QA Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £62,252 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 673 704
Rank change year-on-year +113 +31 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 16 87 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.041% 0.12% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.13% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 14 63 48
10th Percentile £53,910 £35,750 £45,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,750 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,252 £49,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.04% -12.50% -10.40%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,875 £67,813
90th Percentile £88,625 £70,000 £80,375
UK median annual salary £64,000 £52,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +21.90% -22.22% -3.57%

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 35,491 67,312 53,678
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.61% 94.80% 89.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,637 47,638 30,603
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in the UK excluding London

QA Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA Leader in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for QA Leader in the UK excluding London

QA Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Leader in the UK excluding London

QA Leader
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 QA Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Midlands +58 6 £60,000 +33.33% 2
East Midlands +27 5 £60,000 +64.38% 2
North of England +44 4 £75,252 +43.34% 2
South East +88 2 £64,000 +34.74% 9
East of England +34 2 £40,000 +42.86% 1
North West +12 2 £90,000 +60.00% 2
South West +109 1 £72,500 +26.09% 1
Yorkshire +65 1 £59,800 +13.90%
West Midlands +42 1 £55,000 +12.24%
Wales +34 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £60,504 -
QA Leader
UK

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, QA 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) QA
2 14 (87.50%) Test Automation
3 12 (75.00%) Agile
4 10 (62.50%) Selenium
4 10 (62.50%) Mentoring
5 9 (56.25%) API Testing
5 9 (56.25%) Test Strategy
5 9 (56.25%) C#
6 7 (43.75%) Postman
6 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
6 7 (43.75%) DevOps
6 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
7 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (31.25%) SQL
7 5 (31.25%) Client/Server
8 4 (25.00%) Java
8 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
8 4 (25.00%) Python
8 4 (25.00%) CRM
8 4 (25.00%) JMeter
8 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
8 4 (25.00%) SaaS
8 4 (25.00%) Performance Testing
8 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
9 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
9 3 (18.75%) REST Assured
9 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (18.75%) Git

QA Leader 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 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Selenium
2 7 (43.75%) Postman
3 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (25.00%) JMeter
4 3 (18.75%) Git
4 3 (18.75%) REST Assured
5 2 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
5 2 (12.50%) JUnit
5 2 (12.50%) LoadRunner
5 2 (12.50%) NeoLoad
5 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
6 1 (6.25%) Appium
6 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.25%) GitLab
6 1 (6.25%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (6.25%) Maven
6 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 1 (6.25%) TestNG
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Billing
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Games
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (12.50%) NumPy
2 2 (12.50%) Pandas
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Cordova
3 1 (6.25%) Ionic Framework
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Playwright
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Client/Server
2 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 2 (12.50%) Online Games
3 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 12 (75.00%) Agile
3 10 (62.50%) Mentoring
4 9 (56.25%) API Testing
4 9 (56.25%) Test Strategy
5 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 7 (43.75%) DevOps
6 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 4 (25.00%) CRM
7 4 (25.00%) Performance Testing
8 3 (18.75%) BDD
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
9 2 (12.50%) Coaching
9 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
9 2 (12.50%) QA Automation
9 2 (12.50%) SDLC
9 2 (12.50%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) Groovy
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) CyberSource