International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 5 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 556 544 650
Rank change year-on-year -12 +106 -196
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 183 668 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.54% 0.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.05% 1.82% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 143 372 395
10th Percentile £32,600 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,950 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ISTQB 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 17,369 36,781 31,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.51% 29.62% 24.80%
Number of salaries quoted 10,901 17,018 17,748
10th Percentile £31,207 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,384 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.20% +4.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £73,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.04%

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in the UK

ISTQB
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for ISTQB in the UK

ISTQB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISTQB over the 6 months to 5 December 2023.

Salary histogram for ISTQB in the UK

ISTQB
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 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 +8 161 £50,000 - 51
UK excluding London -33 131 £47,500 +5.56% 49
Work from Home +55 74 £50,000 - 36
South West +24 47 £47,500 -1.55% 6
London +162 45 £55,000 - 13
South East +81 22 £45,000 +3.45% 20
Midlands +45 21 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Scotland +62 17 £45,000 +42.86% 5
West Midlands +73 15 £50,000 +8.11% 1
North of England +48 12 £55,000 +15.79% 7
East of England +110 11 £50,000 +53.85% 3
Yorkshire +52 7 £65,000 +33.33% 3
East Midlands +10 6 £35,125 -17.35% 3
North West +81 4 £50,000 +11.11% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £35,000 - 2

ISTQB
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 11 (6.01%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 17 (9.29%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.83%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.73%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 50 (27.32%) Azure
2 24 (13.11%) AWS
2 24 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (8.20%) BrowserStack
4 14 (7.65%) SaaS
5 12 (6.56%) GitHub
6 3 (1.64%) GCP
6 3 (1.64%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.09%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (1.09%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.09%) CloudBees
7 2 (1.09%) dbt
7 2 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.09%) Serverless
7 2 (1.09%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) Firewall
1 3 (1.64%) PuTTY
1 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.64%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.55%) Internet
2 1 (0.55%) Intranet
2 1 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.37%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.09%) OLTP
2 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
2 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (1.09%) Tableau
3 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (30.05%) Selenium
2 33 (18.03%) JIRA
3 23 (12.57%) Cucumber
4 18 (9.84%) Git
4 18 (9.84%) Postman
4 18 (9.84%) SpecFlow
5 16 (8.74%) Jenkins
6 14 (7.65%) Protractor
7 13 (7.10%) NUnit
7 13 (7.10%) TestRail
8 12 (6.56%) Visual Studio
9 11 (6.01%) SoapUI
10 8 (4.37%) Cypress.io
10 8 (4.37%) git-flow
10 8 (4.37%) JUnit
10 8 (4.37%) TestNG
11 7 (3.83%) Bitbucket
11 7 (3.83%) Tricentis qTest
12 6 (3.28%) Appium
12 6 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 39 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.85%) Finance
3 26 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (6.01%) Retail
6 8 (4.37%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.28%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.73%) Aviation
8 5 (2.73%) Electronics
8 5 (2.73%) Games
8 5 (2.73%) Legal
8 5 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.19%) Banking
9 4 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Automotive
10 3 (1.64%) Law
10 3 (1.64%) Military
11 2 (1.09%) Advertising
11 2 (1.09%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (26.23%) Tester
2 43 (23.50%) Analyst
3 31 (16.94%) Test Analyst
4 27 (14.75%) Automation Tester
5 26 (14.21%) Senior
6 25 (13.66%) Lead
6 25 (13.66%) Test Engineer
6 25 (13.66%) Test Leader
7 22 (12.02%) Software Tester
8 21 (11.48%) Test Manager
9 16 (8.74%) QA Engineer
10 15 (8.20%) Java Automation Tester
11 10 (5.46%) Software Test Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Senior Test Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Test Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.37%) Testing Analyst
13 6 (3.28%) Selenium Automation Tester
13 6 (3.28%) Selenium Tester
13 6 (3.28%) Senior QA Engineer
14 5 (2.73%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.65%) Gherkin
2 7 (3.83%) SOAP
2 7 (3.83%) XML
3 6 (3.28%) REST
4 4 (2.19%) .NET
4 4 (2.19%) GraphQL
4 4 (2.19%) Middleware
4 4 (2.19%) Playwright
4 4 (2.19%) Spring
4 4 (2.19%) Web Services
5 2 (1.09%) JavaFX
5 2 (1.09%) JSON
5 2 (1.09%) pytest
5 2 (1.09%) RESTful
5 2 (1.09%) Sphinx
6 1 (0.55%) ADO
6 1 (0.55%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.55%) HTML
6 1 (0.55%) Kafka
6 1 (0.55%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.92%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.64%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.55%) Acoustics
7 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.55%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.55%) EMV
7 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.55%) Mobile Games
7 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.55%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.56%) Windows
2 9 (4.92%) Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Android
3 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (73.22%) Test Automation
2 98 (53.55%) Agile
2 98 (53.55%) Software Testing
3 62 (33.88%) Test Scripting
4 52 (28.42%) DevOps
5 49 (26.78%) BDD
6 47 (25.68%) Manual Testing
7 41 (22.40%) SDLC
7 41 (22.40%) TDD
7 41 (22.40%) Test Strategy
8 32 (17.49%) Scrum
9 29 (15.85%) User Acceptance Testing
10 28 (15.30%) CI/CD
10 28 (15.30%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (13.66%) Functional Testing
11 25 (13.66%) Regression Testing
11 25 (13.66%) Test Management
12 21 (11.48%) Test Planning
13 19 (10.38%) Non-Functional Testing
13 19 (10.38%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.13%) Java
2 31 (16.94%) SQL
3 28 (15.30%) C#
4 20 (10.93%) Python
5 19 (10.38%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.83%) C++
7 4 (2.19%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.19%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.64%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.09%) COBOL
9 2 (1.09%) HLASM
9 2 (1.09%) REXX
9 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 68 (37.16%) ISEB
2 49 (26.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 31 (16.94%) Degree
4 26 (14.21%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 10 (5.46%) SC Cleared
6 8 (4.37%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.19%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (44.26%) QA
2 10 (5.46%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.19%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.64%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.09%) IEC 61508
5 2 (1.09%) PMO
5 2 (1.09%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (3.28%) Docker
2 4 (2.19%) Firmware
3 3 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.28%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.55%) Ansible
2 1 (0.55%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.55%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.83%) Atlassian
3 6 (3.28%) HP
4 4 (2.19%) OpenText
4 4 (2.19%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.19%) Siebel
5 2 (1.09%) Google
5 2 (1.09%) IBM
5 2 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.55%) iManage
6 1 (0.55%) Intapp
6 1 (0.55%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle
6 1 (0.55%) SAP
6 1 (0.55%) Xamarin