QA Leader Job Trends in Liverpool

Quality Assurance Lead
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in Liverpool is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 April 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Liverpool 0.16% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Merseyside median annual salary £80,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 608 215 799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 84.98% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 397 159 648
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,625 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,100 £75,750
Merseyside median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

QA Leader job vacancy trend in Liverpool

QA Leader
Salary Trend in Liverpool

Salary distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in Liverpool.

Salary distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in Liverpool

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 15 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool

For the 6 months to 1 April 2026, 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 Liverpool region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA