ISTQB Contract Job Trends in Southampton

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Southampton with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.00% 2.02% -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.50% 7.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £665 £326 -
25th Percentile £669 £327 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £348 -
Median % change year-on-year +101.44% - -
75th Percentile £744 £371 -
90th Percentile £755 £373 -
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +2.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 80 27 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 40.00% 27.27% 28.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 14 38
10th Percentile £266 £175 £271
25th Percentile £450 £251 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £425 £509
Median % change year-on-year +24.71% -16.42% -7.55%
75th Percentile £569 £600 £669
90th Percentile £685 £636 £713
Hampshire median daily rate £563 £551 £600
% change year-on-year +2.18% -8.25% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile - - £42.75
25th Percentile £12.21 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £18.68 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +182.83%
75th Percentile £33.93 - £77.50
90th Percentile £76.23 - £79.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £23.58 £62.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -62.28% +8.98% -4.42%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

ISTQB job vacancy trend in Southampton

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing ISTQB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing ISTQB

ISTQB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Multicast
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 2 (100.00%) Aviation
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Validation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
2 1 (50.00%) GRC
2 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (100.00%) Iperf
1 2 (100.00%) Nmap
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) Tufin