ISTQB Advanced Certification Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Advanced Level (CTAL) formerly ISEB Advanced
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tower Hamlets 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 8 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB Advanced Certification 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 6.52% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
East London median daily rate £450 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15 17 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 32.61% 32.69% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 28
10th Percentile £425 £260 £495
25th Percentile £445 £393 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £540 £640
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -15.63% -1.54%
75th Percentile £675 £595 £668
90th Percentile £770 £650 £770
East London median daily rate £450 £538 £585
% change year-on-year -16.28% -8.12% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
East London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

ISTQB Advanced Certification job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB Advanced Certification within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 8 January 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
Canary Wharf - 3 £450 -
ISTQB Advanced Certification
East London

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) QA Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft