ISTQB Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 530 551
Rank change year-on-year +143 +21 -28
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 40 66 121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.71% 0.70% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 37 57 85
10th Percentile £31,900 £32,000 £35,218
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.71% -10.53% +5.46%
75th Percentile £61,250 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £57,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £51,250 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +20.59% -10.53% +5.56%

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 5,636 9,470 10,703
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.31% 28.03% 25.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,063 5,902 6,536
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -8.47% +7.27%

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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ISTQB.

ISTQB salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ISTQB over the 6 months to 8 May 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 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.50%) Moodle
1 1 (2.50%) Totara
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.50%) Magento
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.50%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.50%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.00%) Power BI
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) Big Data
2 1 (2.50%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.50%) MySQL
2 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (52.50%) Selenium
2 10 (25.00%) JIRA
3 6 (15.00%) Appium
4 5 (12.50%) Postman
5 4 (10.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (7.50%) Git
6 3 (7.50%) JMeter
6 3 (7.50%) JUnit
6 3 (7.50%) Locust
7 2 (5.00%) Gatling
7 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (5.00%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (5.00%) LoadRunner
7 2 (5.00%) SoapUI
7 2 (5.00%) TestRail
8 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
8 1 (2.50%) TestNG
8 1 (2.50%) WebDriver
8 1 (2.50%) YouTrack
8 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (22.50%) Legal
2 8 (20.00%) Law
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Cantonese Language
4 4 (10.00%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Mandarin Language
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) QA Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Analyst
3 9 (22.50%) Senior
3 9 (22.50%) Test Analyst
4 8 (20.00%) Tester
5 6 (15.00%) Senior QA Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Software Tester
7 4 (10.00%) QA Test Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) QA Tester
7 4 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Junior
9 2 (5.00%) Junior Software Tester
9 2 (5.00%) Junior Tester
9 2 (5.00%) Lead
9 2 (5.00%) QA Analyst
9 2 (5.00%) QA Test Analyst
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Software QA Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Software QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) ADO
1 2 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.50%) CSS
2 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
2 1 (2.50%) pytest
2 1 (2.50%) RESTful
2 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
1 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.50%) Blog
2 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.50%) EPoS
2 1 (2.50%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.50%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 27 (67.50%) Software Testing
3 26 (65.00%) Agile
4 20 (50.00%) Manual Testing
5 16 (40.00%) Test Scripting
6 11 (27.50%) Test Management
7 10 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (22.50%) Defect Tracking
8 9 (22.50%) Security Testing
9 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (20.00%) Regression Testing
9 8 (20.00%) Test Planning
10 7 (17.50%) API Testing
10 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
10 7 (17.50%) DevOps
10 7 (17.50%) Process Improvement
10 7 (17.50%) Scrum
11 6 (15.00%) Code Quality
11 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (15.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) JavaScript
2 12 (30.00%) SQL
3 10 (25.00%) Python
4 7 (17.50%) Java
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) C#
7 1 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 6 (15.00%) ISEB
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) CSQA
4 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (80.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Cognos
2 1 (2.50%) Concur
2 1 (2.50%) Databricks
2 1 (2.50%) Google
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle
2 1 (2.50%) Reuters
2 1 (2.50%) SAP
2 1 (2.50%) Splunk