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 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB Advanced Certification 4 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.79% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.12% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £42,750 - -
25th Percentile £45,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median annual salary £47,500 - -

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 15 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 19.17% 36.59% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 43 10 20
10th Percentile £35,250 - £31,750
25th Percentile £41,875 £21,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,709 £33,838 £51,997
Median % change year-on-year +52.81% -34.92% +12.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £59,857 £64,331
90th Percentile £80,000 £61,273 £73,299
West Wales median annual salary £51,619 £33,838 £50,249
% change year-on-year +52.55% -32.66% +8.74%

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

ISTQB Advanced Certification job vacancy trend in Swansea

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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
1 4 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) Newman
2 3 (75.00%) TestRail
3 1 (25.00%) Burp Suite
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Gatling
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Pa11y
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
1 3 (75.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Node.js
1 4 (100.00%) Playwright
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) Jest
2 3 (75.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Management
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 3 (75.00%) Community of Practice
2 3 (75.00%) Defect Tracking
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (75.00%) Resilience Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 4 (100.00%) WCAG