ISEB Contracts

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 462 539 545
Rank change year-on-year +77 +6 0
Contract jobs citing ISEB 57 61 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.63% 0.46% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 47 124
10th Percentile £308 £223 £286
25th Percentile £361 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £460 £455
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +1.09% +1.11%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £552
90th Percentile £541 £635 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £430 £425
% change year-on-year -4.65% +1.18% -5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +209.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ISEB 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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISEB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISEB.

Daily rate trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISEB.

Hourly rate trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
UK excluding London +67 50 £410 -4.65% 20
England +65 50 £410 -10.86% 30
South East +61 31 £450 +4.65% 6
Work from Home +35 12 £400 -20.00% 19
North of England +32 6 £410 -3.53% 5
North West +15 6 £410 -3.53% 4
Scotland +8 6 £400 -14.67%
London +21 5 £488 -11.36% 13
South West +45 3 £325 -47.28% 3
Midlands +16 3 £455 +13.64% 3
West Midlands +15 3 £455 +13.64% 2
Wales +5 1 £375 +134.38% 2

ISEB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.53%) Confluence
2 4 (7.02%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
1 1 (1.75%) Endur
1 1 (1.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.79%) Azure
2 6 (10.53%) SaaS
3 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.26%) IaaS
5 3 (5.26%) PaaS
5 3 (5.26%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.75%) AWS
7 1 (1.75%) Collibra
7 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (28.07%) LTE
2 15 (26.32%) ATM
2 15 (26.32%) Ethernet
2 15 (26.32%) Frame Relay
2 15 (26.32%) GPRS
2 15 (26.32%) GSM
2 15 (26.32%) LAN
2 15 (26.32%) MPLS
2 15 (26.32%) SAN
2 15 (26.32%) SDH
2 15 (26.32%) UMTS
2 15 (26.32%) VPN
2 15 (26.32%) WAN
2 15 (26.32%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.75%) 3G
3 1 (1.75%) 4G
3 1 (1.75%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.51%) IDMS
2 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.75%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.75%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.75%) OLAP
2 1 (1.75%) OLTP
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (1.75%) Power BI
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (28.07%) JIRA
2 4 (7.02%) Cucumber
2 4 (7.02%) Selenium
2 4 (7.02%) Toad
2 4 (7.02%) WebDriver
3 3 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 3 (5.26%) Git
3 3 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.26%) Postman
3 3 (5.26%) Subversion
3 3 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.51%) CA Gen
5 1 (1.75%) Appium
5 1 (1.75%) ERwin
5 1 (1.75%) Gemini Tracker
5 1 (1.75%) NUnit
General
1 32 (56.14%) Social Skills
2 22 (38.60%) Telecoms
3 10 (17.54%) Finance
4 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.28%) Legal
6 6 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (10.53%) Marketing
7 5 (8.77%) Automotive
7 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
8 4 (7.02%) Law
9 1 (1.75%) Back Office
9 1 (1.75%) Banking
9 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (29.82%) Analyst
2 14 (24.56%) IP Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) Test Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Senior
3 10 (17.54%) Test Analyst
4 7 (12.28%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Lead
6 5 (8.77%) Data Protection Officer
7 4 (7.02%) IP Network Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Network Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Project Manager
7 4 (7.02%) SAP Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) SAP Test Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Manager
7 4 (7.02%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (5.26%) QA Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) QA Leader
8 3 (5.26%) Release Manager
9 2 (3.51%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
9 2 (3.51%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) .NET
1 4 (7.02%) XML
2 1 (1.75%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.32%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (12.28%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.02%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.26%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.51%) EPoS
6 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.75%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.33%) Unix
2 15 (26.32%) Linux
3 4 (7.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Project Management
2 21 (36.84%) Agile
2 21 (36.84%) Test Strategy
3 18 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (28.07%) Regression Testing
5 15 (26.32%) Fault Management
6 11 (19.30%) Waterfall
7 9 (15.79%) Validation
8 8 (14.04%) Business Analysis
8 8 (14.04%) Impact Assessments
8 8 (14.04%) PRINCE2
8 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.28%) Change Management
9 7 (12.28%) Data Protection
9 7 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (10.53%) B2C
10 6 (10.53%) CI/CD
10 6 (10.53%) Data Privacy
10 6 (10.53%) Defect Management
11 5 (8.77%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (38.60%) Java
2 10 (17.54%) SQL
3 4 (7.02%) C#
4 3 (5.26%) C++
4 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
4 3 (5.26%) VBA
4 3 (5.26%) VBScript
5 2 (3.51%) COBOL
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) Python
6 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (57.89%) ISTQB
2 28 (49.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 15 (26.32%) CCNP
3 15 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (14.04%) Degree
5 6 (10.53%) IIBA
6 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
6 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
7 3 (5.26%) APMP
7 3 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (3.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) QA
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (3.51%) PMO
4 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.75%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (28.07%) Cisco
2 16 (28.07%) Juniper
3 6 (10.53%) SAP
4 5 (8.77%) Oracle
5 4 (7.02%) webMethods
6 1 (1.75%) Arista
6 1 (1.75%) Dell
6 1 (1.75%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.75%) Informatica
6 1 (1.75%) Mavenir
6 1 (1.75%) Nokia
6 1 (1.75%) OpenLink
6 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.75%) Snow
6 1 (1.75%) Sparx
6 1 (1.75%) Trayport
6 1 (1.75%) VMware