ISTQB Advanced Certification Job Trends in West Wales

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Advanced Level (CTAL) formerly ISEB Advanced
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Wales with a requirement for ISTQB Advanced Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB Advanced Certification 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 0.61% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.96% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £41,750 - -
25th Percentile £42,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - -
75th Percentile £47,500 - -
90th Percentile £48,250 - -
Wales median annual salary £45,000 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Wales

ISTQB Advanced Certification 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 102 17 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 31.10% 27.42% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 31 15 21
10th Percentile £35,663 - £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £21,250 £42,139
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,709 £37,733 £51,997
Median % change year-on-year +37.04% -27.43% +29.99%
75th Percentile £75,601 £51,804 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,921 £59,857 £65,000
Wales median annual salary £52,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.57% +27.78% +5.88%

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ISTQB Advanced Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Wales.

ISTQB Advanced Certification job vacancy trend in West Wales

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB Advanced Certification within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Swansea - 2 £45,000 -
ISTQB Advanced Certification
Wales

ISTQB Advanced Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Newman
2 1 (50.00%) Pa11y
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Development Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Jest
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG