ISTQB Jobs in the South West

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 265 228
Rank change year-on-year +102 -37 -44
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 15 28 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.40% 0.27% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.90% 0.82% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 13 13 30
10th Percentile - £27,450 £34,750
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -27.88% +22.35%
75th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £62,313
90th Percentile £63,500 £53,650 £72,275
England median annual salary £53,000 £45,000 £48,836
% change year-on-year +17.78% -7.85% +8.52%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,670 3,424 2,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 44.47% 32.73% 43.97%
Number of salaries quoted 936 2,195 1,379
10th Percentile £29,563 £30,000 £30,431
25th Percentile £34,500 £41,250 £38,033
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,729 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,500 £68,750 £72,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,800
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in the South West.

Salary trend for ISTQB in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in the South West over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for ISTQB in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Wiltshire +36 8 £34,500 -1.43% 4
Gloucestershire +65 2 £85,000 +106.06% 17
Dorset +39 2 £48,750 +50.00% 3
Devon +29 2 £40,000 - 7
Bristol +68 1 £40,000 -20.00% 14
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Magento
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) Selenium
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA
3 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (20.00%) Zephyr
4 2 (13.33%) CircleCI
4 2 (13.33%) Gatling
4 2 (13.33%) GitLab
4 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (13.33%) JUnit
4 2 (13.33%) LoadRunner
4 2 (13.33%) Locust
4 2 (13.33%) TestRail
5 1 (6.67%) git-flow
5 1 (6.67%) NUnit
5 1 (6.67%) Postman
5 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) QA Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Software QA Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Software Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) boto
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (6.67%) EPoS
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Software Testing
2 9 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Test Automation
4 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) Time Management
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Scrum
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Integration Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
7 3 (20.00%) SDLC
7 3 (20.00%) Test Management
8 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
8 2 (13.33%) Exploratory Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Microservices
8 2 (13.33%) Performance Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
8 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (13.33%) ISEB
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian