ISTQB Foundation Certification Contracts with Work from Home Options

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) formerly ISEB Foundation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for ISTQB Foundation Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 438 550
Rank change year-on-year +112 +112 -98
Contract jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification 15 19 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.080% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.39% 0.32% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 64
10th Percentile £300 £366 £352
25th Percentile £375 £381 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £438 £455
Median % change year-on-year +25.14% -3.74% +18.67%
75th Percentile £608 £501 £500
90th Percentile £610 £516 £646
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £430
% change year-on-year +10.00% +16.28% +12.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

ISTQB Foundation Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,871 5,983 8,825
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.24% 25.06% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,499 4,053 6,276
10th Percentile £331 £380 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +3.58% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 246 232
10th Percentile £15.36 £19.00 £19.04
25th Percentile £23.94 £42.50 £39.19
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £84.28 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

ISTQB Foundation Certification trend for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ISTQB Foundation Certification.

ISTQB Foundation Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing ISTQB Foundation Certification over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

ISTQB Foundation Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ISTQB Foundation Certification
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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) TestRail
2 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
2 4 (26.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) FitNesse
3 2 (13.33%) JMeter
3 2 (13.33%) LoadRunner
3 2 (13.33%) Selenium
3 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) Subversion
4 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
4 1 (6.67%) TestComplete
4 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
4 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (13.33%) Back Office
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Front Office
2 1 (6.67%) Automotive
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Analyst
1 10 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) QA Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer in Test
4 1 (6.67%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Functional Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) Playwright
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.67%) Reference Data
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Test Automation
2 12 (80.00%) Agile
3 9 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (60.00%) Test Management
4 5 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (26.67%) TDD
6 3 (20.00%) BDD
6 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
7 2 (13.33%) API Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Dependency Management
7 2 (13.33%) DevOps
7 2 (13.33%) Functional Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Load Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Security Testing
7 2 (13.33%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) C++
3 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
3 1 (6.67%) VBA
3 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) ISTQB
2 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (26.67%) Degree
4 4 (26.67%) ISEB
5 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) HNC
6 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle