ISTQB Contracts in Wiltshire

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 - 90
Rank change year-on-year - - -27
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.36% - 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.84% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £285 - -
25th Percentile £309 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 - £525
90th Percentile £660 - £555
South West median daily rate £463 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +8.82% -22.73% +17.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 326 723 759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 73.92% 76.91% 70.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 564 637
10th Percentile £310 £400 £413
25th Percentile £488 £475 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.01% +7.70%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £586
% change year-on-year - -6.10% +11.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £18.73 - £29.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.17% -34.73% +1.31%
75th Percentile £26.85 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £41.13 - £85.50
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +3.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Job postings citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in Wiltshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for ISTQB in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISTQB in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for ISTQB in Wiltshire

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Swindon - 3 £315 -
Corsham - 1 £630 -
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) Snyk
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Military
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) System Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Groovy
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) ISEB
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) OPNET
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform