Test Leader Jobs in England

Test Lead
UK > England

The median Test Lead salary in England is £53,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 759 734 930
Rank change year-on-year -25 +196 -234
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 72 198 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.084% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52 131 123
10th Percentile £35,750 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,688 £50,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,313 £89,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,625 £98,000 £94,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +4.17%

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 81,041 82,556 127,446
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.46% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,522 52,365 74,626
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 £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Leader in England

Test 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 Test Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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 +42 14 £80,000 -8.57% 10
South East -14 14 £47,500 -8.65% 7
Midlands -32 14 £36,500 -33.64% 6
North of England +39 12 £60,000 +9.09%
South West -23 12 £85,000 +25.93% 3
East Midlands -18 10 £36,500 -51.33% 1
North West +6 7 £60,000 +9.09%
East of England +15 6 - - 2
Yorkshire +85 5 £77,500 +47.62%
West Midlands -7 4 £44,500 -19.09% 5
Test Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Test 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 Test Leader in the job title.

1 47 (65.28%) Test Automation
2 28 (38.89%) Test Strategy
2 28 (38.89%) QA
3 20 (27.78%) Selenium
3 20 (27.78%) Agile
4 19 (26.39%) DevOps
5 18 (25.00%) ISTQB
6 16 (22.22%) Azure
6 16 (22.22%) ISEB
7 15 (20.83%) Manual Testing
8 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
9 12 (16.67%) Software Testing
9 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (15.28%) JIRA
10 11 (15.28%) Performance Testing
10 11 (15.28%) SaaS
10 11 (15.28%) SDLC
11 10 (13.89%) Line Management
11 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (13.89%) CI/CD
11 10 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (13.89%) Migration
11 10 (13.89%) E-Commerce
12 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
12 9 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (11.11%) Finance
13 8 (11.11%) Cypress.io
13 8 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
13 8 (11.11%) Web Testing

Test 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 4 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.22%) Azure
2 11 (15.28%) SaaS
3 7 (9.72%) AWS
4 3 (4.17%) BrowserStack
4 3 (4.17%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (2.78%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.39%) Boomi
6 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.39%) GitHub
6 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.39%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (27.78%) Selenium
2 11 (15.28%) JIRA
3 8 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 7 (9.72%) Git
4 7 (9.72%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (8.33%) JMeter
5 6 (8.33%) LoadRunner
5 6 (8.33%) Postman
6 5 (6.94%) SpecFlow
7 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
7 4 (5.56%) Zephyr
8 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.17%) NeoLoad
9 2 (2.78%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.39%) Appium
10 1 (1.39%) GitLab
10 1 (1.39%) JUnit
10 1 (1.39%) NUnit
10 1 (1.39%) Phabricator
10 1 (1.39%) TestNG
General
1 13 (18.06%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Finance
4 5 (6.94%) Banking
5 4 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.78%) Law
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) REST
2 6 (8.33%) Swagger
3 3 (4.17%) XML
4 2 (2.78%) JSON
4 2 (2.78%) Playwright
4 2 (2.78%) SOAP
5 1 (1.39%) Django
5 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.39%) Flask
5 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.39%) BBC
4 1 (1.39%) Cybercrime
4 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (65.28%) Test Automation
2 28 (38.89%) Test Strategy
3 20 (27.78%) Agile
4 19 (26.39%) DevOps
5 15 (20.83%) Manual Testing
6 12 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (15.28%) Performance Testing
7 11 (15.28%) SDLC
8 10 (13.89%) CI/CD
8 10 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (13.89%) E-Commerce
8 10 (13.89%) Line Management
8 10 (13.89%) Migration
8 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (11.11%) Web Testing
10 7 (9.72%) Defect Management
10 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
10 7 (9.72%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 7 (9.72%) SQL
3 4 (5.56%) C#
3 4 (5.56%) Java
4 2 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 16 (22.22%) ISEB
3 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.39%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (1.39%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (38.89%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
1 1 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Ansible
1 1 (1.39%) Grafana
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.39%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.17%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.78%) iManage
3 2 (2.78%) Intapp
4 1 (1.39%) Infor
4 1 (1.39%) SAP