ISTQB Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 291 405
Rank change year-on-year +13 +114 +38
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 31 51 52
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.06% 1.35% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 44 41
10th Percentile £313 £302 £350
25th Percentile £333 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +3.09% +7.78%
75th Percentile £523 £603 £525
90th Percentile £625 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £83.50 - £52.50
75th Percentile £85.25 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £83.50 - £37.93
% change year-on-year - - +78.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,916 3,781 5,892
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.01% 25.76% 24.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,915 2,427 3,967
10th Percentile £350 £330 £375
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £623 £635 £650
90th Percentile £713 £725 £745
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.48% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 252 236
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.85 £19.00
25th Percentile £27.17 £25.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £53.50 £43.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% -28.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67.13 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.48 £85.00 £78.97
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £40.94 £55.85
% change year-on-year -31.75% -26.70% +25.51%

ISTQB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ISTQB trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ISTQB.

ISTQB daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ISTQB over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

ISTQB daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ISTQB.

ISTQB hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB
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 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) Magento
2 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.23%) Summit
2 1 (3.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) GitHub
4 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.45%) Asana
5 2 (6.45%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.23%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.23%) IaaS
6 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.23%) PaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.23%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Data Mart
1 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (48.39%) JIRA
2 11 (35.48%) Selenium
3 7 (22.58%) Postman
4 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
5 5 (16.13%) Appium
5 5 (16.13%) Git
5 5 (16.13%) Zephyr
6 4 (12.90%) TestRail
6 4 (12.90%) WebDriver
7 3 (9.68%) Cucumber
7 3 (9.68%) Cypress.io
7 3 (9.68%) JMeter
7 3 (9.68%) SpecFlow
8 2 (6.45%) JUnit
8 2 (6.45%) NUnit
8 2 (6.45%) REST Assured
8 2 (6.45%) TestNG
9 1 (3.23%) Gatling
9 1 (3.23%) Snyk
9 1 (3.23%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Banking
3 3 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.23%) Back Office
4 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.23%) Front Office
4 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Analyst
2 11 (35.48%) Test Analyst
3 6 (19.35%) QA Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Business Test Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Test Manager
5 3 (9.68%) Lead
5 3 (9.68%) Payments Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Specialist
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Mobile Specialist
6 2 (6.45%) QA Automation Tester
6 2 (6.45%) QA Leader
6 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) SAP Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.81%) REST
2 6 (19.35%) Playwright
2 6 (19.35%) SOAP
3 5 (16.13%) XML
4 4 (12.90%) JSON
5 2 (6.45%) GraphQL
5 2 (6.45%) Web Services
6 1 (3.23%) .NET
6 1 (3.23%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.23%) Kafka
6 1 (3.23%) Murex MxML
6 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
1 5 (16.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (12.90%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (12.90%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.23%) Derivative
3 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Android
1 3 (9.68%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Test Automation
2 17 (54.84%) Agile
3 14 (45.16%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (41.94%) Test Strategy
5 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
5 11 (35.48%) DevOps
6 10 (32.26%) Software Testing
7 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (25.81%) Test Management
8 7 (22.58%) Test Scripting
9 6 (19.35%) API Testing
9 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
9 6 (19.35%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (19.35%) Performance Testing
9 6 (19.35%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (19.35%) Security Testing
9 6 (19.35%) Validation
9 6 (19.35%) Waterfall
10 5 (16.13%) Defect Management
10 5 (16.13%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) SQL
2 4 (12.90%) C#
2 4 (12.90%) Java
2 4 (12.90%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) Bash
3 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.23%) C++
4 1 (3.23%) Groovy
4 1 (3.23%) Ruby
4 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.23%) VBA
4 1 (3.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
1 8 (25.81%) ISEB
2 5 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
4 3 (9.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CEH
5 1 (3.23%) CISSP
5 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (51.61%) QA
2 4 (12.90%) SEPA
3 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.45%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (3.23%) EMIR
4 1 (3.23%) GDPR
4 1 (3.23%) ISO 9001
4 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.23%) MiFID
4 1 (3.23%) NIST
4 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Grafana
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.23%) Kibana
2 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.23%) Concur
3 1 (3.23%) Duck Creek
3 1 (3.23%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.23%) HP
3 1 (3.23%) Murex
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Tradeweb
3 1 (3.23%) webMethods