ISTQB Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 3.13% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate - £400 £425
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -15.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 28 4 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 87.50% 80.00% 80.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 35
10th Percentile £600 - £370
25th Percentile £610 - £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £669 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.78%
75th Percentile £806 - £700
90th Percentile £825 - £750
Scotland median daily rate £450 £441 £463
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.70% +2.78%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISTQB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire.

ISTQB job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing ISTQB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing ISTQB

ISTQB
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
East Kilbride - 1 - - 1
ISTQB
Scotland

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes