Lead Test Engineer Jobs

Lead Test Engineer
UK

The median Lead Test Engineer salary in the UK is £45,996 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 887 926 1168
Rank change year-on-year +39 +242 -305
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 18 47 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.045% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.049% 0.036%
Number of salaries quoted 13 28 25
10th Percentile - £44,500 £43,273
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,634 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,996 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% -15.38% +11.59%
75th Percentile £56,184 £66,313 £81,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,382 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £55,750 £51,750
% change year-on-year -28.25% +7.73% +3.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,813 95,219 148,250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,625 59,878 85,347
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Test Engineer in the UK

Lead Test Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Test Engineer.

Salary trend for Lead Test Engineer in the UK

Lead Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Test Engineer over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Test Engineer in the UK

Lead Test Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Test Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +80 14 £40,000 -27.27% 8
UK excluding London -14 14 £40,000 -28.25% 8
Work from Home +61 6 £48,500 -11.82% 6
South East +21 6 £40,000 -23.81% 1
West Midlands +25 5 - -
Midlands -2 5 - -
North of England +33 1 £54,169 -1.51% 1
East of England +13 1 £85,000 +36.00% 5
South West -21 1 £48,500 -14.16% 2
North West - 1 £54,169 -

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Lead Test Engineer 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 featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
1 6 (33.33%) Electronics
1 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) Automotive
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 3 (16.67%) Selenium
4 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
5 2 (11.11%) Postman
5 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
5 2 (11.11%) InfluxDB
5 2 (11.11%) Line Management
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Coaching
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
5 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
5 2 (11.11%) SDLC
5 2 (11.11%) Grafana
5 2 (11.11%) Load Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Security Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
5 2 (11.11%) Ethical Hacking
5 2 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (11.11%) JMeter

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.56%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) InfluxDB
1 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) JMeter
2 2 (11.11%) JUnit
2 2 (11.11%) Postman
2 2 (11.11%) SoapUI
2 2 (11.11%) TestNG
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
3 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 6 (33.33%) Electronics
2 4 (22.22%) Automotive
3 2 (11.11%) Welsh Language
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth
1 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 2 (11.11%) SOAP
1 2 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.56%) PMI
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) CentOS
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 3 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Coaching
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Ethical Hacking
4 2 (11.11%) Line Management
4 2 (11.11%) Load Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 2 (11.11%) OWASP
4 2 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (11.11%) SDLC
4 2 (11.11%) Security Testing
4 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.56%) BDD
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (11.11%) GIAC
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) ISEB
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk
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