ISTQB Foundation Certification Contracts in Scotland

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) formerly ISEB Foundation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for ISTQB Foundation Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 126 161
Rank change year-on-year +13 +35 +4
Contract jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.14% 0.070%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.93% 0.50% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £368 £272
25th Percentile - £375 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -23.53%
75th Percentile - £425 £355
90th Percentile - £433 £370
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £489
% change year-on-year -18.18% +12.53% +14.19%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

ISTQB Foundation 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 321 606 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.75% 27.33% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 326 408
10th Percentile £200 £188 £163
25th Percentile £363 £346 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £632
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 14
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.95 £13.65
25th Percentile £19.73 £16.50 £15.99
Median hourly rate £22.88 £40.94 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year -44.13% +90.73% -49.57%
75th Percentile £28.07 £60.00 £57.90
90th Percentile £61.16 £64.70 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing ISTQB Foundation Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in Scotland

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in Scotland

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in Scotland

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +6 3 £400 -5.88% 1
ISTQB Foundation Certification
UK

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) PowerApps
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (100.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) ATDD
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) V-Model
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VBA
1 3 (100.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA