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 14 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - +33
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 11 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.65% - 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.59% - 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 4
10th Percentile £316 - £511
25th Percentile £328 - £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 - £568
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.12%
75th Percentile £463 - £600
90th Percentile £530 - -
England median daily rate £420 £488 £495
% change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% +10.00%

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 424 314 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 25.15% 21.45% 18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 215 277
10th Percentile £249 £220 £280
25th Percentile £384 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £573 £613
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 7
10th Percentile £18.51 £15.35 £19.31
25th Percentile £25.07 £23.04 £24.65
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +33.33% +60.00%
75th Percentile - £54.38 £37.04
90th Percentile - £63.75 £46.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.67
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.17% +19.26%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISTQB in Yorkshire

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 14 October 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
South Yorkshire - 10 £378 -
West Yorkshire - 1 £450 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) JIRA
1 8 (72.73%) Postman
1 8 (72.73%) SoapUI
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) JUnit
2 2 (18.18%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) TestNG
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Analyst
1 7 (63.64%) Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
1 2 (18.18%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
3 8 (72.73%) API Testing
3 8 (72.73%) Cloud Security
3 8 (72.73%) DevSecOps
3 8 (72.73%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (72.73%) Kanban
3 8 (72.73%) Privileged Access Management
3 8 (72.73%) Scrum
3 8 (72.73%) Security Testing
3 8 (72.73%) Software Testing
3 8 (72.73%) Test Management
4 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Functional Testing
7 3 (27.27%) DevOps
7 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
7 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
8 2 (18.18%) OO
8 2 (18.18%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) CISM
1 8 (72.73%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
1 6 (54.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (54.55%) NIST
1 6 (54.55%) PCI DSS
2 5 (45.45%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) BeyondTrust
1 8 (72.73%) CyberArk
1 8 (72.73%) Google
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
1 8 (72.73%) Thycotic