ISEB Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 545 514
Rank change year-on-year +45 -31 +43
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 14 19 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.052% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.099% 0.14% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 13 14 43
10th Percentile - £25,209 £33,208
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,563 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £41,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -13.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,438 £59,375
90th Percentile - £59,475 £77,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

ISEB 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,106 13,783 10,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.62% 37.69% 31.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,097 5,301 6,668
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,123 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,122 £55,000 £51,589
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +6.61% +3.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ISEB relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ISEB job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ISEB
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ISEB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ISEB

ISEB
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISEB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ISEB in the UK excluding London

ISEB
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
South East +23 11 £37,500 +3.45%
East of England +26 1 £70,000 +86.67% 1
North of England +24 1 £41,000 -34.40% 6
South West +7 1 £35,250 +0.71%
North East - 1 £41,000 - 2
ISEB
UK

ISEB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.14%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
1 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Selenium
1 4 (28.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Law
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Analyst
2 13 (92.86%) Test Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
1 4 (28.57%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Software Testing
2 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) Mentoring
4 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 7 (50.00%) DevOps
4 7 (50.00%) Logistics
4 7 (50.00%) Scrum
5 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
6 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
7 4 (28.57%) BDD
7 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
7 4 (28.57%) Project Planning
7 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
8 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (7.14%) MoSCoW
9 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) ISTQB
2 5 (35.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
4 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) QA
1 7 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) NCR