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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 504 555
Rank change year-on-year +9 +51 -44
Contract jobs citing ISEB 55 70 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.56% 0.54% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 95
10th Percentile £308 £160 £303
25th Percentile £363 £318 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £544 £526 £547
90th Percentile £606 £575 £611
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -3.53% - -5.56%

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 9,820 12,922 15,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.88% 29.81% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,076 8,015 10,048
10th Percentile £275 £310 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £703 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £527 £525
% change year-on-year -5.12% +0.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 657 1,098 739
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £15.24
25th Percentile £20.15 £20.12 £22.51
Median hourly rate £27.53 £40.97 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.80% -25.85% +24.16%
75th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £43.00 £53.35
% change year-on-year -41.34% -19.40% +51.99%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ISEB in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ISEB in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ISEB in the UK

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Top 14 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 5 July 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 +44 46 £410 -3.53% 37
England +41 40 £410 -4.65% 58
South East +40 23 £450 +4.65% 17
Work from Home +14 13 £425 -8.11% 23
London +32 7 £575 +12.75% 25
Wales +7 6 £394 +189.52% 2
Scotland +2 6 £400 -14.67% 1
North of England +8 4 £410 - 7
North West +7 4 £410 - 1
Northern Ireland - 3 £588 -
South West +37 2 £320 -48.09% 5
East of England +24 1 £313 -13.79% 2
West Midlands +4 1 £402 +0.41% 2
Midlands +1 1 £402 +0.41% 4

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 4 (7.27%) Confluence
1 4 (7.27%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.82%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
1 1 (1.82%) Endur
1 1 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) Azure
2 6 (10.91%) SaaS
3 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Stack
5 2 (3.64%) IaaS
5 2 (3.64%) PaaS
5 2 (3.64%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.82%) AWS
6 1 (1.82%) Collibra
6 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (27.27%) LTE
2 14 (25.45%) ATM
2 14 (25.45%) Ethernet
2 14 (25.45%) Frame Relay
2 14 (25.45%) GPRS
2 14 (25.45%) GSM
2 14 (25.45%) LAN
2 14 (25.45%) MPLS
2 14 (25.45%) SAN
2 14 (25.45%) SDH
2 14 (25.45%) UMTS
2 14 (25.45%) VPN
2 14 (25.45%) WAN
2 14 (25.45%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.82%) 3G
3 1 (1.82%) 4G
3 1 (1.82%) 5G
3 1 (1.82%) Internet
3 1 (1.82%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
1 2 (3.64%) Tableau
2 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.82%) OLAP
2 1 (1.82%) OLTP
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (29.09%) JIRA
2 7 (12.73%) Postman
3 4 (7.27%) Toad
4 3 (5.45%) Selenium
4 3 (5.45%) WebDriver
5 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.64%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.64%) Git
5 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.64%) Subversion
5 2 (3.64%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.64%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.82%) Appium
6 1 (1.82%) ERwin
6 1 (1.82%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (1.82%) NUnit
6 1 (1.82%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.82%) TestComplete
General
1 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (29.09%) Finance
3 15 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 14 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.09%) Banking
5 5 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.27%) Automotive
6 4 (7.27%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.82%) Back Office
8 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.82%) Games
8 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 29 (52.73%) Analyst
2 17 (30.91%) Test Analyst
3 13 (23.64%) IP Engineer
3 13 (23.64%) Test Engineer
4 12 (21.82%) Senior
5 8 (14.55%) Business Analyst
6 7 (12.73%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (9.09%) Business Test Analyst
7 5 (9.09%) IP Network Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Network Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Data Analyst
8 4 (7.27%) Project Manager
8 4 (7.27%) SAP Analyst
8 4 (7.27%) SAP Test Analyst
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Data Analyst
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Manager
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Project Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Market Risk Analyst
9 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
9 3 (5.45%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) XML
2 6 (10.91%) SOAP
3 5 (9.09%) JSON
3 5 (9.09%) REST
4 3 (5.45%) .NET
5 2 (3.64%) XML Messaging
6 1 (1.82%) RESTful
6 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.45%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.91%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (7.27%) Market Risk
5 3 (5.45%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.64%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.64%) EPoS
6 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.82%) Equities
7 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.82%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.82%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.82%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.82%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.91%) Unix
2 14 (25.45%) Linux
3 4 (7.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) Project Management
2 23 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (41.82%) Test Strategy
3 22 (40.00%) Agile
4 16 (29.09%) Regression Testing
5 14 (25.45%) Fault Management
5 14 (25.45%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (23.64%) Test Automation
7 12 (21.82%) Business Analysis
7 12 (21.82%) Change Management
8 11 (20.00%) Software Testing
9 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (14.55%) Defect Management
10 8 (14.55%) Validation
10 8 (14.55%) Waterfall
11 7 (12.73%) PRINCE2
12 6 (10.91%) Data Protection
12 6 (10.91%) ITIL
12 6 (10.91%) Scenario Testing
12 6 (10.91%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 20 (36.36%) Java
2 10 (18.18%) SQL
3 3 (5.45%) C#
3 3 (5.45%) Python
4 2 (3.64%) C++
4 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.64%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.64%) VBA
4 2 (3.64%) VBScript
5 1 (1.82%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 27 (49.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 17 (30.91%) Degree
4 14 (25.45%) CCNP
4 14 (25.45%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
6 6 (10.91%) IIBA
6 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
7 5 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (7.27%) APMP
8 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
8 4 (7.27%) PMI Certification
8 4 (7.27%) PMP
8 4 (7.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.82%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) QA
1 5 (9.09%) SEPA
2 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) NIST
3 1 (1.82%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (34.55%) Microsoft
2 15 (27.27%) Cisco
2 15 (27.27%) Juniper
3 5 (9.09%) Oracle
3 5 (9.09%) webMethods
4 4 (7.27%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Arista
5 1 (1.82%) Compaq
5 1 (1.82%) Dell
5 1 (1.82%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.82%) HP
5 1 (1.82%) Informatica
5 1 (1.82%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.82%) Nokia
5 1 (1.82%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.82%) Snow
5 1 (1.82%) Sparx
5 1 (1.82%) Terracotta
5 1 (1.82%) Trayport
5 1 (1.82%) VMware