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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 339 428
Rank change year-on-year -71 +89 +35
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 18 48 36
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.075% 0.40% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.38% 1.36% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 11 34 28
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,875 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £58,250 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% -12.73% +21.36%
75th Percentile £69,375 £67,500 £78,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,375 £78,750
England median annual salary £51,250 £53,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +24.71% -15.00%

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 4,788 3,532 5,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.00% 29.12% 27.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,844 1,943 2,831
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,713 £49,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,000 £102,500
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 August 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 August 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 -2 3 £57,500 -2.13% 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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (44.44%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) Apigee
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Kong
5 1 (5.56%) SonarCloud
5 1 (5.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) IPv4
1 4 (22.22%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
2 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) Selenium
3 6 (33.33%) Postman
4 5 (27.78%) Bitbucket
4 5 (27.78%) Git
5 4 (22.22%) GitLab
5 4 (22.22%) JMeter
5 4 (22.22%) SpecFlow
6 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (5.56%) IntelliJ
7 1 (5.56%) JUnit
7 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
7 1 (5.56%) Maven
7 1 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
7 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
7 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
7 1 (5.56%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Aerospace
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Automotive
2 4 (22.22%) Electronics
2 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 3 (16.67%) Advertising
3 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Lead
2 5 (27.78%) Tester
3 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Automation Tester
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Tester
4 3 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) QA Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Manual Tester
5 2 (11.11%) Test Leader
5 2 (11.11%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Tester
6 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Test Consultant
6 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) JWT
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
1 1 (5.56%) Playwright
1 1 (5.56%) Swagger
1 1 (5.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (22.22%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (16.67%) Housing Association
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Agile
1 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 11 (61.11%) DevOps
3 10 (55.56%) Test Automation
4 9 (50.00%) Scrum
5 8 (44.44%) Manual Testing
5 8 (44.44%) Migration
6 7 (38.89%) Regression Testing
7 6 (33.33%) Test Strategy
7 6 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (27.78%) Integration Testing
8 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (22.22%) API Testing
9 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 4 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
9 4 (22.22%) Cyber Intelligence
9 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
9 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
9 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 8 (44.44%) Python
3 7 (38.89%) Bash
3 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
4 5 (27.78%) C#
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 4 (22.22%) CCNA
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (22.22%) OSCP
2 4 (22.22%) RHCE
2 4 (22.22%) RHCSA
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (61.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) Squid
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) VMware NSX
2 4 (22.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 4 (22.22%) Packer
3 4 (22.22%) ZABBIX
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Workday