ISTQB Jobs in England

International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ISTQB qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 702 638 561
Rank change year-on-year -64 -77 -2
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 163 269 804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.32% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.66% 0.95% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 116 193 398
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -1.10%
75th Percentile £53,750 £56,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,500 £66,400
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,836 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.15% +6.30% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,881 28,320 37,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.35% 33.66% 26.59%
Number of salaries quoted 15,751 12,947 16,894
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -

ISTQB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ISTQB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB in England

ISTQB
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISTQB in England.

Salary trend for ISTQB in England

ISTQB
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISTQB in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for ISTQB in England

ISTQB
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -2 50 £41,750 - 10
London +75 30 £52,500 +5.00% 9
South West -27 27 £37,500 -28.91% 5
Midlands -26 24 £49,329 -1.34% 10
North of England -16 23 £42,500 -5.56% 6
Yorkshire +31 15 £52,500 +23.53% 2
East Midlands -21 12 £36,500 -8.75% 2
West Midlands -24 12 £56,650 +9.87% 9
East of England -10 9 £40,000 -23.81% 1
North West -20 8 £37,500 -23.08% 4
ISTQB
UK

ISTQB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (2.45%) Confluence
2 3 (1.84%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (7.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.86%) SaaS
2 31 (19.02%) Azure
3 18 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.52%) AWS
5 5 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.45%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (2.45%) Cloud Functions
6 4 (2.45%) Datadog
6 4 (2.45%) dbt
6 4 (2.45%) GCP
6 4 (2.45%) GitHub
6 4 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (2.45%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.61%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.84%) Bluetooth
1 3 (1.84%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (1.84%) ZigBee
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) Multicast
2 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (2.45%) Tableau
3 3 (1.84%) Big Data
3 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.61%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (33.74%) Selenium
2 46 (28.22%) JIRA
3 17 (10.43%) TestRail
4 12 (7.36%) JMeter
4 12 (7.36%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (4.91%) Postman
6 7 (4.29%) SpecFlow
7 6 (3.68%) LoadRunner
7 6 (3.68%) WebDriver
7 6 (3.68%) Zephyr
8 5 (3.07%) HP UFT
8 5 (3.07%) MSTest
9 4 (2.45%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.84%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.84%) eggPlant
10 3 (1.84%) Git
10 3 (1.84%) NUnit
10 3 (1.84%) SoapUI
10 3 (1.84%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.23%) Bugzilla
General
1 52 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (13.50%) Organisational Skills
4 15 (9.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.91%) Finance
7 7 (4.29%) Retail
8 6 (3.68%) Games
9 5 (3.07%) Aerospace
9 5 (3.07%) Banking
10 3 (1.84%) Electronics
10 3 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.23%) Automotive
12 1 (0.61%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.61%) Back Office
12 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (32.52%) Analyst
2 43 (26.38%) Test Analyst
3 36 (22.09%) Test Engineer
4 25 (15.34%) Lead
5 21 (12.88%) QA Analyst
6 20 (12.27%) Test Leader
7 19 (11.66%) QA Leader
7 19 (11.66%) Senior
8 17 (10.43%) Tester
9 15 (9.20%) Test Manager
10 13 (7.98%) Software Test Engineer
11 12 (7.36%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (6.75%) QA Automation Analyst
12 11 (6.75%) QA Test Analyst
13 10 (6.13%) Software Tester
14 9 (5.52%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
14 9 (5.52%) QA Engineer
14 9 (5.52%) Test Automation Engineer
15 8 (4.91%) Senior QA Analyst
16 6 (3.68%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.13%) REST
2 7 (4.29%) .NET
2 7 (4.29%) Playwright
3 5 (3.07%) XML
4 4 (2.45%) Gherkin
5 3 (1.84%) RESTful
6 1 (0.61%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.61%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.61%) ADO
6 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.61%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.61%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.61%) JSON
6 1 (0.61%) Laravel
6 1 (0.61%) Middleware
6 1 (0.61%) Node.js
6 1 (0.61%) Puppeteer
6 1 (0.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.75%) Greenfield Project
1 11 (6.75%) Product Ownership
1 11 (6.75%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.45%) Low-Code
2 4 (2.45%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.84%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (1.84%) IoT
4 2 (1.23%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.61%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.61%) Derivative
5 1 (0.61%) Equities
5 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.61%) PMI
5 1 (0.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.50%) Windows
2 16 (9.82%) Linux
3 2 (1.23%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.61%) CentOS
4 1 (0.61%) Unix
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (58.90%) Test Automation
2 94 (57.67%) Software Testing
3 83 (50.92%) Agile
4 57 (34.97%) Test Strategy
5 51 (31.29%) Test Scripting
6 49 (30.06%) Regression Testing
7 48 (29.45%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (26.99%) Manual Testing
9 39 (23.93%) Test Management
10 34 (20.86%) DevOps
11 33 (20.25%) Defect Management
12 28 (17.18%) User Acceptance Testing
13 27 (16.56%) Computer Science
14 25 (15.34%) CI/CD
14 25 (15.34%) SDLC
15 23 (14.11%) E-Commerce
15 23 (14.11%) Software Engineering
16 22 (13.50%) Test Planning
16 22 (13.50%) Web Testing
17 20 (12.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.79%) Python
2 25 (15.34%) SQL
3 22 (13.50%) C#
4 10 (6.13%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.91%) Java
6 5 (3.07%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.45%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.84%) C++
8 3 (1.84%) Scala
9 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (29.45%) ISEB
2 41 (25.15%) Degree
3 26 (15.95%) Security Cleared
4 24 (14.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 15 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (7.98%) DV Cleared
7 11 (6.75%) SC Cleared
8 6 (3.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 6 (3.68%) PMI Certification
9 5 (3.07%) CAPM
9 5 (3.07%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (3.07%) PMP
10 4 (2.45%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.45%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.23%) HND
12 1 (0.61%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (52.76%) QA
2 5 (3.07%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.23%) SLA
4 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.07%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.23%) Ansible
2 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.75%) Google
3 8 (4.91%) Oracle
4 5 (3.07%) HP
5 4 (2.45%) Peregrine
6 3 (1.84%) Databricks
7 2 (1.23%) SAP
8 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.61%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.61%) Splunk