ISTQB Jobs in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 367 354
Rank change year-on-year +37 -13 +10
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 6 21 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.052% 0.12% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.090% 0.54% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 36
10th Percentile £28,438 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,156 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £51,063
90th Percentile - £57,500 £57,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +5.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,670 3,912 5,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 58.01% 22.38% 30.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,117 2,685 1,768
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £28,925
25th Percentile £40,748 £35,000 £38,787
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £48,734 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -11.20% +15.54%
75th Percentile £58,943 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,708 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

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

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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

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 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
North West +5 5 £55,000 +37.50% 14
Yorkshire +61 1 £29,750 -43.33% 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Moodle
1 1 (16.67%) Totara
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 5 (83.33%) Postman
3 4 (66.67%) Appium
3 4 (66.67%) Fiddler
3 4 (66.67%) JMeter
3 4 (66.67%) LoadRunner
3 4 (66.67%) Selenium
4 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (16.67%) YouTrack
General
1 4 (66.67%) Cantonese Language
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Financial Institution
1 4 (66.67%) Mandarin Language
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) QA Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Junior
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Junior Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
3 4 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 4 (66.67%) Fintech
3 4 (66.67%) Issue Tracking
3 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (66.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) User Experience
4 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) API Testing
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle