ISTQB Advanced Certification Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Advanced Level (CTAL) formerly ISEB Advanced
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes with a requirement for ISTQB Advanced Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB Advanced Certification 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.28% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.54% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £488 - -
25th Percentile £492 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 - -
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile £512 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £502 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

ISTQB Advanced Certification 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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 370 73 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 51.82% 42.69% 39.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 57 124
10th Percentile £413 £365 £363
25th Percentile £479 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% -0.82% +9.95%
75th Percentile £610 £599 £610
90th Percentile £638 £635 £780
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £545 £515 £517
% change year-on-year +5.83% -0.34% +9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 9
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.70 -
25th Percentile - £16.38 £15.85
Median hourly rate £16.35 £19.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% +5.56% +80.00%
75th Percentile - £37.13 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.32 £47.10 £22.53
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £35.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -54.27% +58.89% +125.00%

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISTQB Advanced Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

ISTQB Advanced Certification job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing ISTQB Advanced Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing ISTQB Advanced Certification

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (50.00%) QA Manager
2 1 (50.00%) QA Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
ISTQB Advanced Certification jobs