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 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 786 624 674
Rank change year-on-year -162 +50 -65
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 116 380 652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% 1.15% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 100 267 336
10th Percentile £34,904 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,169 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,600 £49,475
Median % change year-on-year -29.18% +42.70% -1.05%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £62,500
90th Percentile £68,000 £72,850 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £70,600 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.72% +56.89% -5.26%

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 27,444 33,124 42,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.69% 32.69% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 17,288 14,907 18,785
10th Percentile £28,374 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%

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 9 May 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -94 111 £50,000 -28.88% 13
UK excluding London -167 86 £47,500 -32.72% 12
Work from Home -79 51 £55,000 -22.10% 5
London +67 29 £55,000 - 7
South East -20 22 £47,500 -5.00% 1
Midlands -47 19 £54,700 -0.55% 2
South West -32 17 £48,750 -30.95% 1
North of England -31 16 £54,700 -22.52% 3
North West -5 10 £62,500 -11.47%
East Midlands -24 10 £36,500 -27.00% 1
West Midlands -17 9 £70,000 +12.00% 1
East of England +9 8 £40,000 -43.34% 1
Yorkshire +30 6 £52,500 -25.64% 3
Scotland -71 4 £35,000 -50.42% 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 4 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.72%) CMS
3 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (16.38%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (6.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.86%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 24 (20.69%) Azure
2 13 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (6.90%) SaaS
4 6 (5.17%) AWS
5 4 (3.45%) Datadog
5 4 (3.45%) GitHub
5 4 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.59%) BrowserStack
6 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.86%) Asana
8 1 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.03%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.86%) ATM
2 1 (0.86%) Firewall
2 1 (0.86%) Multicast
2 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.59%) Power BI
3 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (21.55%) JIRA
2 23 (19.83%) Selenium
3 11 (9.48%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (6.03%) Git
5 5 (4.31%) eggPlant
5 5 (4.31%) Visual Studio
5 5 (4.31%) WebDriver
5 5 (4.31%) Zephyr
6 4 (3.45%) Postman
7 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.59%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.72%) JMeter
8 2 (1.72%) NUnit
8 2 (1.72%) SoapUI
8 2 (1.72%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.86%) JIRA Agile
9 1 (0.86%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.86%) Subversion
General
1 42 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 16 (13.79%) Law
4 15 (12.93%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (9.48%) Legal
7 9 (7.76%) Marketing
8 7 (6.03%) Finance
9 5 (4.31%) Games
9 5 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.72%) Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.86%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (35.34%) Analyst
2 20 (17.24%) Lead
3 18 (15.52%) Business Analyst
3 18 (15.52%) QA Leader
3 18 (15.52%) Test Analyst
4 16 (13.79%) Test Leader
5 12 (10.34%) Tester
6 9 (7.76%) Test Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Head of PMO
8 6 (5.17%) Business IT Analyst
8 6 (5.17%) Data Protection Specialist
8 6 (5.17%) IT Analyst
8 6 (5.17%) IT Business Analyst
9 5 (4.31%) Programme Manager
9 5 (4.31%) Programme Test Manager
9 5 (4.31%) Software Tester
9 5 (4.31%) Test Manager
9 5 (4.31%) Test Programme Manager
10 4 (3.45%) Automation Tester
10 4 (3.45%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.34%) REST
2 4 (3.45%) CSS
2 4 (3.45%) DOM
2 4 (3.45%) HTML
2 4 (3.45%) Playwright
2 4 (3.45%) XML
3 3 (2.59%) RESTful
4 1 (0.86%) .NET
4 1 (0.86%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.86%) JSON
4 1 (0.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.72%) Bitcoin
5 2 (1.72%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.86%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Windows
2 1 (0.86%) CentOS
2 1 (0.86%) Linux
2 1 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (50.86%) Agile
2 44 (37.93%) Test Automation
3 31 (26.72%) Software Testing
4 29 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 28 (24.14%) DevOps
6 25 (21.55%) Regression Testing
7 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.97%) PRINCE2
8 22 (18.97%) User Acceptance Testing
9 21 (18.10%) Manual Testing
10 18 (15.52%) SDLC
10 18 (15.52%) Test Scripting
11 16 (13.79%) Business Analysis
11 16 (13.79%) ITIL
11 16 (13.79%) Line Management
12 15 (12.93%) Exploratory Testing
12 15 (12.93%) Scrum
13 14 (12.07%) CI/CD
14 13 (11.21%) Data Protection
14 13 (11.21%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.38%) SQL
2 9 (7.76%) Python
3 7 (6.03%) Java
4 6 (5.17%) C#
5 5 (4.31%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 53 (45.69%) ISTQB
2 24 (20.69%) Degree
3 16 (13.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 13 (11.21%) ISEB Practitioner
5 8 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (5.17%) APMP
6 6 (5.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 5 (4.31%) CAPM
7 5 (4.31%) PMI Certification
7 5 (4.31%) PMP
8 3 (2.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.72%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.72%) Security Cleared
10 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.86%) CBAP
10 1 (0.86%) CISA
10 1 (0.86%) CISM
10 1 (0.86%) CISSP
10 1 (0.86%) CRISC
10 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (31.90%) QA
2 14 (12.07%) GDPR
3 9 (7.76%) PMO
4 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.72%) ISO 14001
6 2 (1.72%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.86%) COBIT
7 1 (0.86%) NIST
7 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.31%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.31%) HP
3 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
3 1 (0.86%) Oracle
3 1 (0.86%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.86%) SAP
3 1 (0.86%) ServiceNow