The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Team Leader role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Team Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Testing Team Lead
Rank 759 769 743
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Team Leader 105 131 127
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.097% 0.107% 0.104%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.102% 0.113% 0.110%
Number of salaries quoted 92 104 105
Average salary £40,250 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £33,500 £35,900
10% offered a salary of more than £52,750 £71,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-1.23% -3.57%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102708 116230 115193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 85414 99672 97379
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Test Team Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Test Team Leader within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Test Team Leader Jobs Demand Trend

Test Team Leader
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Test Team Leader within the UK.

Test Team Leader Salary Trend

Test Team Leader
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Team Leader over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

Test Team Leader Salary Histogram

Test Team Leader
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Team Leader within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +16 100 £40,250 -10.55%
South East +10 38 £44,000 -4.80%
West Midlands +3 18 £40,000 +60.00%
North West +6 17 £40,750 +13.19%
London +24 12 £55,000 -
Manchester +5 11 £40,750 +15.60%
Hampshire -1 10 £45,000 -5.26%
Yorkshire -11 10 £35,000 -13.04%
West Sussex - 9 £35,000 -
Surrey +18 8 £44,000 -9.27%
West Yorkshire -3 8 £35,000 -12.50%
Leeds -11 8 £35,000 -13.04%
Staffordshire - 7 £45,000 -
East Midlands +5 6 £40,000 -11.11%
Crawley - 6 £35,000 -
Oxfordshire -11 5 £45,000 +11.11%
Liverpool - 5 £42,000 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 5 £45,000 -
Merseyside - 5 £42,000 -
Northamptonshire +6 4 £40,000 -11.11%
Northampton +1 4 £40,000 -11.11%
Buckinghamshire -8 4 £40,000 +11.88%
Milton Keynes -17 4 £40,000 +11.88%
Basingstoke -18 4 £46,250 -2.63%
Fareham - 4 £45,000 -
Coventry - 4 £40,000 -
East of England +6 3 £45,000 +20.00%
Birmingham -10 3 £30,000 +20.00%
Redhill - 3 £55,000 -
Worcestershire +8 2 £32,268 +17.33%

Test Team Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Test Team Leader in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Test Team Leader in their job title.

1 85 (38.29%) QA
2 70 (31.53%) ISEB
3 53 (23.87%) Software Testing
4 50 (22.52%) HP Quality Center
5 48 (21.62%) Finance
6 46 (20.72%) ISTQB
6 46 (20.72%) Automated Testing
7 45 (20.27%) HP
8 42 (18.92%) Test Scripting
9 41 (18.47%) User Acceptance Testing
10 40 (18.02%) Selenium
11 37 (16.67%) SQL
12 32 (14.41%) Regression Testing
13 31 (13.96%) Agile Software Development
13 31 (13.96%) Manual Testing
14 26 (11.71%) Test Strategy
15 25 (11.26%) Security Cleared
16 24 (10.81%) Banking
17 23 (10.36%) SC Cleared
17 23 (10.36%) Performance Testing
17 23 (10.36%) C#
18 22 (9.910%) Java
18 22 (9.910%) E-Commerce
18 22 (9.910%) QuickTest Pro
19 21 (9.459%) TMap
20 18 (8.108%) Test Automation
21 17 (7.658%) Degree
21 17 (7.658%) SQL Server
22 16 (7.207%) .NET
22 16 (7.207%) Web Services

Test Team Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Test Team Leader in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Test Team Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (7.207%) .NET
1 16 (7.207%) Web Services
2 6 (2.703%) HTML
2 6 (2.703%) XML
3 4 (1.802%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.351%) J2EE
4 3 (1.351%) soapUI
5 2 (0.901%) HTML5
5 2 (0.901%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.901%) WCF
6 1 (0.450%) COM
6 1 (0.450%) SOAP
6 1 (0.450%) XML Schema
6 1 (0.450%) WAP
6 1 (0.450%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.450%) Ajax
6 1 (0.450%) jQuery
6 1 (0.450%) REST
Application Platforms
1 4 (1.802%) IIS
2 3 (1.351%) Documentum
3 2 (0.901%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.901%) Apache
3 2 (0.901%) CMS
4 1 (0.450%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.450%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.450%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 15 (6.757%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.802%) MS Project
3 3 (1.351%) Pro/ENGINEER
4 2 (0.901%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.450%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.351%) PeopleSoft HRMS
1 3 (1.351%) Oracle HRMS
1 3 (1.351%) SAP HR
1 3 (1.351%) Taleo
1 3 (1.351%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.450%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.450%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.450%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.153%) Internet
2 6 (2.703%) HTTP
3 2 (0.901%) 3G
3 2 (0.901%) FTP
3 2 (0.901%) Firewall
3 2 (0.901%) LAN
4 1 (0.450%) DNS
4 1 (0.450%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.450%) VPN
4 1 (0.450%) GPRS
4 1 (0.450%) WLAN
4 1 (0.450%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.658%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.351%) RDBMS
3 2 (0.901%) SQLPlus
3 2 (0.901%) TOAD
4 1 (0.450%) DB2
4 1 (0.450%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.450%) DataStage
4 1 (0.450%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.450%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 40 (18.02%) Selenium
2 22 (9.910%) QuickTest Pro
3 8 (3.604%) JIRA
4 7 (3.153%) ClearQuest
4 7 (3.153%) LoadRunner
5 6 (2.703%) WebDriver
5 6 (2.703%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (2.703%) FitNesse
6 5 (2.252%) TestDirector
6 5 (2.252%) WATIR
7 4 (1.802%) JMeter
7 4 (1.802%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.351%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.351%) GitHub
9 2 (0.901%) Cobertura
9 2 (0.901%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.901%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.901%) Git (software)
9 2 (0.901%) Firebug
9 2 (0.901%) Fiddler
General
1 48 (21.62%) Finance
2 24 (10.81%) Banking
3 13 (5.856%) Games
3 13 (5.856%) Telecoms
4 12 (5.405%) Pharmaceutical
5 10 (4.505%) Retail
6 7 (3.153%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.802%) Legal
8 3 (1.351%) Marketing
9 2 (0.901%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.450%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.450%) Electronics
10 1 (0.450%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.450%) Automotive
10 1 (0.450%) Law
10 1 (0.450%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.252%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (1.802%) Open Source
2 4 (1.802%) Equities
2 4 (1.802%) Physics
2 4 (1.802%) Mainframe
3 3 (1.351%) Computer Science
3 3 (1.351%) CESG
3 3 (1.351%) SWIFT
4 2 (0.901%) SaaS
4 2 (0.901%) Social Media
4 2 (0.901%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.450%) Handset
5 1 (0.450%) APACS
5 1 (0.450%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 1 (0.450%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.856%) Windows
2 7 (3.153%) UNIX
3 5 (2.252%) Linux
4 2 (0.901%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (23.87%) Software Testing
2 46 (20.72%) Automated Testing
3 42 (18.92%) Test Scripting
4 41 (18.47%) User Acceptance Testing
5 32 (14.41%) Regression Testing
6 31 (13.96%) Agile Software Development
6 31 (13.96%) Manual Testing
7 26 (11.71%) Test Strategy
8 23 (10.36%) Performance Testing
9 22 (9.910%) E-Commerce
10 21 (9.459%) TMap
11 18 (8.108%) Test Automation
12 16 (7.207%) Scrum
13 15 (6.757%) Web Testing
14 14 (6.306%) Test Management
14 14 (6.306%) Security Testing
14 14 (6.306%) TDD
15 13 (5.856%) Automation Testing
16 9 (4.054%) System Testing
17 8 (3.604%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.67%) SQL
2 23 (10.36%) C#
3 22 (9.910%) Java
4 8 (3.604%) C
5 7 (3.153%) VBScript
5 7 (3.153%) Python
6 6 (2.703%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.703%) C++
7 5 (2.252%) Perl
7 5 (2.252%) VB
8 3 (1.351%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.351%) Ruby
9 2 (0.901%) Groovy
9 2 (0.901%) Objective-C
9 2 (0.901%) PHP
10 1 (0.450%) RPG
10 1 (0.450%) VC++
Qualifications
1 70 (31.53%) ISEB
2 46 (20.72%) ISTQB
3 25 (11.26%) Security Cleared
4 23 (10.36%) SC Cleared
5 17 (7.658%) Degree
6 9 (4.054%) HND
7 5 (2.252%) HNC
8 2 (0.901%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (0.901%) CISSP
9 1 (0.450%) CISA
9 1 (0.450%) CEH
9 1 (0.450%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (38.29%) QA
2 1 (0.450%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.450%) NFS
Systems Management
1 50 (22.52%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.450%) Control-M
2 1 (0.450%) Nessus
2 1 (0.450%) CORE IMPACT
Vendors
1 45 (20.27%) HP
2 16 (7.207%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.505%) SAP
4 9 (4.054%) Oracle
4 9 (4.054%) Capita
5 4 (1.802%) BMC
5 4 (1.802%) Fidessa
5 4 (1.802%) Siebel
6 3 (1.351%) PeopleSoft
6 3 (1.351%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.351%) Mercator
6 3 (1.351%) i-GRasp
6 3 (1.351%) Ceridian
6 3 (1.351%) T-Plan
7 2 (0.901%) Zend
8 1 (0.450%) Sybase
8 1 (0.450%) Cognos
8 1 (0.450%) IBM
8 1 (0.450%) Agilent
West Midlands
We are currently working with a client in the West Midlands area to recruit a Test Team Lead- This opportunity would be great for a tester looking to...
GSA Techsource
Salary: GBP0 per annum + Benefits: Excellent package
Posted: 16 May 2013
Redhill, Surrey
A leading software provider requires an experienced Test Team Lead (Test Manager) to build a test team from scratch. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a dynamic,...
ISL
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + negotiable
Posted: 16 May 2013
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
eCommerce Payment, Windows and Mobile Systems... Skills and Exp: Strong team/project lead experienceStrong background in Software TestingExperience of leading large and diverse testing teams and projectsExperience of...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + DOE +Car +Bonus +Bens
Posted: 2 May 2013
Coventry, Ansty Park, West Midlands
Team Lead (Environment Build and Release) Coventry, Ansty Park, West Midlands £attractive As a Team Lead (Environment Build and Release), you will plan, manage and maintain test environments...
Sainsburys
Salary: £attractive
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Essential Skills (able to demonstrate or have knowledge of:)- Test team leading / test management (up to 5 people initially) - Test Driven Development within Agile Team - Automated Scripting (regression...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 11 May 2013
London
Max overall package = £60,000.Senior Test Analyst, Test Team Lead, Team Leading, Test Team Leader, Test Lead, Test Leader, ISEB, ISTQB, Automation, Automated, Functional Testing, Performance Testing,...
Cornucopia IT Resourcing Limited
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 1 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Any OOP such as .Net, C# or Java would be preferable. *Automated Testing with Selenium (MUST HAVE SELENIUM WEBDRIVER) *At least 7 years testing experience and test team...
People Source Consulting
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Apple/ Blackberry Certification)... Experience in testing native / web applications on iOS, Android, Blackberry & Windows platforms... Significant experience in using test automation tools (including Selenium Web driver, SoapUI Pro,...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £60,000 to £65,000 per annum Holidays+ Pension + Health + Benefi
Posted: 20 May 2013