Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 615 703 666
Rank change year-on-year +88 -37 -132
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 112 416 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.64% 1.11% 1.48%
Number of salaries quoted 96 270 375
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £39,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,563 £60,394 £62,493
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ISEB is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,523 37,320 32,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 29.53% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10,978 17,212 17,882
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,102 £41,250 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £49,590
% change year-on-year +5.00% +0.83% +1.20%

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 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Top 13 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 30 November 2023. 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 +106 111 £55,000 +10.00% 33
UK excluding London +67 57 £50,000 - 26
London +230 51 £55,000 - 9
Work from Home +111 48 £55,000 +10.00% 16
South West +53 22 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Midlands +90 14 £41,500 -20.95% 1
South East +119 10 £47,500 +2.70% 8
East Midlands +56 10 £52,500 +23.53%
North of England +89 7 £59,000 +40.69% 8
East of England +114 4 £50,000 +53.85% 6
West Midlands +93 4 £38,500 -28.37% 1
North West +72 4 £54,500 +22.47% 3
Yorkshire +61 3 £60,000 +71.43% 5

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 8 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.36%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.79%) Open Workbench
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.93%) Azure
2 21 (18.75%) AWS
3 15 (13.39%) BrowserStack
4 14 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (10.71%) GitHub
6 8 (7.14%) SaaS
7 3 (2.68%) Sauce Labs
8 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) Intranet
1 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (29.46%) Selenium
2 22 (19.64%) JIRA
3 18 (16.07%) Cucumber
4 17 (15.18%) SpecFlow
5 13 (11.61%) NUnit
6 12 (10.71%) Git
6 12 (10.71%) Protractor
6 12 (10.71%) Visual Studio
7 11 (9.82%) Jenkins
7 11 (9.82%) Postman
8 8 (7.14%) git-flow
9 7 (6.25%) Bitbucket
9 7 (6.25%) Tricentis qTest
10 6 (5.36%) SoapUI
11 5 (4.46%) Cypress.io
11 5 (4.46%) WebDriver
12 3 (2.68%) Appium
12 3 (2.68%) JIRA Agile
12 3 (2.68%) Robolectric
12 3 (2.68%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (24.11%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.64%) Finance
3 16 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.93%) Law
6 5 (4.46%) Games
6 5 (4.46%) Legal
7 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.57%) Retail
8 2 (1.79%) Back Office
8 2 (1.79%) Banking
8 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Advertising
9 1 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Local Government
9 1 (0.89%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (38.39%) Analyst
2 32 (28.57%) Tester
3 27 (24.11%) Business Analyst
4 25 (22.32%) Automation Tester
5 16 (14.29%) Senior
6 15 (13.39%) Java Automation Tester
6 15 (13.39%) Software Tester
6 15 (13.39%) Test Analyst
7 14 (12.50%) Lead
8 11 (9.82%) Test Leader
9 8 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (6.25%) IT Analyst
11 6 (5.36%) Business IT Analyst
11 6 (5.36%) IT Business Analyst
11 6 (5.36%) QA Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Selenium Automation Tester
11 6 (5.36%) Selenium Tester
11 6 (5.36%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (5.36%) Test Manager
12 4 (3.57%) Business Change Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.14%) Gherkin
2 6 (5.36%) XML
3 5 (4.46%) SOAP
4 4 (3.57%) Spring
5 3 (2.68%) .NET
5 3 (2.68%) REST
6 1 (0.89%) ADO
6 1 (0.89%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.89%) CSS
6 1 (0.89%) HTML
6 1 (0.89%) Kafka
6 1 (0.89%) Node.js
6 1 (0.89%) Playwright
6 1 (0.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.93%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.89%) CMDB
6 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.89%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.89%) IoT
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.89%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.89%) Mobile Games
6 1 (0.89%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.93%) Windows
2 1 (0.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (58.04%) Agile
2 57 (50.89%) Test Automation
3 50 (44.64%) Software Testing
4 37 (33.04%) Test Scripting
5 34 (30.36%) BDD
6 33 (29.46%) DevOps
7 29 (25.89%) TDD
8 27 (24.11%) Business Analysis
9 25 (22.32%) Scrum
10 22 (19.64%) SDLC
11 20 (17.86%) Functional Testing
11 20 (17.86%) Manual Testing
12 19 (16.96%) SDET
13 17 (15.18%) Non-Functional Testing
13 17 (15.18%) User Acceptance Testing
14 12 (10.71%) CI/CD
14 12 (10.71%) Test Management
14 12 (10.71%) Test Strategy
14 12 (10.71%) Web Testing
15 11 (9.82%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.21%) Java
2 20 (17.86%) C#
2 20 (17.86%) SQL
3 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.68%) C++
4 3 (2.68%) Kotlin
4 3 (2.68%) Python
5 1 (0.89%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (61.61%) ISTQB
2 26 (23.21%) Degree
3 24 (21.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (3.57%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.68%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.79%) CISA
6 2 (1.79%) CISM
6 2 (1.79%) CRISC
6 2 (1.79%) IIBA
6 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.89%) APMP
7 1 (0.89%) CBAP
7 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.89%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.89%) MCP
7 1 (0.89%) PMP
7 1 (0.89%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (26.79%) QA
2 2 (1.79%) PMO
2 2 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) Firmware
2 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.46%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.89%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 5 (4.46%) HP
4 4 (3.57%) OpenText
4 4 (3.57%) Siebel
4 4 (3.57%) UiPath
5 3 (2.68%) SAP
6 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.89%) Google
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle