ISTQB Job Trends in Cambridge

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 57 63
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 -
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 2 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.39% 0.43% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.96% 1.18% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £50,000
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £60,000 - £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridge

ISTQB falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 209 170 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 40.82% 36.56% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 104 77 76
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,750 £31,125
25th Percentile £30,309 £47,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -45.38% +13.04% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £78,750 £77,813
90th Percentile £78,050 £80,000 £87,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £42,175 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -29.71% +9.09% +10.00%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

ISTQB job vacancy trend in Cambridge

ISTQB
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing ISTQB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing ISTQB

ISTQB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDET
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes