QA Leader Jobs in the East Midlands

Quality Assurance Lead
England > East Midlands

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in the East Midlands is £49,960 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 189 172
Rank change year-on-year +33 -17 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 2 12 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.074% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile £40,732 £25,175 £46,500
25th Percentile £43,526 £35,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,960 £36,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.88% -27.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £57,117 £38,875 -
90th Percentile £60,347 £44,875 -
England median annual salary £62,752 £47,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +32.11% -26.92% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,563 4,598 2,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 94.65% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,010 3,265 1,280
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,000 £64,356
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured QA Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in the East Midlands

QA Leader
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Leader in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for QA Leader in the East Midlands

QA Leader
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Leader in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Leader in the East Midlands

QA Leader
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Leicestershire +31 1 £39,919 +9.37% 2
Nottinghamshire - 1 £60,000 -
QA Leader
England

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 East Midlands region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Billing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Social Housing
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Housing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA