Test Leader Jobs in the West Midlands

Test Lead
England > West Midlands

The median Test Lead salary in the West Midlands is £44,500 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 256 255 271
Rank change year-on-year -1 +16 -63
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 4 24 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.055% 0.36% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.39% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 7
10th Percentile £40,450 £43,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,125 £46,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +22.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £69,625 £57,500 £55,625
90th Percentile £83,350 £67,500 £60,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% -4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,806 6,079 6,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.99% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,153 3,364 4,759
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,912 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in the West Midlands

Test Leader
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Leader in the West Midlands

Test Leader
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Test Leader in the West Midlands

Test Leader
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the West Midlands region 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
Warwickshire +38 2 £90,000 +80.00% 1
Birmingham -8 1 £40,000 -27.27%
Staffordshire -19 1 £44,500 -19.09% 2
Test Leader
England

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

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 across the West Midlands region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) TestNG
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) Cybercrime
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) CHECK Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) JUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cybercrime
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (25.00%) SDLC
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Test Management
1 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CHECK Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) CREST Certified
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 9001
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SAP