ISTQB Jobs 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 465 512
Rank change year-on-year +96 +47 +148
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 37 37 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.89% 0.55% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 29 29 69
10th Percentile £42,500 £29,800 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,750 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.57% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £57,500
90th Percentile - £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £45,000 £48,836
% change year-on-year +17.78% -7.85% +8.52%

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 4,172 6,670 8,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 32.14% 27.39% 26.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,895 4,004 5,205
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -0.74% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,250 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in London

ISTQB
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in London.

Salary trend for ISTQB in London

ISTQB
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025. 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 +35 4 £65,000 -14.47% 8
ISTQB
England

ISTQB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) Azure
2 15 (40.54%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (16.22%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub
6 2 (5.41%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.41%) GCP
6 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.70%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (2.70%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
7 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
2 4 (10.81%) Big Data
2 4 (10.81%) Delta Lake
3 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.70%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 24 (64.86%) Selenium
2 15 (40.54%) JIRA
3 14 (37.84%) JMeter
4 12 (32.43%) Postman
5 9 (24.32%) TestRail
6 5 (13.51%) Cypress.io
6 5 (13.51%) JUnit
6 5 (13.51%) Katalon Studio
6 5 (13.51%) Locust
7 4 (10.81%) Appium
7 4 (10.81%) Gatling
7 4 (10.81%) Git
7 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
7 4 (10.81%) LoadRunner
7 4 (10.81%) REST Assured
7 4 (10.81%) Robot Framework
7 4 (10.81%) SoapUI
8 3 (8.11%) GitLab
9 2 (5.41%) SpecFlow
9 2 (5.41%) TestNG
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Legal
3 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 4 (10.81%) Law
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) QA Engineer
1 8 (21.62%) Tester
2 7 (18.92%) Test Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) QA Leader
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Test Analyst
5 3 (8.11%) Test Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Functional Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Integration Tester
6 2 (5.41%) QA Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) QA Specialist
6 2 (5.41%) Quality Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Software QA Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Software Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) CSS
1 5 (13.51%) HTML
1 5 (13.51%) REST
1 5 (13.51%) YAML
2 4 (10.81%) pytest
3 3 (8.11%) JSON
3 3 (8.11%) JWT
3 3 (8.11%) Node.js
3 3 (8.11%) OAuth
4 2 (5.41%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.41%) Kafka
4 2 (5.41%) Playwright
4 2 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
4 2 (5.41%) SAML
5 1 (2.70%) .NET
5 1 (2.70%) Middleware
5 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.70%) Web Services
5 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.70%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (2.70%) Digital Media
2 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.70%) NHS
2 1 (2.70%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (89.19%) Test Automation
2 32 (86.49%) Agile
3 26 (70.27%) Manual Testing
4 17 (45.95%) DevOps
4 17 (45.95%) Performance Testing
5 16 (43.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (43.24%) Software Testing
6 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
6 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (37.84%) Security Testing
7 13 (35.14%) Scrum
8 11 (29.73%) Test Management
8 11 (29.73%) Test Planning
9 9 (24.32%) OWASP
9 9 (24.32%) Test Strategy
10 8 (21.62%) Functional Testing
10 8 (21.62%) PRINCE2
10 8 (21.62%) Regression Testing
10 8 (21.62%) Test Scripting
10 8 (21.62%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) JavaScript
2 6 (16.22%) Python
3 5 (13.51%) C#
3 5 (13.51%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) ISEB
4 5 (13.51%) Degree
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
5 4 (10.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (10.81%) PMI Certification
5 4 (10.81%) PMP
6 3 (8.11%) CISSP
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (2.70%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (2.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (67.57%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
4 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (21.62%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.81%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (10.81%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Databricks
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.41%) Splunk
3 2 (5.41%) Workday
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) Reuters
4 1 (2.70%) Sitecore