ISTQB Jobs in England

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 652 598 580
Rank change year-on-year -54 -18 +37
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 148 240 783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.34% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 1.01% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 86 192 422
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,938 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,324 £50,000 £45,041
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +11.01% +0.09%
75th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,000 £68,750 £67,425
UK median annual salary £45,996 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.18% +6.67% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21,233 23,740 40,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.10% 33.40% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 12,087 12,302 17,912
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,770 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in England

ISTQB
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in England.

Salary trend for ISTQB in England

ISTQB
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in England over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for ISTQB in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the England region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +7 38 £37,500 -11.76% 7
London +46 37 £68,500 +24.55% 3
North of England -5 30 £42,500 -5.03%
South West -21 27 £40,000 -15.79%
Yorkshire +44 15 £52,500 +23.53%
Midlands -35 14 £40,000 -20.00% 3
West Midlands -8 13 £40,000 -20.00% 2
North West -8 13 £37,500 -21.05%
North East -10 2 £48,222 +1.15%
East of England -16 2 £37,500 -
East Midlands -37 1 £30,000 -25.00% 1
ISTQB
UK

ISTQB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (2.03%) Confluence
2 2 (1.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.38%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.35%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.24%) SaaS
2 26 (17.57%) Azure
3 20 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (6.76%) AWS
5 5 (3.38%) BrowserStack
5 5 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.70%) Datadog
6 4 (2.70%) GitHub
6 4 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.03%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.03%) Cloud Functions
7 3 (2.03%) dbt
7 3 (2.03%) GCP
7 3 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.03%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.03%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) Bluetooth
1 3 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.35%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (2.03%) Tableau
4 2 (1.35%) Big Data
4 2 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.35%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 54 (36.49%) Selenium
2 38 (25.68%) JIRA
3 16 (10.81%) SpecFlow
4 13 (8.78%) JMeter
4 13 (8.78%) Postman
5 11 (7.43%) TestRail
6 10 (6.76%) NUnit
7 7 (4.73%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (4.73%) WebDriver
8 6 (4.05%) SoapUI
8 6 (4.05%) Visual Studio
9 5 (3.38%) HP UFT
9 5 (3.38%) LoadRunner
9 5 (3.38%) MSTest
9 5 (3.38%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.70%) Bugzilla
10 4 (2.70%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.70%) Git
10 4 (2.70%) Zephyr
11 3 (2.03%) TestComplete
General
1 63 (42.57%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.14%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (9.46%) Finance
5 8 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.73%) Banking
7 6 (4.05%) Retail
8 4 (2.70%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.03%) Back Office
9 3 (2.03%) Electronics
9 3 (2.03%) Games
9 3 (2.03%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.35%) Automotive
10 2 (1.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.68%) Advertising
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (32.43%) Analyst
2 40 (27.03%) Test Analyst
3 37 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 23 (15.54%) Lead
5 21 (14.19%) Tester
6 20 (13.51%) QA Analyst
7 19 (12.84%) Test Leader
8 15 (10.14%) Senior
9 14 (9.46%) Software Test Engineer
10 12 (8.11%) QA Engineer
10 12 (8.11%) QA Test Analyst
11 10 (6.76%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (6.76%) Test Automation Engineer
12 9 (6.08%) QA Automation Analyst
12 9 (6.08%) Software Tester
13 8 (5.41%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
13 8 (5.41%) QA Tester
14 7 (4.73%) Senior QA Analyst
15 6 (4.05%) Senior Tester
16 5 (3.38%) Senior QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.11%) XML
2 8 (5.41%) Playwright
3 6 (4.05%) .NET
4 5 (3.38%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.03%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (2.03%) RESTful
5 3 (2.03%) Spring
6 2 (1.35%) REST
7 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.68%) ADO
7 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.68%) HTML
7 1 (0.68%) Laravel
7 1 (0.68%) Middleware
7 1 (0.68%) Node.js
7 1 (0.68%) Puppeteer
7 1 (0.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.05%) Low-Code
3 4 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.03%) Derivative
4 3 (2.03%) Equities
4 3 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.03%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.35%) IoT
5 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.68%) PMI
6 1 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.84%) Windows
2 18 (12.16%) Linux
3 3 (2.03%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Android
4 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.68%) CentOS
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (63.51%) Test Automation
2 89 (60.14%) Software Testing
3 76 (51.35%) Agile
4 50 (33.78%) Regression Testing
4 50 (33.78%) Test Scripting
5 38 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (25.00%) Test Management
7 35 (23.65%) Test Strategy
8 33 (22.30%) Manual Testing
9 32 (21.62%) DevOps
10 30 (20.27%) CI/CD
10 30 (20.27%) SDLC
11 29 (19.59%) Defect Management
12 25 (16.89%) Scrum
13 24 (16.22%) Test Planning
14 22 (14.86%) Functional Testing
15 21 (14.19%) Software Engineering
16 20 (13.51%) User Acceptance Testing
17 18 (12.16%) Time Management
18 17 (11.49%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.65%) Python
2 31 (20.95%) SQL
3 28 (18.92%) C#
4 16 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.08%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.05%) Java
7 4 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.03%) C++
9 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.35%) Scala
10 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 36 (24.32%) ISEB
2 35 (23.65%) Degree
3 27 (18.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 26 (17.57%) Security Cleared
5 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
6 12 (8.11%) DV Cleared
7 10 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (4.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (3.38%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (2.70%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.70%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.35%) HND
12 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (48.65%) QA
2 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.35%) Docker
1 2 (1.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (3.38%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.35%) Ansible
2 2 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.05%) Google
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle
3 5 (3.38%) HP
4 3 (2.03%) OpenText
4 3 (2.03%) ScienceLogic
4 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.03%) Siebel
5 2 (1.35%) Databricks
5 2 (1.35%) Denodo
5 2 (1.35%) Informatica
5 2 (1.35%) SAP
5 2 (1.35%) Talend
6 1 (0.68%) IFS
6 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft