Test Leader Jobs in the City of London

Test Lead
Central London > City of London

The median Test Lead salary in the City of London is £75,500 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 175 217 266
Rank change year-on-year +42 +49 -44
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 5 19 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.15% 0.40% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.42% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 11
10th Percentile £70,750 £70,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £71,875 £72,500 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £94,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% +44.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,250 £102,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £103,900 £115,000 £87,500
Central London median annual salary £75,500 £94,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -19.68% +44.62% -3.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 City of London with a recognized job title 3,224 4,573 6,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.90% 96.46% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,574 3,849 5,624
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,625 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in the City of London

Test Leader
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Test Leader in the City of London

Test Leader
Salary Histogram in the City of London

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

Salary histogram for Test Leader in the City of London

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

1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (20.00%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Line Management
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI