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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 420 420
Rank change year-on-year +58 0 +226
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 34 41 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.21% 0.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.99% 0.76% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 23 31 67
10th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,000 £56,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.74% +22.73% -6.20%
75th Percentile £65,500 £78,000 £68,250
90th Percentile £69,750 £78,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% +5.26%

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 3,446 5,401 5,712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.83% 28.01% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,917 2,554 4,252
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,283 £39,085
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +4.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £105,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% -6.37% +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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +31 1 - -
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 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 20 (58.82%) Azure
2 14 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (20.59%) AWS
4 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
5 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (8.82%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (8.82%) GitHub
7 2 (5.88%) BrowserStack
7 2 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.94%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Big Data
1 4 (11.76%) Delta Lake
1 4 (11.76%) Metadata
2 3 (8.82%) Power BI
3 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.94%) MySQL
4 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (58.82%) JIRA
2 15 (44.12%) Selenium
3 10 (29.41%) Postman
4 9 (26.47%) JMeter
5 5 (14.71%) Cypress.io
5 5 (14.71%) Locust
5 5 (14.71%) TestRail
6 4 (11.76%) Gatling
6 4 (11.76%) Git
6 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
6 4 (11.76%) Katalon Studio
6 4 (11.76%) Robot Framework
6 4 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
7 3 (8.82%) GitLab
8 2 (5.88%) NeoLoad
8 2 (5.88%) Ranorex
8 2 (5.88%) SpecFlow
8 2 (5.88%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (38.24%) Finance
3 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (23.53%) Legal
5 6 (17.65%) Law
6 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
7 4 (11.76%) Banking
8 2 (5.88%) Retail
9 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Test Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Test Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) Test Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) IT Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Test Leader
5 3 (8.82%) Tester
6 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (5.88%) Senior
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Workday Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Functional Tester
7 1 (2.94%) QA Leader
7 1 (2.94%) Security Tester
7 1 (2.94%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) CSS
1 4 (11.76%) HTML
1 4 (11.76%) pytest
1 4 (11.76%) YAML
2 3 (8.82%) .NET
2 3 (8.82%) Playwright
3 2 (5.88%) JSON
4 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.94%) JWT
4 1 (2.94%) Middleware
4 1 (2.94%) OAuth
4 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.94%) React
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Algorithms
1 4 (11.76%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.94%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.94%) NHS
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Agile
2 25 (73.53%) Test Automation
3 16 (47.06%) Performance Testing
4 15 (44.12%) CI/CD
4 15 (44.12%) DevOps
4 15 (44.12%) Software Testing
4 15 (44.12%) User Acceptance Testing
5 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (38.24%) Test Management
6 12 (35.29%) Manual Testing
6 12 (35.29%) Scrum
7 10 (29.41%) Security Testing
8 9 (26.47%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (26.47%) Test Strategy
9 8 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (23.53%) Functional Testing
9 8 (23.53%) Regression Testing
9 8 (23.53%) Waterfall
10 7 (20.59%) Non-Functional Testing
10 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) SQL
2 4 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (5.88%) C#
3 2 (5.88%) Java
3 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 5 (14.71%) ISEB
3 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (35.29%) QA
2 4 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.94%) NCSC
3 1 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (2.94%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (2.94%) Nessus
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Databricks
2 4 (11.76%) iManage
3 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.82%) Sitecore
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk
4 2 (5.88%) Workday
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Micro Focus