QA Leader Job Trends in Leicester

Quality Assurance Lead
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in Leicester is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.62% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £61,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £51,445 - £36,500

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 306 193 247
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 91.90% 98.02%
Number of salaries quoted 224 118 205
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £79,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £49,990
% change year-on-year - -9.98% +11.09%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

QA Leader job vacancy trend in Leicester

QA Leader
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in Leicester.

Salary distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in Leicester

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, QA 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 Leicester region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) TestNG
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality