QA Leader Jobs in London

Quality Assurance Lead
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in 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 464 606 781
Rank change year-on-year +142 +175 -262
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 32 50 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 20 45 70
10th Percentile £42,375 £61,000 £53,400
25th Percentile £44,375 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £100,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +29.03% +24.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £122,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £89,500 - £95,250
England median annual salary £49,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -27.41% - +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,145 34,385 62,833
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 95.08% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,692 25,122 34,959
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in London

QA Leader
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for QA Leader in London

QA Leader
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for QA Leader in London

QA Leader
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Central London +59 6 £62,500 -
QA Leader
England

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 London region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) QA
2 14 (43.75%) Test Automation
3 9 (28.13%) Manual Testing
3 9 (28.13%) Agile
4 8 (25.00%) AWS
4 8 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (21.88%) C#
6 6 (18.75%) Manufacturing
6 6 (18.75%) Data Analysis
6 6 (18.75%) Degree
6 6 (18.75%) Cucumber
6 6 (18.75%) Cypress.io
6 6 (18.75%) FMCG
6 6 (18.75%) API Testing
7 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
7 5 (15.63%) Azure
7 5 (15.63%) Penetration Testing
7 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
8 4 (12.50%) Java
8 4 (12.50%) Python
8 4 (12.50%) Scrum
8 4 (12.50%) .NET
8 4 (12.50%) JIRA
8 4 (12.50%) Retail
8 4 (12.50%) BDD
8 4 (12.50%) SpecFlow
8 4 (12.50%) GCP

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub
4 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Cucumber
1 6 (18.75%) Cypress.io
2 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 4 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 3 (9.38%) Appium
3 3 (9.38%) CircleCI
3 3 (9.38%) Git
3 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.38%) Postman
3 3 (9.38%) Selenium
4 2 (6.25%) XCUITest
5 1 (3.13%) Bugzilla
5 1 (3.13%) Calabash
5 1 (3.13%) SoapUI
5 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.13%) TestRail
5 1 (3.13%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Manufacturing
3 4 (12.50%) Retail
4 3 (9.38%) Marketing
5 2 (6.25%) Police
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Tech for Good
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Finance
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) .NET
1 4 (12.50%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) RESTful
2 3 (9.38%) WPF
3 2 (6.25%) Playwright
4 1 (3.13%) Puppeteer
4 1 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) FMCG
2 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Derivative
3 1 (3.13%) Hackathon
3 1 (3.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 2 (6.25%) Android
3 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Test Automation
2 9 (28.13%) Agile
2 9 (28.13%) Manual Testing
3 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.75%) API Testing
5 6 (18.75%) Data Analysis
6 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
6 5 (15.63%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (12.50%) BDD
7 4 (12.50%) Scrum
8 3 (9.38%) Chemistry
8 3 (9.38%) Coaching
8 3 (9.38%) IT Asset Management
8 3 (9.38%) Microservices
8 3 (9.38%) Performance Testing
8 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
8 3 (9.38%) Software Licensing
8 3 (9.38%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) C#
2 5 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.50%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) PL/1
4 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) SQL
4 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
1 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes