Test Leader Job Trends in County Antrim

Test Lead
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

As of 31 October 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Test Lead salary in County Antrim.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in County Antrim 0.36% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
Northern Ireland median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in County Antrim. 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 County Antrim with a recognized job title 260 394 305
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 97.52% 97.44%
Number of salaries quoted 129 210 236
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,112 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,794 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,625 £76,250
Northern Ireland median annual salary £52,500 £58,800 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +17.60% +4.17%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Leader' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Test Leader job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Test Leader
Salary Trend in County Antrim

Salary distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in County Antrim.

Salary distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in County Antrim

Test Leader
Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 31 October 2025. 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
Belfast - 1 - -
Test Leader
Northern Ireland

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, Test Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the County Antrim region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform