Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 545 535
Rank change year-on-year +21 -10 -70
Contract jobs citing ISEB 67 162 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.28% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 1.02% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 120 245
10th Percentile £253 £260 £360
25th Percentile £400 £397 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +5.56% +11.46%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £525
90th Percentile £600 £619 £595
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £427 £445
% change year-on-year +0.82% -4.16% +17.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.63
25th Percentile - £67.50 £25.52
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £29.62
Median % change year-on-year - +153.21% -42.20%
75th Percentile - £82.50 £32.78
90th Percentile - - £34.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £24.24
% change year-on-year - +209.41% -52.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ISEB is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,071 15,806 18,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.36% 27.25% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,080 10,554 12,360
10th Percentile £307 £330 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 819 757
10th Percentile £13.83 £15.25 £13.74
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%
75th Percentile £61.58 £68.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.35 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -18.12% +56.79% -7.67%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISEB.

Daily rate trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISEB over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISEB.

Hourly rate trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +25 53 £460 -1.61% 13
UK excluding London +19 40 £430 +0.82% 12
Work from Home +83 28 £480 +2.67% 5
London +44 21 £538 +2.38% 7
South East +8 17 £430 -1.71% 1
Midlands +29 11 £400 -6.21% 2
Scotland +45 7 £469 +23.36% 2
East Midlands +27 7 £525 +41.89% 1
West Midlands +13 4 £400 -13.79% 1
North of England +18 2 £425 +3.03% 3
South West +13 2 £617 +45.06% 1
North West +7 2 £425 +6.25%
Wales +19 1 £160 - 2

ISEB
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 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (13.43%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.94%) Azure
2 7 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.96%) SaaS
4 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.99%) IaaS
4 2 (2.99%) PaaS
5 1 (1.49%) AWS
5 1 (1.49%) Boomi
5 1 (1.49%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.49%) dbt
5 1 (1.49%) Miro
5 1 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (19.40%) JIRA
2 8 (11.94%) Selenium
3 6 (8.96%) JMeter
4 4 (5.97%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.97%) Git
5 3 (4.48%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.48%) SoapUI
5 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (4.48%) Subversion
5 3 (4.48%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.99%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.99%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.99%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.49%) Appium
7 1 (1.49%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.49%) Postman
7 1 (1.49%) TestComplete
7 1 (1.49%) TestNG
General
1 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Finance
3 12 (17.91%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.94%) Legal
5 7 (10.45%) Law
6 6 (8.96%) Marketing
7 5 (7.46%) Banking
8 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.99%) Prime Brokerage
10 2 (2.99%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
10 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (37.31%) Analyst
2 11 (16.42%) Business Analyst
2 11 (16.42%) Test Manager
3 10 (14.93%) Test Analyst
4 9 (13.43%) Lead
5 7 (10.45%) Project Manager
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
5 7 (10.45%) Senior Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) Test Leader
6 5 (7.46%) Construction Project Manager
6 5 (7.46%) QA Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Functional Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Functional Test Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Performance Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Performance Test Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior Test Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Test Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) QA Leader
9 2 (2.99%) Service Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) XML
2 2 (2.99%) .NET
2 2 (2.99%) SOAP
2 2 (2.99%) Web Services
3 1 (1.49%) JSON
3 1 (1.49%) Middleware
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (5.97%) Equities
2 4 (5.97%) NHS
3 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.48%) PACS
4 2 (2.99%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.99%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.49%) DTCC
5 1 (1.49%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Linux
1 3 (4.48%) Unix
1 3 (4.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Test Automation
2 20 (29.85%) Agile
3 17 (25.37%) User Acceptance Testing
4 16 (23.88%) DevOps
4 16 (23.88%) Project Management
5 14 (20.90%) Integration Testing
5 14 (20.90%) Software Testing
6 13 (19.40%) PRINCE2
6 13 (19.40%) Test Management
7 12 (17.91%) Impact Assessments
7 12 (17.91%) Test Strategy
8 10 (14.93%) Performance Testing
8 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (13.43%) System Integration Testing
10 8 (11.94%) Defect Management
10 8 (11.94%) Project Delivery
10 8 (11.94%) Test Scripting
11 7 (10.45%) Data Protection
11 7 (10.45%) Non-Functional Testing
11 7 (10.45%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) SQL
2 8 (11.94%) Java
3 5 (7.46%) C#
4 3 (4.48%) C++
4 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.48%) Python
5 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.99%) VBA
5 2 (2.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (44.78%) ISTQB
2 24 (35.82%) Security Cleared
3 15 (22.39%) SC Cleared
4 13 (19.40%) Degree
5 8 (11.94%) APMP
6 7 (10.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (10.45%) DV Cleared
6 7 (10.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (10.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (4.48%) CBAP
7 3 (4.48%) RIBA
8 2 (2.99%) IIBA
8 2 (2.99%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (1.49%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) QA
2 7 (10.45%) GDPR
3 4 (5.97%) HL7
4 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.99%) COBIT
4 2 (2.99%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.99%) PMO
5 1 (1.49%) MiFID
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) HP ALM
1 2 (2.99%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) NEC
4 2 (2.99%) HP
4 2 (2.99%) SAP
5 1 (1.49%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.49%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.49%) Dell
5 1 (1.49%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.49%) Workday