Test Leader Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Test Lead
UK > Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -10.60% +18.43% +2.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 330 469 339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 97.91% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 153 241 262
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £29,324
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,800 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +17.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Test Leader job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Test Leader
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in Northern Ireland.

Salary distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in Northern Ireland

Test Leader
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim - 1 - -
Test Leader
UK

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland 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