ISTQB Foundation Certification Job Trends in Surrey

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) formerly ISEB Foundation
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for ISTQB Foundation Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 124 -
Rank change year-on-year +29 - -
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.27% 0.057% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.81% 0.15% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
South East median annual salary £46,250 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.91% +15.79% +11.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

ISTQB Foundation Certification 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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 372 682 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 33.07% 39.08% 42.65%
Number of salaries quoted 270 285 219
10th Percentile £27,024 £31,250 £28,700
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,938 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £79,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.42% +0.10%

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ISTQB Foundation Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

ISTQB Foundation Certification job vacancy trend in Surrey

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing ISTQB Foundation Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing ISTQB Foundation Certification

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Woking - 2 - -
ISTQB Foundation Certification
South East

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) Robot Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Biopharmaceutical
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Informatics
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum-ban
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GxP