Test Lead
UK

The median Test Lead salary in the UK is £53,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 802 746 974
Rank change year-on-year -56 +228 -287
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 92 248 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.24% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.26% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 64 158 127
10th Percentile £35,750 £47,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,375 £50,469 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £88,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,375 £98,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,894 96,310 147,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.58% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,756 60,420 85,018
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in the UK

Test Leader
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Leader in the UK

Test Leader
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Leader over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Leader in the UK

Test Leader
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England -25 77 £52,500 -19.23% 22
UK excluding London -57 70 £51,250 -6.82% 15
Work from Home +39 47 £49,000 -28.73% 6
London +60 17 £80,000 -10.61% 10
South East +6 15 £47,500 -8.65% 7
Midlands -15 15 £36,500 -33.64% 4
North of England +16 12 £60,000 +4.35%
South West -21 12 £85,000 +25.93%
East Midlands -17 11 £36,500 -39.17% 1
North West -2 7 £60,000 -
East of England +23 6 - - 2
Wales +10 6 £52,500 -12.50%
Yorkshire +79 5 £77,500 +40.91%
West Midlands -1 4 £44,500 -19.09% 3
Scotland -61 2 £45,388 -35.16% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 63 (68.48%) Test Automation
2 38 (41.30%) QA
2 38 (41.30%) Test Strategy
3 31 (33.70%) Selenium
4 25 (27.17%) DevOps
5 24 (26.09%) Agile
6 23 (25.00%) Azure
7 21 (22.83%) Social Skills
8 20 (21.74%) ISTQB
8 20 (21.74%) JavaScript
9 19 (20.65%) CI/CD
10 18 (19.57%) Software Testing
11 17 (18.48%) ISEB
12 16 (17.39%) Manual Testing
13 14 (15.22%) Line Management
14 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
14 13 (14.13%) Git
14 13 (14.13%) REST
14 13 (14.13%) SQL
14 13 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (13.04%) Performance Testing
15 12 (13.04%) SDLC
16 11 (11.96%) Jenkins
16 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (11.96%) JIRA
16 11 (11.96%) SaaS
16 11 (11.96%) AWS
16 11 (11.96%) Python
17 10 (10.87%) E-Commerce
17 10 (10.87%) Continuous Integration

Test 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 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.00%) Azure
2 11 (11.96%) AWS
2 11 (11.96%) SaaS
3 4 (4.35%) GCP
4 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.26%) BrowserStack
4 3 (3.26%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (2.17%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.09%) Boomi
6 1 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.09%) GitHub
6 1 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 4 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (33.70%) Selenium
2 13 (14.13%) Git
3 11 (11.96%) Jenkins
3 11 (11.96%) JIRA
4 8 (8.70%) Cypress.io
4 8 (8.70%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (7.61%) JUnit
5 7 (7.61%) Postman
5 7 (7.61%) TestNG
6 6 (6.52%) JMeter
6 6 (6.52%) LoadRunner
7 5 (5.43%) SpecFlow
8 4 (4.35%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.35%) Zephyr
9 3 (3.26%) NeoLoad
10 2 (2.17%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.17%) TestRail
11 1 (1.09%) Appium
11 1 (1.09%) GitLab
11 1 (1.09%) NUnit
General
1 21 (22.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.78%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (8.70%) Finance
4 6 (6.52%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.35%) Banking
5 4 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.26%) Law
7 2 (2.17%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.17%) Retail
7 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.13%) REST
2 6 (6.52%) Swagger
3 3 (3.26%) XML
4 2 (2.17%) .NET
4 2 (2.17%) JSON
4 2 (2.17%) Playwright
4 2 (2.17%) SOAP
5 1 (1.09%) Django
5 1 (1.09%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.09%) Flask
5 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.09%) BBC
4 1 (1.09%) Cybercrime
4 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (68.48%) Test Automation
2 38 (41.30%) Test Strategy
3 25 (27.17%) DevOps
4 24 (26.09%) Agile
5 19 (20.65%) CI/CD
6 18 (19.57%) Software Testing
7 16 (17.39%) Manual Testing
8 14 (15.22%) Line Management
9 13 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (13.04%) Performance Testing
10 12 (13.04%) SDLC
11 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (10.87%) E-Commerce
13 9 (9.78%) Defect Management
13 9 (9.78%) Mentoring
13 9 (9.78%) Migration
14 8 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
14 8 (8.70%) Web Testing
15 7 (7.61%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.74%) JavaScript
2 13 (14.13%) SQL
3 11 (11.96%) Python
4 8 (8.70%) C#
5 5 (5.43%) Java
6 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (21.74%) ISTQB
2 17 (18.48%) ISEB
3 13 (14.13%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.52%) Degree
5 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.17%) CHECK Team Leader
7 2 (2.17%) CREST Certified
7 2 (2.17%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (41.30%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.17%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.09%) Docker
1 1 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.09%) Ansible
1 1 (1.09%) Grafana
1 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.09%) Podman
Vendors
1 8 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.26%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.17%) iManage
3 2 (2.17%) Intapp
3 2 (2.17%) Thales
4 1 (1.09%) Infor
4 1 (1.09%) SAP