Test Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £51,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 703 638 771
Rank change year-on-year -65 +133 -183
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 68 124 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.097% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.23% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 48 72 65
10th Percentile £35,750 £44,675 £39,500
25th Percentile £38,938 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,000 -
UK median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,715 54,769 68,069
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.24% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 47,210 31,112 43,042
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in the UK excluding London

Test Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Leader in the UK excluding London

Test Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Leader in the UK excluding London

Test 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 Test Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
South East +2 15 £47,500 -8.65% 8
Midlands -5 14 £36,500 -33.64% 5
North of England +17 12 £60,000 +9.09% 1
South West -22 12 £85,000 +25.93% 1
East Midlands -14 10 £36,500 -51.33% 1
North West +1 7 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Wales +18 6 £52,500 -12.50% 1
East of England +17 6 - - 2
Yorkshire +84 5 £77,500 +40.91%
West Midlands -3 4 £44,500 -19.09% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Scotland -66 1 £35,776 -48.89% 2
Test Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 47 (69.12%) Test Automation
2 30 (44.12%) QA
3 29 (42.65%) Test Strategy
4 25 (36.76%) Selenium
5 19 (27.94%) DevOps
6 18 (26.47%) Agile
6 18 (26.47%) ISTQB
7 17 (25.00%) Software Testing
8 15 (22.06%) JavaScript
8 15 (22.06%) ISEB
8 15 (22.06%) Azure
8 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
9 14 (20.59%) Manual Testing
10 11 (16.18%) SaaS
10 11 (16.18%) Line Management
10 11 (16.18%) REST
10 11 (16.18%) JIRA
10 11 (16.18%) CI/CD
11 10 (14.71%) SDLC
11 10 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (14.71%) SQL
11 10 (14.71%) E-Commerce
11 10 (14.71%) Security Cleared
11 10 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (13.24%) Performance Testing
12 9 (13.24%) Git
12 9 (13.24%) AWS
12 9 (13.24%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (11.76%) Cypress.io

Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) Azure
2 11 (16.18%) SaaS
3 9 (13.24%) AWS
4 3 (4.41%) BrowserStack
4 3 (4.41%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (2.94%) GCP
6 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.47%) Boomi
6 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.47%) GitHub
6 1 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.29%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.47%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (36.76%) Selenium
2 11 (16.18%) JIRA
3 9 (13.24%) Git
4 8 (11.76%) Cypress.io
5 7 (10.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
6 6 (8.82%) JMeter
6 6 (8.82%) Postman
7 4 (5.88%) SpecFlow
7 4 (5.88%) Zephyr
8 3 (4.41%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.41%) JUnit
8 3 (4.41%) LoadRunner
8 3 (4.41%) TestNG
9 2 (2.94%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.94%) TestRail
10 1 (1.47%) Appium
10 1 (1.47%) GitLab
10 1 (1.47%) Phabricator
General
1 15 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.41%) Finance
4 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.18%) REST
2 6 (8.82%) Swagger
3 2 (2.94%) JSON
3 2 (2.94%) Playwright
3 2 (2.94%) SOAP
3 2 (2.94%) XML
4 1 (1.47%) Django
4 1 (1.47%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.47%) Flask
4 1 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.47%) Cybercrime
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) Test Automation
2 29 (42.65%) Test Strategy
3 19 (27.94%) DevOps
4 18 (26.47%) Agile
5 17 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 14 (20.59%) Manual Testing
7 11 (16.18%) CI/CD
7 11 (16.18%) Line Management
8 10 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (14.71%) E-Commerce
8 10 (14.71%) SDLC
8 10 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (13.24%) Performance Testing
10 8 (11.76%) Web Testing
11 7 (10.29%) Mentoring
11 7 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (10.29%) Software Engineering
12 6 (8.82%) API Testing
12 6 (8.82%) Functional Testing
12 6 (8.82%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.06%) JavaScript
2 10 (14.71%) SQL
3 7 (10.29%) C#
4 4 (5.88%) Java
4 4 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) ISTQB
2 15 (22.06%) ISEB
3 10 (14.71%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.82%) Degree
5 4 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.94%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.47%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (1.47%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (44.12%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.47%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Docker
1 1 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Ansible
1 1 (1.47%) Grafana
1 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.94%) Thales
3 1 (1.47%) Infor
3 1 (1.47%) SAP