ISTQB Jobs in the UK excluding London

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 610 474
Rank change year-on-year +282 -136 -31
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 240 141 319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.20% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.21% 0.73% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 80 106 163
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,250 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -7.47% -3.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £51,862 £52,746
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £57,900
UK median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +5.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,796 19,351 22,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 53.97% 27.68% 36.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8,693 12,242 8,328
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,122 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £57,810
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.59% +5.11%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in the UK excluding London

ISTQB
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for ISTQB in the UK excluding London

ISTQB
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Salary histogram for ISTQB in the UK excluding London

ISTQB
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 ISTQB within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Midlands +193 181 £67,500 +36.84% 26
West Midlands +144 127 £67,500 +19.15% 19
East Midlands +94 54 £33,500 -8.22% 7
South East +91 32 £47,500 +11.76% 31
South West +104 14 £34,500 -8.00% 15
North of England +46 6 £55,000 +22.22% 27
Wales +45 5 £68,500 +5.38% 3
North West +31 5 £55,000 +37.50% 12
Scotland +120 1 £55,000 +57.14% 5
Yorkshire +62 1 £29,750 -44.65% 13
East of England +49 1 £45,000 +12.50% 11
ISTQB
UK

ISTQB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (1.67%) Confluence
2 1 (0.42%) Moodle
2 1 (0.42%) Totara
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Magento
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 12 (5.00%) Azure
2 9 (3.75%) SaaS
3 6 (2.50%) AWS
4 5 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (1.67%) GCP
6 3 (1.25%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.42%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.58%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.67%) MySQL
2 1 (0.42%) Power BI
2 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (16.25%) Selenium
2 37 (15.42%) JIRA
3 14 (5.83%) Postman
4 8 (3.33%) Appium
4 8 (3.33%) JMeter
5 5 (2.08%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.67%) Fiddler
6 4 (1.67%) LoadRunner
7 3 (1.25%) Maven
7 3 (1.25%) TestRail
8 2 (0.83%) Git
8 2 (0.83%) JUnit
8 2 (0.83%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.83%) TestNG
8 2 (0.83%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.42%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.42%) Mocha
9 1 (0.42%) Redmine
9 1 (0.42%) YouTrack
General
1 28 (11.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (5.00%) Finance
4 4 (1.67%) Cantonese Language
4 4 (1.67%) Financial Institution
4 4 (1.67%) Mandarin Language
4 4 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (1.67%) Retail
5 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
5 1 (0.42%) Games
5 1 (0.42%) Law
5 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.42%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 167 (69.58%) Validation Engineer
2 150 (62.50%) Integration Engineer
3 149 (62.08%) Principal Engineer
3 149 (62.08%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 149 (62.08%) System Verification Engineer
3 149 (62.08%) Systems Integration Engineer
4 42 (17.50%) Analyst
5 41 (17.08%) Test Analyst
6 23 (9.58%) Senior
7 21 (8.75%) Senior Analyst
7 21 (8.75%) Senior Test Analyst
8 20 (8.33%) Lead
9 19 (7.92%) Automation Engineer
10 15 (6.25%) Test Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Tester
12 8 (3.33%) Software Test Engineer
13 7 (2.92%) QA Tester
14 6 (2.50%) QA Analyst
15 5 (2.08%) QA Test Analyst
16 4 (1.67%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.67%) Web Services
2 3 (1.25%) Gherkin
2 3 (1.25%) Playwright
3 2 (0.83%) ADO
4 1 (0.42%) .NET
4 1 (0.42%) boto
4 1 (0.42%) Jest
4 1 (0.42%) JSON
4 1 (0.42%) Middleware
4 1 (0.42%) REST
4 1 (0.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.50%) Operational Technology
1 18 (7.50%) SCADA
2 7 (2.92%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (0.83%) Driving Licence
4 2 (0.83%) Low-Code
4 2 (0.83%) Management Information System
4 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
4 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.42%) Blog
5 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.42%) EPoS
5 1 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.58%) Linux
2 7 (2.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (70.00%) Validation
2 150 (62.50%) Systems Engineering
3 149 (62.08%) Verification and Validation
4 66 (27.50%) Test Automation
5 37 (15.42%) Agile
6 34 (14.17%) Software Testing
7 33 (13.75%) Manual Testing
8 22 (9.17%) Computer Science
8 22 (9.17%) Mentoring
9 19 (7.92%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (7.50%) Model Validation
10 18 (7.50%) Penetration Testing
10 18 (7.50%) Test Scripting
11 16 (6.67%) V-Model
11 16 (6.67%) Waterfall
12 15 (6.25%) Regression Testing
13 14 (5.83%) DevOps
14 13 (5.42%) Test Strategy
15 11 (4.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (6.67%) Python
2 12 (5.00%) SQL
3 11 (4.58%) JavaScript
4 8 (3.33%) Java
5 4 (1.67%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.25%) C#
7 1 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 182 (75.83%) Degree
2 149 (62.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 149 (62.08%) Chartered Engineer
3 20 (8.33%) Security Cleared
4 18 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (2.50%) ISEB
7 3 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.42%) CSQA
9 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.00%) QA
2 3 (1.25%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 16 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.50%) Oracle
3 3 (1.25%) SAP
4 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.42%) Cognos
4 1 (0.42%) Concur
4 1 (0.42%) Spotify