Hybrid/Remote ISTQB Job Trends

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 437 428
Rank change year-on-year +72 -9 +100
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 64 70 84
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.12% 1.10% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 57 43 75
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £40,553
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £58,500 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,500 £78,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £46,572 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.73% -6.86% +5.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

ISTQB 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,691 6,369 6,650
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.04% 27.29% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,327 3,096 4,998
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,404 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% -3.45% +5.45%

ISTQB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ISTQB trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ISTQB
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing ISTQB.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing ISTQB

ISTQB
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ISTQB over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

ISTQB salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.56%) Magento
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) Azure
2 12 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (12.50%) AWS
4 5 (7.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (7.81%) GCP
5 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.13%) GitHub
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.56%) SaaS
8 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Metadata
2 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) Big Data
4 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.56%) MySQL
4 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 38 (59.38%) Selenium
2 33 (51.56%) JIRA
3 20 (31.25%) Postman
4 16 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 13 (20.31%) SoapUI
5 13 (20.31%) WebDriver
6 6 (9.38%) Cypress.io
6 6 (9.38%) Git
7 5 (7.81%) Locust
8 4 (6.25%) Appium
8 4 (6.25%) Gatling
8 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
9 3 (4.69%) CircleCI
9 3 (4.69%) Katalon Studio
9 3 (4.69%) LoadRunner
9 3 (4.69%) TestRail
9 3 (4.69%) Zephyr
10 2 (3.13%) JMeter
10 2 (3.13%) JUnit
11 1 (1.56%) NUnit
General
1 25 (39.06%) Finance
2 21 (32.81%) Legal
3 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
4 15 (23.44%) Law
5 13 (20.31%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (9.38%) Banking
7 4 (6.25%) Cantonese Language
7 4 (6.25%) Mandarin Language
8 3 (4.69%) Military
8 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (37.50%) Analyst
2 23 (35.94%) Test Analyst
3 21 (32.81%) Senior
4 15 (23.44%) QA Engineer
5 11 (17.19%) Test Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) Senior QA Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
7 8 (12.50%) Tester
8 5 (7.81%) Lead
9 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) QA Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) QA Test Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Quality Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) Test Leader
10 3 (4.69%) IT Analyst
10 3 (4.69%) QA Test Analyst
10 3 (4.69%) Senior Tester
10 3 (4.69%) Software Tester
10 3 (4.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.44%) HTML
2 13 (20.31%) .NET
2 13 (20.31%) SOAP
3 3 (4.69%) Playwright
4 2 (3.13%) CSS
4 2 (3.13%) JSON
4 2 (3.13%) Middleware
4 2 (3.13%) XML
5 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.56%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.56%) pytest
5 1 (1.56%) RESTful
5 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.25%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.69%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.56%) EPoS
5 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (87.50%) Agile
2 43 (67.19%) Software Testing
3 35 (54.69%) Test Automation
4 30 (46.88%) Test Scripting
5 29 (45.31%) Test Management
6 23 (35.94%) User Acceptance Testing
7 22 (34.38%) Scrum
8 20 (31.25%) API Testing
9 18 (28.13%) DevOps
9 18 (28.13%) Manual Testing
9 18 (28.13%) Non-Functional Testing
10 17 (26.56%) Mentoring
11 16 (25.00%) CI/CD
12 13 (20.31%) Cross-Browser Testing
13 12 (18.75%) Project Management
14 11 (17.19%) Performance Testing
14 11 (17.19%) Regression Testing
14 11 (17.19%) Test Strategy
15 10 (15.63%) Defect Tracking
15 10 (15.63%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 29 (45.31%) SQL
2 23 (35.94%) Java
3 16 (25.00%) C#
4 9 (14.06%) Python
5 8 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 14 (21.88%) Degree
3 9 (14.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 8 (12.50%) ISEB
5 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
5 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (46.88%) QA
2 4 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.69%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Firmware
2 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) iManage
3 2 (3.13%) Aderant
3 2 (3.13%) IBM
3 2 (3.13%) Intapp
3 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.56%) Cognos
4 1 (1.56%) Concur
4 1 (1.56%) Databricks
4 1 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle
4 1 (1.56%) Reuters
4 1 (1.56%) SAP
4 1 (1.56%) Splunk