ISTQB Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 48 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.33% 0.26% -
As % of the Qualifications category 5.88% 1.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £316 - -
25th Percentile £323 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £532 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £378 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +42.86%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 170 92 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 22.58% 24.08% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 60 80
10th Percentile £344 £187 £373
25th Percentile £417 £220 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £495 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -13.91% +9.52%
75th Percentile £618 £588 £691
90th Percentile £703 £650 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £13.85 £13.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% -73.00% +237.27%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £30.05
% change year-on-year -32.93% +24.79% +60.27%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

ISTQB job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

ISTQB
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISTQB in South Yorkshire

ISTQB
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 December 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
Sheffield -25 10 £378 - 2
ISTQB
Yorkshire

ISTQB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) JIRA
1 8 (80.00%) Postman
1 8 (80.00%) SoapUI
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) JUnit
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) TestNG
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
1 7 (70.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
1 2 (20.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 8 (80.00%) API Testing
2 8 (80.00%) Cloud Security
2 8 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 8 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
2 8 (80.00%) Kanban
2 8 (80.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 8 (80.00%) Scrum
2 8 (80.00%) Security Testing
2 8 (80.00%) Software Testing
2 8 (80.00%) Test Management
3 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) CISM
1 8 (80.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) GDPR
1 6 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (60.00%) NIST
1 6 (60.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) BeyondTrust
1 8 (80.00%) CyberArk
1 8 (80.00%) Google
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (80.00%) Thycotic