ISTQB Foundation Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) formerly ISEB Foundation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 398 398
Rank change year-on-year +39 0 -30
Contract jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification 32 38 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.17% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% 0.51% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 84
10th Percentile £350 £319 £313
25th Percentile £377 £413 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £408
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +28.60% +3.75%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £454
90th Percentile £610 £625 £500
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £430
% change year-on-year +10.00% +16.28% +12.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,617 7,379 8,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.80% 32.50% 26.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,413 4,875 5,316
10th Percentile £275 £300 £262
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 569 539
10th Percentile £13.69 £13.56 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.74 £56.02
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.24 £67.30
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ISTQB Foundation Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in the UK excluding London

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in the UK excluding London

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISTQB Foundation Certification in the UK excluding London

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ISTQB Foundation Certification in the UK excluding London

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB Foundation Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +22 23 £550 - 3
Scotland +33 3 £400 -5.88% 2
East of England - 3 £394 -
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
Midlands +11 1 £355 -11.25% 2
East Midlands +9 1 £355 +29.09% 1
ISTQB Foundation Certification
UK

ISTQB Foundation Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.13%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Azure
1 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (6.25%) IaaS
2 2 (6.25%) PaaS
2 2 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.13%) Internet
Development Applications
1 22 (68.75%) TestRail
2 9 (28.13%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 2 (6.25%) Git
3 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) Selenium
3 2 (6.25%) Subversion
3 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
3 2 (6.25%) WebDriver
4 1 (3.13%) TestComplete
4 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (12.50%) Automotive
1 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Marketing
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (71.88%) Analyst
2 22 (68.75%) Test Analyst
3 18 (56.25%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Systems Test Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Test Leader
5 3 (9.38%) Unix Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Unix Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Test Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Automation Test Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) QA Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) SAP Manager
7 1 (3.13%) SAP Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) HTML
2 1 (3.13%) RESTful
2 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Client/Server
1 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.13%) PMI
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
1 4 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (84.38%) Test Automation
2 26 (81.25%) Agile
3 22 (68.75%) Test Management
4 18 (56.25%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (34.38%) Requirements Analysis
5 11 (34.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 6 (18.75%) TDD
7 5 (15.63%) Defect Management
7 5 (15.63%) Functional Testing
7 5 (15.63%) Scrum
7 5 (15.63%) SDLC
7 5 (15.63%) Test Strategy
8 4 (12.50%) DevOps
8 4 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Project Planning
8 4 (12.50%) Waterfall
9 3 (9.38%) Coaching
9 3 (9.38%) Software Testing
9 3 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
3 3 (9.38%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) C++
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) VBA
4 2 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (93.75%) ISTQB
2 18 (56.25%) DV Cleared
2 18 (56.25%) Security Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) Degree
4 5 (15.63%) ISEB
5 4 (12.50%) HNC
5 4 (12.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) SAP
1 2 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe
2 1 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (3.13%) ScienceLogic