ISTQB Jobs with Work from Home Options

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 548 533
Rank change year-on-year +23 -15 -57
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 70 116 360
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.29% 0.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.73% 1.12% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 59 84 207
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,065 £32,265
25th Percentile £35,750 £37,313 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £45,041
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.46% +5.98%
75th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £57,000 £62,500 £66,250
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,586 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.69% +5.75% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,544 10,349 16,116
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.21% 25.59% 22.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,899 6,308 8,659
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,715 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £93,000
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

ISTQB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ISTQB trend for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing ISTQB over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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 3 (4.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (35.71%) Azure
2 15 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (14.29%) SaaS
4 5 (7.14%) AWS
5 4 (5.71%) Cloud Composer
5 4 (5.71%) Cloud Functions
5 4 (5.71%) dbt
5 4 (5.71%) GCP
5 4 (5.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (5.71%) Snowflake
6 3 (4.29%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.43%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) Firewall
1 1 (1.43%) Multicast
1 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.71%) InfluxDB
3 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (5.71%) Tableau
4 3 (4.29%) Big Data
5 1 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (20.00%) Selenium
2 11 (15.71%) JIRA
3 9 (12.86%) Postman
3 9 (12.86%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (11.43%) JMeter
4 8 (11.43%) TestRail
5 5 (7.14%) eggPlant
6 4 (5.71%) SoapUI
6 4 (5.71%) WebDriver
7 3 (4.29%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.86%) HP UFT
8 2 (2.86%) MSTest
8 2 (2.86%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
9 1 (1.43%) Protractor
9 1 (1.43%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.43%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Finance
4 4 (5.71%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.71%) Retail
4 4 (5.71%) Welsh Language
5 3 (4.29%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Legal
6 2 (2.86%) Police
7 1 (1.43%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Analyst
2 16 (22.86%) Test Analyst
3 15 (21.43%) Test Engineer
4 14 (20.00%) Senior
5 13 (18.57%) Lead
6 12 (17.14%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (15.71%) Tester
8 9 (12.86%) QA Leader
9 8 (11.43%) Test Leader
10 7 (10.00%) QA Analyst
10 7 (10.00%) QA Automation Analyst
10 7 (10.00%) Senior QA Analyst
10 7 (10.00%) Software Tester
11 6 (8.57%) Graduate
12 5 (7.14%) Automation Analyst
12 5 (7.14%) SaaS Analyst
12 5 (7.14%) Senior Automation Analyst
12 5 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
13 4 (5.71%) Automation Tester
13 4 (5.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) REST
2 6 (8.57%) XML
3 5 (7.14%) .NET
4 4 (5.71%) OAuth
4 4 (5.71%) OAuth2
4 4 (5.71%) SOAP
5 3 (4.29%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.86%) Playwright
7 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.43%) Laravel
7 1 (1.43%) Node.js
7 1 (1.43%) Puppeteer
7 1 (1.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.29%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.00%) Windows
2 4 (5.71%) Unix
3 2 (2.86%) Linux
4 1 (1.43%) CentOS
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (67.14%) Test Automation
2 44 (62.86%) Agile
3 43 (61.43%) Software Testing
4 28 (40.00%) DevOps
5 26 (37.14%) Manual Testing
6 21 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (28.57%) SDLC
8 19 (27.14%) Regression Testing
9 16 (22.86%) Defect Management
9 16 (22.86%) Test Scripting
10 13 (18.57%) Performance Testing
11 12 (17.14%) CI/CD
11 12 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (15.71%) Non-Functional Testing
12 11 (15.71%) Test Planning
13 10 (14.29%) Scrum
14 9 (12.86%) Computer Science
14 9 (12.86%) User Acceptance Testing
15 8 (11.43%) Test Strategy
16 7 (10.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (24.29%) SQL
2 15 (21.43%) C#
3 7 (10.00%) Java
3 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.00%) Python
4 4 (5.71%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.29%) C++
5 3 (4.29%) Scala
6 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) ISEB
2 11 (15.71%) Degree
3 8 (11.43%) Security Cleared
4 7 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
6 4 (5.71%) GIAC
7 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (42.86%) QA
2 5 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.86%) SLA
4 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.71%) Google
2 11 (15.71%) Oracle
3 4 (5.71%) Peregrine
4 3 (4.29%) Databricks
5 2 (2.86%) SAP