Test Leader Jobs in London

Test Lead
England > London

The median Test Lead salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 553 784
Rank change year-on-year +59 +231 -270
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 16 83 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.068% 0.23% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.25% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 11 67 47
10th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £90,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +38.46% -3.70%
75th Percentile £108,750 £98,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,250 £95,000
England median annual salary £53,750 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.87% +10.42% -4.00%

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 22,224 33,687 64,063
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.05% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,725 24,703 34,899
10th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £41,500
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 £92,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,833 £60,775 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.42% +1.29% +9.09%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Leader in London

Test 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 Test Leader within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +43 5 £75,500 -19.68% 1
East London - 2 £80,000 - 1
Test Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
2 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 6 (37.50%) QA
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 5 (31.25%) Defect Management
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Azure
4 5 (31.25%) Finance
5 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Banking
5 4 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) OpenAI
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
6 3 (18.75%) NeoLoad
6 3 (18.75%) Test Management
6 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
6 3 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (18.75%) SQL
6 3 (18.75%) LoadRunner
6 3 (18.75%) ETL
7 2 (12.50%) Quality Management
7 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 2 (12.50%) Project Management
7 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
7 2 (12.50%) .NET
7 2 (12.50%) Python
7 2 (12.50%) Law

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) LoadRunner
1 3 (18.75%) NeoLoad
2 2 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) NUnit
3 1 (6.25%) Postman
3 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (12.50%) Law
5 2 (12.50%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.25%) BBC
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
2 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Defect Management
4 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) ETL
5 3 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Test Management
5 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
6 2 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (12.50%) DevOps
6 2 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
6 2 (12.50%) IT Strategy
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 2 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (12.50%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) ISEB
2 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) OpenAI
2 2 (12.50%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (12.50%) iManage
2 2 (12.50%) Intapp