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 19 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 344 476
Rank change year-on-year -28 +132 +64
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 39 44 23
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.19% 0.36% 0.098%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.91% 1.08% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 32 34 18
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,875 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,509 £61,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +16.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £54,688
90th Percentile £77,000 £81,500 £80,100
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -10.53%

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 4,298 4,063 6,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.81% 32.95% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,519 1,938 4,241
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,550 £112,500 £103,750
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 19 May 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 19 May 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
West London - 2 £32,500 -
Central London -10 1 £75,000 +42.86% 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 5 (12.82%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 22 (56.41%) Azure
2 20 (51.28%) AWS
3 13 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (33.33%) GCP
4 9 (23.08%) BrowserStack
5 7 (17.95%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (5.13%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (2.56%) Apigee
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.56%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (2.56%) Kong
9 1 (2.56%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) IPv4
1 4 (10.26%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (7.69%) DNS
2 3 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (46.15%) JIRA
1 18 (46.15%) Selenium
2 9 (23.08%) Postman
3 8 (20.51%) Cypress.io
3 8 (20.51%) Jenkins
4 7 (17.95%) GitLab
5 6 (15.38%) Git
5 6 (15.38%) SpecFlow
6 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket
7 3 (7.69%) JUnit
7 3 (7.69%) SoapUI
7 3 (7.69%) WebDriver
8 2 (5.13%) Cucumber
8 2 (5.13%) JMeter
8 2 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (5.13%) TestNG
9 1 (2.56%) LoadRunner
9 1 (2.56%) Maven
9 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (56.41%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Aerospace
4 4 (10.26%) Automotive
4 4 (10.26%) Electronics
4 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.69%) Advertising
5 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Back Office
6 1 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Lead
2 8 (20.51%) Development Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Software Development Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Software Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Test Development Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Test Manager
3 6 (15.38%) Tester
4 5 (12.82%) Test Leader
5 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) QA Automation Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) QA Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) QA Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) QA Test Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Banking Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) .NET
2 3 (7.69%) HTML
2 3 (7.69%) Playwright
3 2 (5.13%) SOAP
3 2 (5.13%) Swagger
4 1 (2.56%) CSS
4 1 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.56%) JWT
4 1 (2.56%) Kafka
4 1 (2.56%) OAuth
4 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.56%) React
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (10.26%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (7.69%) Housing Association
3 2 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Derivative
4 1 (2.56%) Equities
4 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
1 8 (20.51%) Windows
2 4 (10.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) Test Automation
2 25 (64.10%) CI/CD
3 24 (61.54%) Agile
4 19 (48.72%) DevOps
5 17 (43.59%) Software Testing
5 17 (43.59%) Test Strategy
6 16 (41.03%) Scrum
7 15 (38.46%) Defect Management
7 15 (38.46%) Manual Testing
7 15 (38.46%) Non-Functional Testing
7 15 (38.46%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (25.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (25.64%) Performance Testing
8 10 (25.64%) SDLC
9 8 (20.51%) API Testing
9 8 (20.51%) E-Commerce
9 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.51%) SDET
9 8 (20.51%) Software Delivery
9 8 (20.51%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) TypeScript
2 9 (23.08%) C#
2 9 (23.08%) Java
2 9 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 9 (23.08%) Python
3 7 (17.95%) Bash
3 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.26%) SQL
5 3 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 7 (17.95%) Degree
3 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
4 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (10.26%) CCNA
4 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (10.26%) OSCP
4 4 (10.26%) RHCE
4 4 (10.26%) RHCSA
5 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.13%) ISEB
6 2 (5.13%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (43.59%) QA
2 10 (25.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.26%) Squid
2 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (10.26%) VMware NSX
2 4 (10.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.95%) Ansible
2 7 (17.95%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Packer
3 4 (10.26%) ZABBIX
4 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Grafana
5 1 (2.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.51%) Oracle
2 8 (20.51%) Splunk
3 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
3 4 (10.26%) VMware
4 2 (5.13%) SAP
4 2 (5.13%) Workday
5 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.56%) Siebel