QA Leader Job Trends in Nottingham

Quality Assurance Lead
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in Nottingham is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 54 43
Rank change year-on-year +2 -11 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 1 5 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 0.20% 0.96% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 1.02% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +11.11%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 472 492 313
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 94.43% 97.20%
Number of salaries quoted 337 223 269
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £75,250
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -9.09%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

QA Leader job vacancy trend in Nottingham

QA Leader
Salary Trend in Nottingham

Salary distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in Nottingham.

Salary distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in Nottingham

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham

For the 6 months to 14 January 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 Nottingham region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
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%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA