Test Leader Jobs in Surrey

Test Lead
South East > Surrey

The median Test Lead salary in Surrey is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 - 143
Rank change year-on-year - - +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 1 0 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 0.085% - 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% - 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 - £54,000
90th Percentile - - £56,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +36.84% -8.65% -16.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 962 2,401 2,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.87% 91.68% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 539 1,536 1,271
10th Percentile £30,700 £27,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,713 £50,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -14.89% +6.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,313 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in Surrey

Test Leader
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in Surrey.

Salary trend for Test Leader in Surrey

Test Leader
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 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
Staines - 1 £57,500 - 1
Test Leader
South East

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Test 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 Surrey region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA