ISTQB Foundation Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) formerly ISEB Foundation
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for ISTQB Foundation Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 438 540
Rank change year-on-year +116 +102 -112
Contract jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification 15 29 85
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.099% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% 0.45% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 73
10th Percentile £283 £375 £358
25th Percentile £316 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £429 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -4.67% +17.49%
75th Percentile £608 £497 £538
90th Percentile £610 £521 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £495 £428
% change year-on-year +11.11% +15.65% +10.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £52.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year -37.50% +144.71% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

ISTQB Foundation Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,158 6,516 8,836
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.45% 25.48% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,617 4,383 6,202
10th Percentile £325 £380 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £730 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 288 224
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.43 £19.40
25th Percentile £24.25 £42.50 £38.38
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +32.65% +22.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.54
90th Percentile £82.13 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +10.82%

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ISTQB Foundation Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ISTQB Foundation Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ISTQB Foundation Certification.

ISTQB Foundation Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing ISTQB Foundation Certification over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

ISTQB Foundation Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) TestRail
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA
3 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (20.00%) Git
4 2 (13.33%) FitNesse
4 2 (13.33%) JMeter
4 2 (13.33%) LoadRunner
4 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
5 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (6.67%) Selenium
5 1 (6.67%) Subversion
5 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
5 1 (6.67%) TestComplete
5 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
5 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (13.33%) Back Office
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Front Office
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Automotive
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Analyst
1 11 (73.33%) Test Analyst
2 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) QA Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Functional Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Project Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Playwright
1 2 (13.33%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.67%) NHS
1 1 (6.67%) Reference Data
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
1 12 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (60.00%) Test Management
3 6 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (26.67%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) BDD
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) API Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Dependency Management
6 2 (13.33%) Functional Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Load Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
6 2 (13.33%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) VBA
3 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) ISTQB
2 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (26.67%) Degree
4 4 (26.67%) ISEB
5 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) HNC
6 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle