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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 362 479
Rank change year-on-year -4 +117 +102
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 45 45 19
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.23% 0.35% 0.082%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.00% 1.01% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 36 36 16
10th Percentile £39,125 £42,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £53,250 £46,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £69,063 £67,500 £54,063
90th Percentile £77,250 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -10.53%

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 4,501 4,434 6,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.26% 34.34% 28.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,432 2,047 4,249
10th Percentile £36,775 £40,961 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £116,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -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 19 April 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 April 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
West London - 2 £32,500 -
Central London +6 1 £75,000 +50.00% 4
South London - 1 - -
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 4 (8.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.44%) Workday HCM
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) Azure
2 19 (42.22%) AWS
3 14 (31.11%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (28.89%) GCP
5 11 (24.44%) BrowserStack
6 6 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.44%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (2.22%) Apigee
10 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.22%) BlazeMeter
10 1 (2.22%) Kong
10 1 (2.22%) SonarCloud
10 1 (2.22%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) DNS
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
1 3 (6.67%) IPv4
1 3 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (46.67%) Selenium
2 20 (44.44%) JIRA
3 10 (22.22%) Postman
4 8 (17.78%) Cypress.io
4 8 (17.78%) SpecFlow
5 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
6 6 (13.33%) GitLab
7 5 (11.11%) Git
8 4 (8.89%) Bitbucket
8 4 (8.89%) SoapUI
9 3 (6.67%) JUnit
9 3 (6.67%) Visual Studio
9 3 (6.67%) WebDriver
10 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
10 2 (4.44%) JMeter
10 2 (4.44%) NUnit
10 2 (4.44%) REST Assured
10 2 (4.44%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (4.44%) TestNG
10 2 (4.44%) TestRail
General
1 25 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (31.11%) Finance
3 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Electronics
4 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.67%) Advertising
5 3 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 3 (6.67%) Automotive
5 3 (6.67%) Back Office
5 3 (6.67%) Banking
5 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Lead
2 9 (20.00%) Analyst
2 9 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Development Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Software Development Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Software Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Test Development Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Test Leader
4 7 (15.56%) Tester
5 6 (13.33%) QA Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Test Manager
6 5 (11.11%) QA Analyst
6 5 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
7 4 (8.89%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) QA Automation Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
8 3 (6.67%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) .NET
1 6 (13.33%) Playwright
2 5 (11.11%) HTML
3 3 (6.67%) CSS
3 3 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (6.67%) React
3 3 (6.67%) REST
3 3 (6.67%) XML
4 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.44%) SOAP
4 2 (4.44%) Swagger
5 1 (2.22%) JWT
5 1 (2.22%) Kafka
5 1 (2.22%) OAuth
5 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.22%) Spring
5 1 (2.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Derivative
1 3 (6.67%) Equities
1 3 (6.67%) Fixed Income
1 3 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (6.67%) Housing Association
1 3 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) IoT
3 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Linux
1 9 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) Test Automation
2 28 (62.22%) Agile
3 26 (57.78%) CI/CD
4 22 (48.89%) Software Testing
5 20 (44.44%) Defect Management
5 20 (44.44%) DevOps
5 20 (44.44%) Manual Testing
6 18 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 18 (40.00%) Scrum
7 16 (35.56%) Test Strategy
8 15 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (24.44%) API Testing
10 11 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (24.44%) SDLC
10 11 (24.44%) Test Management
11 10 (22.22%) Performance Testing
11 10 (22.22%) Test Planning
12 9 (20.00%) Regression Testing
12 9 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.89%) TypeScript
2 11 (24.44%) C#
2 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
3 10 (22.22%) Java
3 10 (22.22%) Python
3 10 (22.22%) SQL
4 6 (13.33%) Bash
4 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 9 (20.00%) Degree
3 6 (13.33%) ISEB
4 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
6 3 (6.67%) CCNA
6 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.67%) OSCP
6 3 (6.67%) RHCE
6 3 (6.67%) RHCSA
7 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (46.67%) QA
2 10 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) Squid
2 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.67%) VMware NSX
2 3 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (13.33%) Ansible
2 6 (13.33%) Terraform
3 3 (6.67%) Packer
3 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (6.67%) ZABBIX
4 2 (4.44%) HP ALM
5 1 (2.22%) Grafana
5 1 (2.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Oracle
2 7 (15.56%) Splunk
3 4 (8.89%) SAP
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.67%) Siebel
4 3 (6.67%) VMware
5 2 (4.44%) HP
5 2 (4.44%) Workday
6 1 (2.22%) Ariba
6 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.22%) OpenText
6 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow