QA Leader Job Trends in Telford

Quality Assurance Lead
Shropshire > Telford

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in Telford is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Telford 1.04% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.07% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median annual salary £55,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 281 59 148
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.23% 98.33% 89.16%
Number of salaries quoted 202 47 111
10th Percentile £26,000 £35,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +32.53% -30.83%
75th Percentile £61,875 £70,000 £58,125
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Shropshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -32.77%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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 Telford.

QA Leader job vacancy trend in Telford

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 26 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 Telford region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Siteimprove
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) Burp Suite
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Gatling
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (33.33%) TestRail
3 1 (33.33%) Toad
3 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (33.33%) Blockchain
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Kali Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
1 1 (33.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
1 1 (33.33%) Veracode