ISTQB Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Worcestershire with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 0.63% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £359 £402 £400
% change year-on-year -10.55% +0.41% -4.99%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 96 35 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 60.38% 57.38% 33.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 26 22
10th Percentile £463 £145 £418
25th Percentile £525 £298 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £644 £580
Median % change year-on-year -10.68% +10.99% -3.33%
75th Percentile £707 £700 £649
90th Percentile £750 £850 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £515 £450
% change year-on-year -4.47% +14.44% -10.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £73.45 - £26.38
25th Percentile £74.88 £15.22 £34.06
Median hourly rate £78.50 £17.16 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +357.46% -64.80% -
75th Percentile £80.88 £18.13 £64.06
90th Percentile £81.55 - £72.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.44 £26.30 £34.50
% change year-on-year -26.10% -23.77% +72.50%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

ISTQB job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing ISTQB

ISTQB
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
Kidderminster - 1 £425 - 1
ISTQB
West Midlands

ISTQB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft