QA Leader Jobs in the City of London

Quality Assurance Lead
Central London > City of London

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in the City of London is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 230 248
Rank change year-on-year +62 +18 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 6 1 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.18% 0.021% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.022% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 32
10th Percentile £41,250 - £57,000
25th Percentile £46,250 - £73,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.81%
75th Percentile £77,813 - £95,000
90th Percentile £83,125 - £97,250
Central London median annual salary £62,500 - £82,500
% change year-on-year - - -10.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,214 4,633 6,733
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.77% 96.54% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,576 3,905 5,638
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £53,136 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,220 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in the City of London

QA Leader
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Leader in the City of London.

Salary trend for QA Leader in the City of London

QA Leader
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Leader in the City of London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Leader in the City of London

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 City of London region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (83.33%) API Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Cypress.io
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (50.00%) Selenium
4 3 (50.00%) Java
4 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Postman
5 2 (33.33%) Playwright
5 2 (33.33%) Tech for Good
5 2 (33.33%) REST
5 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 2 (33.33%) SDET
5 2 (33.33%) C#
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (16.67%) Azure
6 1 (16.67%) AWS
6 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
6 1 (16.67%) SaaS
6 1 (16.67%) Agile
6 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 1 (16.67%) JIRA
6 1 (16.67%) SOAP
6 1 (16.67%) Firmware
6 1 (16.67%) Project Management
6 1 (16.67%) Bugzilla

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Postman
2 3 (50.00%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Appium
3 1 (16.67%) Bugzilla
3 1 (16.67%) Calabash
3 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) TestRail
3 1 (16.67%) Tricentis qTest
3 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (33.33%) Tech for Good
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Puppeteer
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) API Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) SDET
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) BDD
5 1 (16.67%) Black-Box Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Case Management
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Fintech
5 1 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware