Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ISEB 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 798 618 672
Rank change year-on-year -180 +54 -69
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 109 352 717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.39% 1.10% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 93 254 372
10th Percentile £35,750 £40,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,927 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £70,600 £49,475
Median % change year-on-year -30.59% +42.70% -1.05%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,250 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £70,600 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.72% +56.89% -10.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,927 31,974 45,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.61% 33.78% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,249 14,434 19,201
10th Percentile £28,668 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,503 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISEB.

Salary trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISEB over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the UK 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
England -145 104 £50,000 -29.18% 28
UK excluding London -181 83 £47,500 -32.72% 24
Work from Home -106 44 £48,750 -30.95% 10
London +74 25 £55,000 - 7
South East -27 20 £47,500 -9.52% 4
Midlands -41 20 £54,700 -0.55% 4
North of England -42 16 £54,700 -22.52% 6
South West -37 15 £48,750 -30.95% 4
East Midlands -24 10 £36,500 -27.00% 4
North West -25 10 £62,500 -11.47% 4
West Midlands -36 10 £63,550 +1.68% 1
East of England -9 8 £40,000 -43.34% 2
Yorkshire +15 6 £52,500 -25.64% 2
Scotland -71 4 £35,000 -50.42% 1

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 4 (3.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (16.51%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.92%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.35%) Azure
2 9 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.34%) SaaS
4 5 (4.59%) AWS
5 4 (3.67%) Datadog
5 4 (3.67%) GitHub
5 4 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.75%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.92%) Asana
8 1 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.42%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.92%) ATM
2 1 (0.92%) Firewall
2 1 (0.92%) Multicast
2 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.75%) Power BI
3 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (22.94%) JIRA
2 23 (21.10%) Selenium
3 11 (10.09%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (5.50%) Git
5 5 (4.59%) Postman
5 5 (4.59%) Visual Studio
5 5 (4.59%) WebDriver
5 5 (4.59%) Zephyr
6 4 (3.67%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.75%) eggPlant
7 3 (2.75%) NUnit
8 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.83%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.83%) JMeter
8 2 (1.83%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.83%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.92%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.92%) LoadRunner
General
1 37 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (13.76%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.09%) Legal
6 10 (9.17%) Law
7 9 (8.26%) Finance
8 8 (7.34%) Marketing
9 6 (5.50%) Games
10 5 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.75%) Banking
12 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.92%) Back Office
12 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.92%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.92%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (30.28%) Analyst
2 21 (19.27%) Lead
3 18 (16.51%) QA Leader
4 17 (15.60%) Test Analyst
4 17 (15.60%) Test Leader
5 11 (10.09%) Business Analyst
6 10 (9.17%) Tester
7 9 (8.26%) Test Engineer
8 8 (7.34%) Head of PMO
9 6 (5.50%) Data Protection Specialist
10 5 (4.59%) Programme Manager
10 5 (4.59%) Programme Test Manager
10 5 (4.59%) Test Manager
10 5 (4.59%) Test Programme Manager
11 4 (3.67%) QA Analyst
11 4 (3.67%) Software Tester
11 4 (3.67%) Test Automation Engineer
12 3 (2.75%) Implementation Manager
12 3 (2.75%) QA Engineer
12 3 (2.75%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.17%) REST
2 5 (4.59%) Playwright
2 5 (4.59%) XML
3 4 (3.67%) CSS
3 4 (3.67%) DOM
3 4 (3.67%) HTML
4 3 (2.75%) RESTful
5 1 (0.92%) .NET
5 1 (0.92%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.92%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.92%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (9.17%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.42%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.83%) Bitcoin
5 2 (1.83%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.92%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.92%) Derivative
6 1 (0.92%) Equities
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.42%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.92%) CentOS
3 1 (0.92%) Unix
3 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (51.38%) Agile
2 44 (40.37%) Test Automation
3 30 (27.52%) Software Testing
4 29 (26.61%) Test Strategy
5 26 (23.85%) Regression Testing
6 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (21.10%) DevOps
7 23 (21.10%) Manual Testing
8 22 (20.18%) PRINCE2
8 22 (20.18%) User Acceptance Testing
9 20 (18.35%) SDLC
10 18 (16.51%) Test Scripting
11 17 (15.60%) ITIL
12 16 (14.68%) Exploratory Testing
12 16 (14.68%) Line Management
13 14 (12.84%) Process Improvement
14 13 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (11.93%) Data Protection
14 13 (11.93%) Information Security
14 13 (11.93%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.27%) SQL
2 9 (8.26%) Python
3 6 (5.50%) Java
3 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.59%) C#
5 2 (1.83%) C++
6 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 52 (47.71%) ISTQB
2 24 (22.02%) Degree
3 13 (11.93%) ISEB Practitioner
4 11 (10.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.50%) APMP
6 6 (5.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 5 (4.59%) CAPM
7 5 (4.59%) PMI Certification
7 5 (4.59%) PMP
8 3 (2.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.92%) CBAP
9 1 (0.92%) CISA
9 1 (0.92%) CISM
9 1 (0.92%) CISSP
9 1 (0.92%) CRISC
9 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.92%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (33.94%) QA
2 14 (12.84%) GDPR
3 9 (8.26%) PMO
4 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.83%) ISO 14001
5 2 (1.83%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.83%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.92%) COBIT
6 1 (0.92%) NIST
6 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.59%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 18 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.59%) HP
3 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle
3 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.92%) SAP
3 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow