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 30 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 355 410
Rank change year-on-year -80 +55 +7
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 21 32 44
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.081% 0.27% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.43% 0.94% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 34
10th Percentile £44,450 £45,750 £47,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £53,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.05% -21.32% +23.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,500 £78,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £69,875 £78,525
England median annual salary £51,250 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +8.42% -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 4,857 3,420 5,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.77% 29.10% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,854 1,894 2,365
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,192 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -1.15% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -2.54%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +5 3 £57,500 - 2
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 6 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.76%) Apigee
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Kong
5 1 (4.76%) SonarCloud
5 1 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) IPv4
1 4 (19.05%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) JIRA
2 8 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) Selenium
3 6 (28.57%) Postman
4 5 (23.81%) Bitbucket
4 5 (23.81%) JMeter
5 4 (19.05%) Git
5 4 (19.05%) GitLab
5 4 (19.05%) SpecFlow
6 3 (14.29%) Cypress.io
7 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
8 1 (4.76%) Maven
8 1 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
8 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
8 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
8 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
8 1 (4.76%) TestRail
8 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
8 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Aerospace
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Automotive
2 4 (19.05%) Electronics
2 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 3 (14.29%) Advertising
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Lead
2 6 (28.57%) Tester
3 4 (19.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Test Leader
4 3 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Tester
4 3 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Test Manager
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Manual Tester
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Tester
6 1 (4.76%) Telephony Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) JWT
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.76%) Playwright
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) Swagger
2 1 (4.76%) WireMock
2 1 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (19.05%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (14.29%) Housing Association
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
1 14 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 13 (61.90%) Test Automation
3 8 (38.10%) Manual Testing
3 8 (38.10%) Migration
3 8 (38.10%) Scrum
3 8 (38.10%) Test Strategy
3 8 (38.10%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (33.33%) Regression Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Integration Testing
6 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
6 5 (23.81%) DevSecOps
6 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (23.81%) Performance Monitoring
6 5 (23.81%) Test Management
6 5 (23.81%) Validation
7 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Java
2 7 (33.33%) Bash
2 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (19.05%) AWS Certification
2 4 (19.05%) CCNA
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (19.05%) OSCP
2 4 (19.05%) RHCE
2 4 (19.05%) RHCSA
2 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) Squid
2 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (19.05%) VMware NSX
2 4 (19.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Ansible
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (19.05%) Packer
3 4 (19.05%) ZABBIX
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Oracle
2 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
3 4 (19.05%) Splunk
3 4 (19.05%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.76%) Qualtrics
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Verint
4 1 (4.76%) Workday
4 1 (4.76%) YouTube