QA Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £49,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 671 699 791
Rank change year-on-year +28 +92 -161
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 87 51 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.086% 0.092%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.097% 0.096%
Number of salaries quoted 63 47 61
10th Percentile £29,550 £45,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -10.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £61,875 £68,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £51,250 £66,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -22.64% -5.36% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in the UK excluding London

QA Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA Leader in the UK excluding London

QA Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Leader in the UK excluding London

QA Leader
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Midlands -12 19 £42,500 -19.81% 8
South East +18 13 £47,500 -40.63% 1
East Midlands -10 13 £36,500 -27.00% 5
South West -15 12 £57,500 +4.55% 4
North of England +32 10 £52,500 -19.23% 2
Scotland -55 10 £60,000 - 1
Northern Ireland - 9 - - 1
Yorkshire +81 8 £52,500 -12.50% 1
East of England - 8 £28,000 - 5
West Midlands 0 6 £49,000 -10.91% 3
Wales - 6 £70,000 - 1
North West 0 2 £56,250 +32.35%
QA Leader
UK

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 87 (100.00%) QA
2 54 (62.07%) Test Automation
3 31 (35.63%) Agile
4 30 (34.48%) Azure
5 26 (29.89%) Selenium
6 24 (27.59%) Software Testing
7 23 (26.44%) DevOps
8 19 (21.84%) ISTQB
9 18 (20.69%) ISEB
10 17 (19.54%) Pharmaceutical
10 17 (19.54%) Microsoft Office
10 17 (19.54%) Manufacturing
10 17 (19.54%) Validation
10 17 (19.54%) AWS
10 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (18.39%) Cypress.io
12 15 (17.24%) Test Strategy
13 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
13 14 (16.09%) Playwright
14 13 (14.94%) SDLC
14 13 (14.94%) SaaS
14 13 (14.94%) Degree
14 13 (14.94%) Manual Testing
14 13 (14.94%) C#
15 12 (13.79%) ETL
15 12 (13.79%) JMeter
15 12 (13.79%) TypeScript
15 12 (13.79%) QA Automation
15 12 (13.79%) Line Management
16 11 (12.64%) Retail

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (19.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (34.48%) Azure
2 17 (19.54%) AWS
3 13 (14.94%) SaaS
4 7 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (8.05%) BrowserStack
5 6 (6.90%) BlazeMeter
5 6 (6.90%) GCP
6 3 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (29.89%) Selenium
2 16 (18.39%) Cypress.io
3 12 (13.79%) JMeter
4 7 (8.05%) SoapUI
4 7 (8.05%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (6.90%) Appium
5 6 (6.90%) Git
5 6 (6.90%) Postman
5 6 (6.90%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.30%) JIRA
7 2 (2.30%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.15%) eggPlant
8 1 (1.15%) TestCafe
8 1 (1.15%) TestRail
General
1 17 (19.54%) Manufacturing
1 17 (19.54%) Pharmaceutical
2 11 (12.64%) Retail
3 9 (10.34%) Legal
4 8 (9.20%) Finance
4 8 (9.20%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.90%) Social Skills
7 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.09%) Playwright
2 7 (8.05%) REST
3 3 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.15%) .NET
4 1 (1.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) FMCG
2 7 (8.05%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (8.05%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.90%) Low-Code
3 6 (6.90%) NHS
3 6 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Replication
6 1 (1.15%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (62.07%) Test Automation
2 31 (35.63%) Agile
3 24 (27.59%) Software Testing
4 23 (26.44%) DevOps
5 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (19.54%) Validation
6 15 (17.24%) Test Strategy
7 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
8 13 (14.94%) Manual Testing
8 13 (14.94%) SDLC
9 12 (13.79%) ETL
9 12 (13.79%) Line Management
9 12 (13.79%) QA Automation
10 10 (11.49%) E-Commerce
11 9 (10.34%) Change Management
11 9 (10.34%) Commercialisation
11 9 (10.34%) Internal Audit
11 9 (10.34%) Regression Testing
11 9 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (9.20%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.94%) C#
2 12 (13.79%) TypeScript
3 5 (5.75%) SQL
4 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.15%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (21.84%) ISTQB
2 18 (20.69%) ISEB
3 13 (14.94%) Degree
4 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (100.00%) QA
2 6 (6.90%) GMP
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Docker
1 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) Google
2 9 (10.34%) SAP
3 6 (6.90%) MuleSoft
3 6 (6.90%) OutSystems
4 5 (5.75%) Databricks
5 3 (3.45%) Micro Focus
5 3 (3.45%) Oracle
5 3 (3.45%) Salesforce