QA Leader Jobs in London

Quality Assurance Lead
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in London is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 473 574
Rank change year-on-year +98 +101 +223
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 18 30 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 12 19 38
10th Percentile - £42,500 £61,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -25.33% +20.97%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £122,500
90th Percentile £94,250 £90,250 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £49,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +32.65% -24.62% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,585 22,238 32,603
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.14% 94.13% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,454 16,672 24,036
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in London

QA Leader
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Leader in London.

Salary trend for QA Leader in London

QA Leader
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Leader in London over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Leader in London

QA Leader
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the London region over the 6 months to 11 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
Central London +30 2 £65,000 -8.77% 1
QA Leader
England

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 11 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 London region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) QA
2 11 (61.11%) Test Automation
3 10 (55.56%) Manual Testing
4 8 (44.44%) Agile
5 7 (38.89%) Selenium
5 7 (38.89%) Software Testing
5 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
5 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (38.89%) Code Quality
6 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (33.33%) MSTest
6 6 (33.33%) SQL
6 6 (33.33%) Python
6 6 (33.33%) C#
6 6 (33.33%) Degree
7 5 (27.78%) JIRA
7 5 (27.78%) Test Scripting
7 5 (27.78%) ISTQB
7 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
8 4 (22.22%) Playwright
8 4 (22.22%) Postman
8 4 (22.22%) SDLC
8 4 (22.22%) Defect Tracking
8 4 (22.22%) DevOps
8 4 (22.22%) Test Planning
8 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
8 4 (22.22%) Confluence
8 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
8 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy

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

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (16.67%) GitHub
1 3 (16.67%) Power Automate
1 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 3 (16.67%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Selenium
2 6 (33.33%) MSTest
3 5 (27.78%) JIRA
4 4 (22.22%) Postman
4 4 (22.22%) SpecFlow
5 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
5 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 3 (16.67%) JMeter
5 3 (16.67%) Mocha
5 3 (16.67%) NUnit
5 3 (16.67%) SoapUI
6 1 (5.56%) Appium
6 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (5.56%) JUnit
6 1 (5.56%) TestComplete
6 1 (5.56%) TestNG
6 1 (5.56%) TestRail
General
1 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Games
5 1 (5.56%) iGaming
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Playwright
2 3 (16.67%) Jest
2 3 (16.67%) Swagger
2 3 (16.67%) Web Services
2 3 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Test Automation
2 10 (55.56%) Manual Testing
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
4 7 (38.89%) Code Quality
4 7 (38.89%) Software Testing
5 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (27.78%) Test Scripting
7 4 (22.22%) Defect Tracking
7 4 (22.22%) DevOps
7 4 (22.22%) Mentoring
7 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
7 4 (22.22%) SDLC
7 4 (22.22%) Test Planning
7 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
8 3 (16.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 3 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (16.67%) Defect Management
8 3 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (16.67%) KYC
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
2 6 (33.33%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) ISTQB
3 3 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (16.67%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (11.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance