QA Leader Jobs

Quality Assurance Lead
UK

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 797 853
Rank change year-on-year +125 +56 +170
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 36 117 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 25 82 91
10th Percentile £41,500 £35,750 £47,481
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £68,438 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,625 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,900 £49,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +22.24% -12.50% -8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 49,581 97,268 88,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.79% 91.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25,819 69,389 56,377
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,875 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in the UK

QA Leader
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for QA Leader in the UK

QA Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Leader over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for QA Leader in the UK

QA Leader
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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
England +114 28 £62,752 +32.11% 30
London +85 16 £65,000 -1.89% 10
UK excluding London +124 12 £59,900 +22.24% 26
Work from Home +85 10 £60,252 +20.50% 9
North of England +38 4 £75,252 +43.34% 1
Midlands +45 3 £55,000 +39.24% 6
East of England +36 3 £40,000 +42.86%
East Midlands +24 2 £49,960 +36.88% 3
North West +7 2 £90,000 +60.00%
South West +108 1 £72,500 +34.88% 3
West Midlands +51 1 £55,000 +12.24% 3
Yorkshire +51 1 £59,800 +13.90% 1
Wales +40 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £60,504 - 1

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 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 featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) QA
2 20 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 17 (47.22%) Agile
4 14 (38.89%) Selenium
4 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
5 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
6 11 (30.56%) Code Quality
6 11 (30.56%) Manual Testing
6 11 (30.56%) Python
6 11 (30.56%) Test Strategy
6 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (27.78%) DevOps
7 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
7 10 (27.78%) SQL
7 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (25.00%) API Testing
8 9 (25.00%) C#
9 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
9 8 (22.22%) Postman
10 7 (19.44%) Playwright
10 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
10 7 (19.44%) JMeter
10 7 (19.44%) Software Testing
10 7 (19.44%) Degree
11 6 (16.67%) ISTQB
11 6 (16.67%) Test Scripting
11 6 (16.67%) SDLC
11 6 (16.67%) MSTest
11 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
11 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) Azure
1 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 3 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (8.33%) GitHub
3 3 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 3 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 2 (5.56%) AWS
5 1 (2.78%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Selenium
2 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 8 (22.22%) Postman
3 7 (19.44%) JMeter
4 6 (16.67%) MSTest
5 5 (13.89%) JIRA
6 4 (11.11%) Cypress.io
6 4 (11.11%) SpecFlow
7 3 (8.33%) Bitbucket
7 3 (8.33%) Git
7 3 (8.33%) JUnit
7 3 (8.33%) Mocha
7 3 (8.33%) NUnit
7 3 (8.33%) REST Assured
7 3 (8.33%) SoapUI
8 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (5.56%) LoadRunner
8 2 (5.56%) NeoLoad
8 2 (5.56%) TestNG
8 2 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 5 (13.89%) Finance
5 3 (8.33%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Billing
7 1 (2.78%) Games
7 1 (2.78%) iGaming
7 1 (2.78%) Law
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (2.78%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Playwright
2 3 (8.33%) Jest
2 3 (8.33%) REST
2 3 (8.33%) Swagger
2 3 (8.33%) Web Services
2 3 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
3 2 (5.56%) Kafka
3 2 (5.56%) NumPy
3 2 (5.56%) Pandas
4 1 (2.78%) .NET
4 1 (2.78%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (2.78%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (2.78%) JSON
4 1 (2.78%) SOAP
4 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 3 (8.33%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 17 (47.22%) Agile
3 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 11 (30.56%) Code Quality
4 11 (30.56%) Manual Testing
4 11 (30.56%) Test Strategy
5 10 (27.78%) DevOps
5 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (25.00%) API Testing
7 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
7 7 (19.44%) Software Testing
8 6 (16.67%) Internal Audit
8 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 6 (16.67%) SDLC
8 6 (16.67%) Test Scripting
9 5 (13.89%) Validation
10 4 (11.11%) BDD
10 4 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
10 4 (11.11%) Performance Testing
10 4 (11.11%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Python
2 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
2 10 (27.78%) SQL
3 9 (25.00%) C#
4 5 (13.89%) Java
5 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.78%) Bash
6 1 (2.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 3 (8.33%) ISEB
3 3 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (8.33%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 3 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (2.78%) CyberSource