Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 766 657 693
Rank change year-on-year -109 +36 -31
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 76 234 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.29% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% 0.86% 1.41%
Number of salaries quoted 55 148 371
10th Percentile £31,750 £36,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £44,179 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,664 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% +5.33% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £60,697
90th Percentile £78,000 £90,000 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £49,972 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.95% +5.20% -5.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 23,768 27,219 48,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.30% 33.73% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13,396 13,767 20,158
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,425 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% +2.11%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ISEB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISEB.

Salary trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISEB over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England -86 75 £52,500 - 8
UK excluding London -103 43 £45,000 -9.95% 7
London +37 33 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Work from Home -29 20 £55,000 - 1
South West -8 12 £42,500 -15.00%
South East -3 11 £42,500 -7.61% 3
North of England -15 11 £60,000 +36.36% 2
North West -10 7 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Midlands -52 5 £23,240 -53.52%
Yorkshire +36 4 £45,000 +3.45% 1
East of England -5 3 £50,000 -
West Midlands -25 3 £23,240 -57.75%
East Midlands -37 2 £53,750 +13.16%
Scotland -45 1 £35,000 -46.15%

ISEB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.63%) CMS
1 2 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (6.58%) MS Visio
3 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.32%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.42%) Azure
2 12 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (9.21%) AWS
3 7 (9.21%) BrowserStack
4 5 (6.58%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.26%) Datadog
5 4 (5.26%) GitHub
5 4 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.63%) Serverless
7 1 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) ATM
1 1 (1.32%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.32%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.95%) Power BI
1 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (31.58%) JIRA
2 20 (26.32%) Selenium
3 11 (14.47%) SpecFlow
4 10 (13.16%) NUnit
5 6 (7.89%) Visual Studio
6 5 (6.58%) Postman
7 3 (3.95%) Bugzilla
7 3 (3.95%) Git
7 3 (3.95%) TestComplete
8 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
8 2 (2.63%) JMeter
8 2 (2.63%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.32%) Subversion
9 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
9 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.89%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (18.42%) Finance
4 10 (13.16%) Legal
5 9 (11.84%) Law
5 9 (11.84%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (10.53%) Marketing
7 6 (7.89%) Banking
7 6 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (5.26%) Back Office
10 3 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.95%) Games
11 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 1 (1.32%) Electronics
12 1 (1.32%) Front Office
12 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 1 (1.32%) Social Housing
12 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (31.58%) Analyst
2 15 (19.74%) Lead
3 13 (17.11%) Test Leader
4 11 (14.47%) Business Analyst
4 11 (14.47%) Tester
5 8 (10.53%) Test Analyst
5 8 (10.53%) Test Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) QA Analyst
7 5 (6.58%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Games Tester
8 3 (3.95%) Implementation Manager
8 3 (3.95%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Release Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Software Tester
9 2 (2.63%) Legal Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Manual Tester
9 2 (2.63%) QA Manager
9 2 (2.63%) Service Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.79%) XML
2 7 (9.21%) Playwright
3 3 (3.95%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (3.95%) RESTful
3 3 (3.95%) Spring
4 2 (2.63%) REST
5 1 (1.32%) CSS
5 1 (1.32%) DOM
5 1 (1.32%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.95%) Bitcoin
4 3 (3.95%) Derivative
4 3 (3.95%) Equities
4 3 (3.95%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
1 4 (5.26%) Windows
2 3 (3.95%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) Android
3 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.32%) CentOS
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (59.21%) Agile
2 37 (48.68%) Test Automation
3 27 (35.53%) Software Testing
4 24 (31.58%) SDLC
5 21 (27.63%) CI/CD
6 20 (26.32%) Test Scripting
7 19 (25.00%) DevOps
8 16 (21.05%) Manual Testing
8 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (19.74%) Process Improvement
9 15 (19.74%) Scrum
10 14 (18.42%) CRM
11 13 (17.11%) Defect Management
12 12 (15.79%) PRINCE2
13 11 (14.47%) ITIL
13 11 (14.47%) Test Management
14 10 (13.16%) ETL
14 10 (13.16%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.95%) SQL
2 13 (17.11%) Python
3 11 (14.47%) C#
4 5 (6.58%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.26%) Java
6 3 (3.95%) C++
6 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (48.68%) ISTQB
2 17 (22.37%) Degree
3 16 (21.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 6 (7.89%) APMP
4 6 (7.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 4 (5.26%) ISEB Practitioner
6 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.32%) CBAP
8 1 (1.32%) CISA
8 1 (1.32%) CISM
8 1 (1.32%) CISSP
8 1 (1.32%) CRISC
8 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (28.95%) QA
2 8 (10.53%) GDPR
3 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.95%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.95%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (2.63%) ISO 14001
5 1 (1.32%) COBIT
5 1 (1.32%) NIST
5 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (6.58%) HP
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.95%) OpenText
3 3 (3.95%) Siebel
4 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle
5 1 (1.32%) SAP
5 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow