QA Leader Jobs in Central London

Quality Assurance Lead
London > Central London

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in Central London is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 239 271
Rank change year-on-year +49 +32 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 5 3 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.13% 0.057% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.060% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 31
10th Percentile £49,250 - £56,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £77,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £80,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% -3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £83,250 - £97,500
London median annual salary £66,250 £93,750 £77,500
% change year-on-year -29.33% +20.97% +10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 3,598 5,042 7,714
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.21% 96.06% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,818 4,204 6,465
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +2.07% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings that featured QA Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in Central London

QA Leader
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Leader in Central London.

Salary trend for QA Leader in Central London

QA Leader
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Leader in Central London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Leader in Central London

QA Leader
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
City of London +56 5 £62,500 -21.88%
QA Leader
London

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, QA Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Central London region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (80.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (80.00%) API Testing
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Postman
4 2 (40.00%) Playwright
4 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 2 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (40.00%) SDET
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (20.00%) Calabash
5 1 (20.00%) Black-Box Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
5 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (20.00%) Appium
5 1 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (20.00%) REST
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (20.00%) Fintech
5 1 (20.00%) Case Management
5 1 (20.00%) TestRail
5 1 (20.00%) CircleCI

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) Appium
3 1 (20.00%) Bugzilla
3 1 (20.00%) Calabash
3 1 (20.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (20.00%) TestRail
3 1 (20.00%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) Puppeteer
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) API Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) SDET
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Black-Box Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Case Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Fintech
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware