693
10th Percentile £373 £341 £350
25th Percentile £455 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 88 67
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.71 £18.03
25th Percentile £26.06 £25.03 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%
75th Percentile £73.00 £35.94 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.40 £68.30
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +114.71% -47.05% -13.64%

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 9 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 9 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
West London -20 3 - -
Central London -21 1 - - 5
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 (17.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.50%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (5.00%) Summit
2 1 (2.50%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
5 2 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
5 2 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (2.50%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (55.00%) JIRA
2 11 (27.50%) Selenium
3 9 (22.50%) Zephyr
4 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (12.50%) JMeter
5 4 (10.00%) TestRail
6 3 (7.50%) LoadRunner
7 2 (5.00%) Appium
7 2 (5.00%) Git
7 2 (5.00%) Gradle
7 2 (5.00%) HP UFT
7 2 (5.00%) Maven
7 2 (5.00%) MSTest
8 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.50%) Gatling
8 1 (2.50%) GitLab
8 1 (2.50%) QADirector
8 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (2.50%) TestDirector
8 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (40.00%) Finance
3 15 (37.50%) Banking
4 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Front Office
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.50%) Arabic Language
7 1 (2.50%) Back Office
7 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Test Manager
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
2 6 (15.00%) Tester
3 5 (12.50%) Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Network Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) QA Tester
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Development Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Test Development Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Playwright
1 3 (7.50%) REST
1 3 (7.50%) XML
2 2 (5.00%) ADO
2 2 (5.00%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) SailPoint
2 2 (5.00%) XSD
3 1 (2.50%) ebXML
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
1 3 (7.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (5.00%) DTCC
2 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Derivative
3 1 (2.50%) IVR
3 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (55.00%) Agile
3 19 (47.50%) Test Strategy
4 18 (45.00%) DevOps
5 16 (40.00%) Defect Management
5 16 (40.00%) Software Testing
6 15 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
6 15 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (32.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (32.50%) Test Planning
8 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
8 12 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (30.00%) Test Management
8 12 (30.00%) Waterfall
9 11 (27.50%) Acceptance Criteria
9 11 (27.50%) Regression Testing
9 11 (27.50%) Scenario Testing
10 10 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (25.00%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) SQL
2 7 (17.50%) Python
3 5 (12.50%) C#
4 4 (10.00%) Java
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.00%) VBA
6 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Degree
2 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
3 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (12.50%) ISEB
5 4 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) IIBA
6 2 (5.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (52.50%) QA
2 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.00%) ISO 20022
3 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.00%) GDPR
4 2 (5.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (5.00%) ISO 15022
4 2 (5.00%) ISO 9001
4 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.50%) EMIR
5 1 (2.50%) MiFID
5 1 (2.50%) NIST
5 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) HP ALM
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.50%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle
3 6 (15.00%) Citrix
4 4 (10.00%) HP
5 2 (5.00%) Avaloq
5 2 (5.00%) Bloomberg
5 2 (5.00%) Murex
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.50%) Genesys
6 1 (2.50%) Informatica
6 1 (2.50%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.50%) SAP