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 29 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 404 437
Rank change year-on-year +64 +33 +138
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 49 34 34
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.33% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.19% 0.67% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 41 27 32
10th Percentile £40,300 £46,250 £30,175
25th Percentile £49,750 £55,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +20.93% +3.56%
75th Percentile £68,750 £74,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £88,000 £73,425
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £49,329
% change year-on-year - -3.71% -1.34%

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 4,112 5,108 5,500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 27.75% 32.93% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,166 2,004 4,001
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,001 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.94%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,375 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +26 2 £73,000 +53.68% 4
West London - 2 £32,500 -
South London +40 1 - - 1
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 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Elite 3E
2 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.08%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (4.08%) Workday HCM
3 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (53.06%) Azure
2 18 (36.73%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (24.49%) AWS
4 11 (22.45%) Power Platform
5 10 (20.41%) GCP
6 9 (18.37%) BrowserStack
7 7 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.08%) GitHub
9 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (4.08%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) DNS
1 3 (6.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.08%) Metadata
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (51.02%) JIRA
2 17 (34.69%) Selenium
3 10 (20.41%) Postman
4 9 (18.37%) Cypress.io
5 6 (12.24%) SpecFlow
5 6 (12.24%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (8.16%) GitLab
6 4 (8.16%) Jenkins
6 4 (8.16%) TestRail
6 4 (8.16%) Visual Studio
7 3 (6.12%) NUnit
7 3 (6.12%) SoapUI
7 3 (6.12%) WebDriver
8 2 (4.08%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.08%) Gatling
8 2 (4.08%) JMeter
8 2 (4.08%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (4.08%) TestDirector
8 2 (4.08%) Zephyr
9 1 (2.04%) HP UFT
General
1 29 (59.18%) Social Skills
2 26 (53.06%) Finance
3 18 (36.73%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Banking
5 4 (8.16%) Law
5 4 (8.16%) Legal
5 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.12%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Electronics
7 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Analyst
1 11 (22.45%) Test Analyst
2 10 (20.41%) Lead
2 10 (20.41%) Test Leader
3 9 (18.37%) Test Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Test Manager
5 5 (10.20%) Development Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Software Development Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Software Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Test Development Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Tester
6 4 (8.16%) IT Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) QA Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) QA Test Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) QA Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) .NET
2 6 (12.24%) Playwright
3 5 (10.20%) HTML
4 4 (8.16%) XML
5 3 (6.12%) CSS
5 3 (6.12%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (6.12%) React
5 3 (6.12%) REST
6 2 (4.08%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.08%) SOAP
7 1 (2.04%) Spring
7 1 (2.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Derivative
1 3 (6.12%) Equities
1 3 (6.12%) Fixed Income
1 3 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.08%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.04%) IoT
3 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Linux
1 6 (12.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (75.51%) Test Automation
2 33 (67.35%) Agile
3 24 (48.98%) Software Testing
4 20 (40.82%) DevOps
5 19 (38.78%) Test Management
6 18 (36.73%) Manual Testing
6 18 (36.73%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
8 16 (32.65%) Non-Functional Testing
9 15 (30.61%) Test Strategy
10 14 (28.57%) Defect Management
10 14 (28.57%) Scrum
10 14 (28.57%) Test Scripting
11 13 (26.53%) Performance Testing
11 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (20.41%) Regression Testing
13 10 (20.41%) SDLC
13 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (18.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.57%) SQL
2 9 (18.37%) TypeScript
3 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.29%) C#
5 6 (12.24%) Python
6 5 (10.20%) Java
7 3 (6.12%) Bash
7 3 (6.12%) Bicep
7 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 9 (18.37%) ISEB
3 7 (14.29%) Degree
4 4 (8.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (34.69%) QA
2 5 (10.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Ansible
1 3 (6.12%) HP ALM
1 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
1 3 (6.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) iManage
2 4 (8.16%) Splunk
3 3 (6.12%) HP
3 3 (6.12%) SAP
3 3 (6.12%) Siebel
4 2 (4.08%) CODA
4 2 (4.08%) Cognos
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle
4 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.08%) Sitecore
4 2 (4.08%) Workday
5 1 (2.04%) Ariba
5 1 (2.04%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.04%) OpenText