ISTQB Job Trends in London

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 350 423
Rank change year-on-year -71 +73 +42
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 19 43 37
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.080% 0.35% 0.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.40% 1.21% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 12 31 29
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,813 £47,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £63,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -8.03% +24.55%
75th Percentile £70,625 £67,500 £78,000
90th Percentile £77,000 - £78,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £46,074
% change year-on-year -5.66% +15.03% -7.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,779 3,551 5,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.08% 29.12% 27.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 1,965 2,885
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,200
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.03% -2.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ISTQB job vacancy trend in London

ISTQB
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing ISTQB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing ISTQB

ISTQB
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in London over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for ISTQB in London

ISTQB
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the London region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Central London -6 2 £60,500 +2.98% 3
ISTQB
England

ISTQB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (26.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) BrowserStack
4 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.26%) Apigee
5 1 (5.26%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (5.26%) Kong
5 1 (5.26%) SonarCloud
5 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) IPv4
1 4 (21.05%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) JIRA
2 9 (47.37%) Selenium
3 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
4 6 (31.58%) Postman
5 5 (26.32%) Bitbucket
5 5 (26.32%) Git
6 4 (21.05%) GitLab
6 4 (21.05%) JMeter
6 4 (21.05%) SpecFlow
7 3 (15.79%) Cypress.io
8 2 (10.53%) JUnit
9 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
9 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
9 1 (5.26%) LoadRunner
9 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
9 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
9 1 (5.26%) TestRail
9 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
9 1 (5.26%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Aerospace
3 4 (21.05%) Automotive
3 4 (21.05%) Electronics
3 4 (21.05%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.79%) Advertising
4 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Lead
2 5 (26.32%) Tester
3 4 (21.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Automation Tester
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Tester
4 3 (15.79%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) QA Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Test Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Manual Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Test Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Development Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Test Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Test Development Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) JWT
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.26%) Playwright
1 1 (5.26%) Swagger
1 1 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (21.05%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (15.79%) Housing Association
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) CI/CD
2 13 (68.42%) Agile
3 12 (63.16%) Test Automation
4 11 (57.89%) DevOps
5 10 (52.63%) Scrum
6 9 (47.37%) Manual Testing
7 8 (42.11%) Migration
8 7 (36.84%) Regression Testing
8 7 (36.84%) Test Strategy
8 7 (36.84%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (31.58%) Software Testing
10 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (26.32%) Integration Testing
11 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
11 4 (21.05%) Cyber Intelligence
11 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
11 4 (21.05%) DevSecOps
11 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 4 (21.05%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) Python
3 7 (36.84%) Bash
3 7 (36.84%) PowerShell
4 5 (26.32%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
2 4 (21.05%) CCNA
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (21.05%) OSCP
2 4 (21.05%) RHCE
2 4 (21.05%) RHCSA
2 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.26%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
2 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (21.05%) Squid
2 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (21.05%) VMware NSX
2 4 (21.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Ansible
1 7 (36.84%) Terraform
2 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
3 4 (21.05%) Packer
3 4 (21.05%) ZABBIX
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Oracle
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 4 (21.05%) Red Hat
3 4 (21.05%) Splunk
3 4 (21.05%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Workday