ISTQB Jobs in the North of England

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 338 353
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 -33
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 22 95 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.13% 0.55% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.56% 1.81% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 12 40 63
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -2.22% +23.29%
75th Percentile £54,688 £49,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £57,500 £52,339
England median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

ISTQB is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,895 5,255 5,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.54% 30.20% 28.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,664 1,760 2,489
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,975 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,007 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,537 £64,106
90th Percentile £78,061 £83,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,193 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.49% +5.81% -

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in the North of England

ISTQB
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in the North of England.

Salary trend for ISTQB in the North of England

ISTQB
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for ISTQB in the North of England

ISTQB
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
Yorkshire +32 16 £53,750 +26.47% 1
North West -7 6 £40,000 -15.79% 7
ISTQB
England

ISTQB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Composer
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Functions
2 4 (18.18%) dbt
2 4 (18.18%) GCP
2 4 (18.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 4 (18.18%) Snowflake
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) AWS
4 1 (4.55%) BrowserStack
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) Internet
1 1 (4.55%) Multicast
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 4 (18.18%) Tableau
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Selenium
2 7 (31.82%) JMeter
3 6 (27.27%) LoadRunner
4 5 (22.73%) HP UFT
4 5 (22.73%) MSTest
4 5 (22.73%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (18.18%) Postman
5 4 (18.18%) SpecFlow
6 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
6 3 (13.64%) JIRA
7 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
7 2 (9.09%) WebDriver
8 1 (4.55%) Appium
8 1 (4.55%) Git
8 1 (4.55%) Maven
8 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
8 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
8 1 (4.55%) Subversion
8 1 (4.55%) TestNG
8 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Automotive
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Agriculture
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Test Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Tester
3 3 (13.64%) Automation Tester
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Software Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) QA Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) QA Automation Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) QA Automation Tester
4 2 (9.09%) QA Leader
4 2 (9.09%) QA Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Selenium Automation Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Selenium Test Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Selenium Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Senior QA Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior QA Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.55%) ADO
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) EDI
2 1 (4.55%) Laravel
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Agile
2 15 (68.18%) Test Automation
3 13 (59.09%) Software Testing
4 10 (45.45%) Defect Management
4 10 (45.45%) Test Scripting
5 9 (40.91%) Computer Science
6 8 (36.36%) Performance Testing
6 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (31.82%) Regression Testing
8 6 (27.27%) BDD
8 6 (27.27%) Functional Testing
8 6 (27.27%) Test Planning
9 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
9 5 (22.73%) Incident Management
9 5 (22.73%) ITIL
9 5 (22.73%) Knowledge Management
9 5 (22.73%) SDLC
10 4 (18.18%) Data Engineering
10 4 (18.18%) Data Science
10 4 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 3 (13.64%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (22.73%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (18.18%) ISEB
3 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
5 2 (9.09%) HND
6 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Peregrine