ISEB Job Trends

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 15 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 620 675 626
Rank change year-on-year +55 -49 +77
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 29 36 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.067% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.15% 0.18% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 22 30 79
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £35,408
25th Percentile £40,319 £37,188 £45,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,813 £67,500 £60,500
90th Percentile £71,475 £88,750 £74,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £41,000 £41,250 £48,750
% change year-on-year -0.61% -15.38% -2.50%

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 19,231 19,593 16,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.90% 36.56% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,799 7,678 10,906
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,908 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +4.19% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,128
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.57% +2.26%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ISEB job vacancy trend in the UK

ISEB
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISEB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ISEB

ISEB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISEB over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Top 10 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 15 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
England +52 25 £45,000 -21.74% 7
UK excluding London +30 13 £41,000 -0.61% 6
London +61 11 £67,500 +3.85% 1
South East +30 9 £41,250 +13.79% 1
Work from Home +61 5 £45,000 -28.00% 1
North of England +15 2 £41,000 -34.40% 3
East of England +26 1 £70,000 +86.67% 1
South West -2 1 £35,250 +0.71%
North East - 1 £41,000 - 2
North West - 1 - - 1

ISEB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (3.45%) CMS
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (6.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.45%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
1 10 (34.48%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (10.34%) BrowserStack
3 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.90%) GitHub
3 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Selenium
2 7 (24.14%) SpecFlow
3 4 (13.79%) JIRA
4 3 (10.34%) NUnit
4 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
5 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.90%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (3.45%) Eclipse
6 1 (3.45%) GitLab
6 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.45%) JMeter
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Back Office
4 4 (13.79%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (68.97%) Analyst
2 16 (55.17%) Test Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Automation Test Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Banking Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Business Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Financial Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) QA Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) QA Test Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Quality Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Test Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Test Leader
5 2 (6.90%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Senior
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (37.93%) .NET
2 4 (13.79%) CSS
2 4 (13.79%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (13.79%) Gherkin
2 4 (13.79%) HTML
2 4 (13.79%) Playwright
2 4 (13.79%) React
3 3 (10.34%) XML
4 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
4 2 (6.90%) REST
5 1 (3.45%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.79%) Derivative
2 4 (13.79%) Equities
2 4 (13.79%) Fixed Income
2 4 (13.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.90%) PMI
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Software Testing
1 16 (55.17%) Test Automation
2 14 (48.28%) Agile
3 13 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (44.83%) Test Scripting
4 11 (37.93%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 9 (31.03%) Scrum
6 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
6 7 (24.14%) Regression Testing
7 6 (20.69%) Code Quality
7 6 (20.69%) Logistics
7 6 (20.69%) Manual Testing
7 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (20.69%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (17.24%) SDLC
9 4 (13.79%) Asset Management
9 4 (13.79%) BDD
9 4 (13.79%) Business Analysis
9 4 (13.79%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) C#
3 5 (17.24%) Java
3 5 (17.24%) Python
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (79.31%) ISTQB
2 12 (41.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 6 (20.69%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) PMI Certification
5 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.45%) CBAP
6 1 (3.45%) CITP
6 1 (3.45%) PMP
6 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) QA
2 6 (20.69%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) HP
2 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
2 3 (10.34%) Siebel
3 2 (6.90%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.45%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) Micro Focus
4 1 (3.45%) NCR
4 1 (3.45%) OpenText
4 1 (3.45%) YouTube