ISTQB Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 94 -
Rank change year-on-year -51 - -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.074% 0.087% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.37% 0.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £406 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -9.72% -14.29% +5.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 534 277 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.72% 24.00% 17.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 176 177
10th Percentile £320 £285 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £684 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 12 26
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.51 £12.53
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.38 £13.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £25.11 £15.09
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +66.47% -42.54%
75th Percentile - £25.15 £25.83
90th Percentile £68.75 £28.39 £63.75
England median hourly rate £51.22 £30.31 £41.27
% change year-on-year +69.02% -26.56% -24.97%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

ISTQB job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing ISTQB

ISTQB
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
South Yorkshire - 2 £350 -
ISTQB
England

ISTQB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Trend Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce