QA Leader Job Trends in South Wales

Quality Assurance Lead
Wales > South Wales

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in South Wales is £72,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 1 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.10% - 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 6
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 - £70,000
Wales median annual salary £72,000 - £70,000

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 914 318 1,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 94.08% 89.91%
Number of salaries quoted 593 209 802
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £47,264
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +10.02% +3.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,144 £70,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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 South Wales.

QA Leader job vacancy trend in South Wales

QA Leader
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in South Wales.

Salary distribution trend for QA Leader job vacancies in South Wales

QA Leader
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 6 April 2026. 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
Cardiff - 1 £72,000 - 1
QA Leader
Wales

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 6 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 South Wales region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Line Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes