Lead Test Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Test Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £64,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 583 646
Rank change year-on-year +177 +63 +176
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Test Engineer 7 6 25
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.047% 0.018% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.018% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 15
10th Percentile £55,000 - £45,123
25th Percentile £56,500 £41,998 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.96% -11.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,313 £65,000 £78,382
90th Percentile £76,250 - -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £45,996 £55,000
% change year-on-year +46.75% -16.37% -15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Lead Test Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Test Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Test Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead Test Engineer.

Lead Test Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Test Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead Test Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Lead Test Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Lead Test Engineer 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Lead Test Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) QA
3 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Coaching
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 2 (28.57%) Games
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
4 2 (28.57%) Selenium
4 2 (28.57%) Online Games
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
5 1 (14.29%) Image Processing
5 1 (14.29%) Bash
5 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 1 (14.29%) Stress Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing

Lead Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Appium
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
2 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
2 1 (14.29%) TestComplete
2 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) pytest
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Client/Server
1 2 (28.57%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Coaching
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Vision
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (14.29%) Fintech
5 1 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA