ISTQB Advanced Certification Job Trends in Swansea

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Advanced Level (CTAL) formerly ISEB Advanced
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Swansea with a requirement for ISTQB Advanced Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB Advanced Certification 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.72% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.06% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £41,750 - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile £48,250 - -
West Wales median annual salary £45,000 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Swansea

ISTQB Advanced 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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 97 17 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 34.77% 34.00% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26 15 21
10th Percentile £35,663 - £31,250
25th Percentile £46,670 £21,250 £42,139
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,902 £37,733 £51,997
Median % change year-on-year +61.40% -27.43% +29.99%
75th Percentile £78,150 £51,804 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,921 £59,857 £65,000
West Wales median annual salary £51,709 £37,733 £51,997
% change year-on-year +37.04% -27.43% +29.99%

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Newman
2 1 (50.00%) Pa11y
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG