QA Leader Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Lead
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in England is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 743 842 991
Rank change year-on-year +99 +149 -274
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 94 98 151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 73 89 127
10th Percentile £35,750 £47,496 £52,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £95,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £74,500 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £51,250 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -22.64% +1.92% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in England

QA Leader
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Leader in England

QA Leader
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for QA Leader in England

QA Leader
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London +113 33 £66,250 -29.33% 1
Midlands +9 19 £45,000 -15.09% 5
South East +24 13 £47,500 -40.63%
East Midlands -8 11 £36,500 -27.00% 3
South West -26 11 £57,500 +4.55% 4
North of England +52 10 £52,500 -19.23%
Yorkshire +96 8 £52,500 -4.55%
East of England +24 8 £28,000 -55.20% 1
West Midlands +15 8 £49,000 -10.91% 2
North West +19 2 £56,250 +32.35%
QA Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 England region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 94 (100.00%) QA
2 56 (59.57%) Test Automation
3 35 (37.23%) Agile
4 29 (30.85%) Selenium
5 22 (23.40%) Test Strategy
6 21 (22.34%) DevOps
7 20 (21.28%) Manual Testing
8 19 (20.21%) Azure
8 19 (20.21%) ISTQB
8 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (19.15%) ISEB
10 17 (18.09%) C#
11 16 (17.02%) AWS
11 16 (17.02%) SDLC
12 15 (15.96%) Validation
13 14 (14.89%) Manufacturing
14 13 (13.83%) Software Testing
14 13 (13.83%) Cypress.io
15 12 (12.77%) Line Management
15 12 (12.77%) SaaS
16 10 (10.64%) REST
16 10 (10.64%) Appium
16 10 (10.64%) GCP
16 10 (10.64%) Degree
16 10 (10.64%) SQL Server
16 10 (10.64%) E-Commerce
16 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
16 10 (10.64%) API Testing
16 10 (10.64%) QA Automation
16 10 (10.64%) CI/CD

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.21%) Azure
2 16 (17.02%) AWS
3 12 (12.77%) SaaS
4 10 (10.64%) GCP
5 7 (7.45%) BrowserStack
6 6 (6.38%) BlazeMeter
7 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.13%) GitHub
8 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (30.85%) Selenium
2 13 (13.83%) Cypress.io
3 10 (10.64%) Appium
4 9 (9.57%) Git
5 8 (8.51%) Cucumber
6 7 (7.45%) JIRA
6 7 (7.45%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (6.38%) JMeter
7 6 (6.38%) SpecFlow
8 4 (4.26%) CircleCI
9 3 (3.19%) TestRail
9 3 (3.19%) XCUITest
10 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
10 2 (2.13%) Postman
10 2 (2.13%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.06%) Calabash
11 1 (1.06%) eggPlant
11 1 (1.06%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.06%) WebDriver
11 1 (1.06%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (14.89%) Manufacturing
2 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (9.57%) Finance
3 8 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Pharmaceutical
3 8 (8.51%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Retail
5 3 (3.19%) Marketing
6 2 (2.13%) Police
6 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.06%) Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Front Office
7 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.64%) REST
2 7 (7.45%) Playwright
3 5 (5.32%) .NET
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (3.19%) RESTful
4 3 (3.19%) WPF
5 2 (2.13%) SOAP
6 1 (1.06%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.51%) FMCG
2 7 (7.45%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.38%) NHS
3 6 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.13%) Hackathon
4 2 (2.13%) Replication
5 1 (1.06%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.06%) Derivative
5 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.06%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.45%) Windows
2 3 (3.19%) Android
3 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (59.57%) Test Automation
2 35 (37.23%) Agile
3 22 (23.40%) Test Strategy
4 21 (22.34%) DevOps
5 20 (21.28%) Manual Testing
6 19 (20.21%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (17.02%) SDLC
8 15 (15.96%) Validation
9 13 (13.83%) Software Testing
10 12 (12.77%) Line Management
11 10 (10.64%) API Testing
11 10 (10.64%) CI/CD
11 10 (10.64%) E-Commerce
11 10 (10.64%) QA Automation
12 9 (9.57%) Mentoring
12 9 (9.57%) Performance Testing
13 8 (8.51%) Coaching
13 8 (8.51%) Scrum
13 8 (8.51%) Web Testing
14 7 (7.45%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.09%) C#
2 9 (9.57%) SQL
3 8 (8.51%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.26%) Java
4 4 (4.26%) Python
5 3 (3.19%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.13%) PL/1
6 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.06%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) ISTQB
2 18 (19.15%) ISEB
3 10 (10.64%) Degree
4 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.13%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (100.00%) QA
2 6 (6.38%) GMP
3 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Firmware
2 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.45%) Databricks
3 3 (3.19%) Micro Focus
3 3 (3.19%) Oracle
3 3 (3.19%) Salesforce