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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 357 437
Rank change year-on-year +22 +80 +76
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 37 34 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.21% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.04% 0.87% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 20
10th Percentile £323 £370 £362
25th Percentile £350 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.56% +4.17%
75th Percentile £450 £596 £535
90th Percentile £595 £680 £584
England median daily rate £411 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -13.37% -5.00% +11.11%
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 £64.25 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +218.18%

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 3,560 3,904 5,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.32% 24.09% 22.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,394 2,682 3,615
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £430 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £790
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 71 80
10th Percentile £18.65 £17.88 £18.50
25th Percentile - £22.00 £34.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.62 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.46% -42.51% +35.80%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £87.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

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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 14 August 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 14 August 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 0 5 £395 -30.34%
Central London -3 4 £450 -6.49% 3
East London - 1 - -
North London - 1 - -
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England

ISTQB
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 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.70%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Eagle PACE
2 1 (2.70%) Markit EDM
2 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 9 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.41%) BrowserStack
4 2 (5.41%) GitHub
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.70%) Google Play
5 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.70%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Firewall
1 1 (2.70%) LAN
1 1 (2.70%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.70%) WAN
1 1 (2.70%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.70%) Big Data
2 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) Selenium
2 14 (37.84%) JIRA
3 9 (24.32%) JUnit
3 9 (24.32%) Zephyr
4 6 (16.22%) Jenkins
5 5 (13.51%) Appium
5 5 (13.51%) TestRail
5 5 (13.51%) WebDriver
6 4 (10.81%) Git
6 4 (10.81%) TestNG
7 3 (8.11%) Cucumber
7 3 (8.11%) JMeter
7 3 (8.11%) Postman
7 3 (8.11%) SpecFlow
8 2 (5.41%) Locust
8 2 (5.41%) NUnit
8 2 (5.41%) Robot Framework
9 1 (2.70%) HP UFT
9 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
9 1 (2.70%) Xcode
General
1 20 (54.05%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Finance
3 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.22%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.70%) Front Office
7 1 (2.70%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Tester
2 7 (18.92%) Analyst
3 6 (16.22%) QA Tester
3 6 (16.22%) Test Manager
4 5 (13.51%) Automation Tester
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Test Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Lead
5 4 (10.81%) QA Automation Tester
5 4 (10.81%) Test Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) QA Analyst
6 3 (8.11%) QA Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 3 (8.11%) Selenium Tester
6 3 (8.11%) Test Leader
7 2 (5.41%) Mobile Specialist
7 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) SOAP
2 4 (10.81%) REST
3 3 (8.11%) Playwright
3 3 (8.11%) Web Services
4 2 (5.41%) Gherkin
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
5 1 (2.70%) .NET
5 1 (2.70%) ADO
5 1 (2.70%) FHIR
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) pytest
5 1 (2.70%) React Native
5 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.51%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.11%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.41%) Reinsurance
5 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.70%) NHS
5 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Android
1 4 (10.81%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) Test Automation
2 18 (48.65%) Agile
3 15 (40.54%) DevOps
4 13 (35.14%) Test Strategy
5 12 (32.43%) Software Testing
6 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
6 11 (29.73%) End-to-End Testing
7 10 (27.03%) Manual Testing
7 10 (27.03%) Security Testing
7 10 (27.03%) Test Scripting
8 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (24.32%) Regression Testing
8 9 (24.32%) Validation
9 8 (21.62%) Test Management
9 8 (21.62%) Test Planning
9 8 (21.62%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
11 5 (13.51%) Migration
11 5 (13.51%) Performance Testing
11 5 (13.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) Python
2 9 (24.32%) Java
3 6 (16.22%) SQL
4 4 (10.81%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
2 4 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) CBAP
4 1 (2.70%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (51.35%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.41%) SLA
4 1 (2.70%) HL7
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.70%) Grafana
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
1 5 (13.51%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.11%) Duck Creek
2 3 (8.11%) Guidewire
2 3 (8.11%) HP
3 1 (2.70%) Apple
3 1 (2.70%) Cerner
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco
3 1 (2.70%) Concur
3 1 (2.70%) Databricks
3 1 (2.70%) Genesys
3 1 (2.70%) GoldenSource
3 1 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (2.70%) Mitel
3 1 (2.70%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) Workday