Lead Test Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Test Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Test Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 599 679 646
Rank change year-on-year +80 -33 +191
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 11 10 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.016% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.017% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 9
10th Percentile £59,010 - £45,050
25th Percentile £61,725 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £40,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +68.75% -30.43% -
75th Percentile £74,375 £43,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £59,025 £67,700
UK median annual salary £67,500 £40,000 £52,991
% change year-on-year +68.75% -24.52% -18.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 39,030 58,876 41,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.68% 95.00% 89.86%
Number of salaries quoted 21,265 38,203 27,266
10th Percentile £25,500 £28,119 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,099 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,225 £80,627
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Lead Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Lead Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Test Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Test Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Test Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Test Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Test Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Test Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
North of England +13 5 £67,400 - 2
South West +72 4 - -
North West -19 4 £75,000 - 2
South East +24 1 £67,500 +68.75% 1
Scotland - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £59,800 -
Lead Test Engineer
UK

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 5 August 2025, Lead Test Engineer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 9 (81.82%) Software Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) System Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Java
4 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
4 5 (45.45%) Linux
4 5 (45.45%) Python
4 5 (45.45%) BDD
5 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
5 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (36.36%) TDD
5 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (36.36%) Docker
6 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
6 3 (27.27%) AWS
7 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Degree
7 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
7 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Modbus
7 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
7 2 (18.18%) Network Design
7 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (18.18%) Agile
7 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
7 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
7 2 (18.18%) SCADA

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) BrowserStack
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Postman
1 2 (18.18%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) Appium
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
2 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Cordova
1 1 (9.09%) Ionic Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Biopharmaceutical
1 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
1 2 (18.18%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (18.18%) SCADA
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 9 (81.82%) Software Testing
3 6 (54.55%) System Testing
4 5 (45.45%) BDD
5 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (36.36%) Machine Learning
5 4 (36.36%) TDD
6 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
7 2 (18.18%) Agile
7 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
7 2 (18.18%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Network Design
7 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Project Management
7 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
7 2 (18.18%) Security Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) DV Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
3 2 (18.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO 9001
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) CyberSource