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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 322 392 410
Rank change year-on-year +70 +18 +162
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 50 32 37
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.25% 0.65% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 40 25 34
10th Percentile £40,368 £46,250 £45,375
25th Percentile £49,750 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.70% +22.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,375 £78,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,250 £84,325
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -

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 3,995 4,955 4,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.90% 31.85% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,104 2,004 3,454
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,738 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.21%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £117,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 6 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 6 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 +44 2 £73,000 +53.68% 1
West London - 2 £32,500 - 1
South London +34 1 - - 5
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 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Elite 3E
2 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (4.00%) Workday HCM
3 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (52.00%) Azure
2 20 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (24.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (18.00%) AWS
5 8 (16.00%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (14.00%) BrowserStack
6 7 (14.00%) GCP
7 4 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.00%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (4.00%) GitHub
9 2 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) DNS
1 3 (6.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Metadata
2 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (56.00%) JIRA
2 19 (38.00%) Selenium
3 11 (22.00%) Cypress.io
3 11 (22.00%) Postman
4 7 (14.00%) SpecFlow
5 6 (12.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (10.00%) GitLab
6 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
7 4 (8.00%) TestRail
7 4 (8.00%) Visual Studio
7 4 (8.00%) WebDriver
8 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (6.00%) NUnit
8 3 (6.00%) SoapUI
9 2 (4.00%) Appium
9 2 (4.00%) Gatling
9 2 (4.00%) NeoLoad
9 2 (4.00%) Ranorex
9 2 (4.00%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (58.00%) Finance
2 28 (56.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Banking
5 4 (8.00%) Law
5 4 (8.00%) Legal
6 3 (6.00%) Back Office
6 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Electronics
8 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.00%) Marketing
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Analyst
1 11 (22.00%) Lead
1 11 (22.00%) Test Analyst
1 11 (22.00%) Test Engineer
1 11 (22.00%) Test Leader
2 8 (16.00%) Test Manager
3 5 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) IT Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) QA Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) QA Test Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Tester
5 3 (6.00%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Financial Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
5 3 (6.00%) QA Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Quality Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) .NET
2 7 (14.00%) Playwright
3 5 (10.00%) HTML
4 4 (8.00%) XML
5 3 (6.00%) CSS
5 3 (6.00%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (6.00%) React
5 3 (6.00%) REST
6 2 (4.00%) GraphQL
6 2 (4.00%) SOAP
7 1 (2.00%) Spring
7 1 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
1 4 (8.00%) Reference Data
2 3 (6.00%) Derivative
2 3 (6.00%) Equities
2 3 (6.00%) Fixed Income
2 3 (6.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Linux
1 6 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (72.00%) Test Automation
2 33 (66.00%) Agile
3 24 (48.00%) Software Testing
4 22 (44.00%) Test Management
4 22 (44.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 21 (42.00%) DevOps
6 17 (34.00%) Test Strategy
7 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
8 15 (30.00%) Manual Testing
8 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (28.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 14 (28.00%) Test Scripting
10 13 (26.00%) Scrum
11 11 (22.00%) Regression Testing
11 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (20.00%) Defect Management
12 10 (20.00%) Performance Testing
13 9 (18.00%) AI
13 9 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (18.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) SQL
2 7 (14.00%) C#
3 6 (12.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 5 (10.00%) Java
4 5 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.00%) Bash
5 3 (6.00%) Bicep
5 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 10 (20.00%) ISEB
3 7 (14.00%) Degree
4 4 (8.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (36.00%) QA
2 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Ansible
1 3 (6.00%) HP ALM
1 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (6.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) iManage
3 3 (6.00%) HP
3 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.00%) SAP
3 3 (6.00%) Siebel
3 3 (6.00%) Splunk
4 2 (4.00%) CODA
4 2 (4.00%) Cognos
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
4 2 (4.00%) Sitecore
4 2 (4.00%) Workday
5 1 (2.00%) Ariba
5 1 (2.00%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.00%) OpenText