ISTQB Foundation Certification Job Trends in Hampshire

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) formerly ISEB Foundation
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for ISTQB Foundation Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 110 176
Rank change year-on-year -18 +66 -1
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification 4 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.12% 0.063% 0.027%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.53% 0.11% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
75th Percentile £52,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £45,000 £32,500 -
% change year-on-year +38.46% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hampshire

ISTQB Foundation Certification 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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 757 932 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 23.26% 58.76% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 477 631 917
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +7.84% +7.37%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £56,465 £55,000 £51,010
% change year-on-year +2.66% +7.82% +2.02%

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

ISTQB Foundation Certification job vacancy trend in Hampshire

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing ISTQB Foundation Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing ISTQB Foundation Certification

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 7 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Basingstoke +16 3 - - 1
ISTQB Foundation Certification
South East

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) TestRail
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Manual Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Testing Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Terminal Server
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Nessus
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Juniper
1 1 (25.00%) McAfee
1 1 (25.00%) VMware