Lead Tester Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Tester salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 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 411 588 632
Rank change year-on-year +177 +44 +174
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Tester 2 1 39
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.003% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.003% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 28
10th Percentile - - £55,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £72,500 £83,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -14.29% +20.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £121,250
90th Percentile - - £122,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% -14.29% +34.62%

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 Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lead Tester trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Tester
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lead Tester salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Tester Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Lead Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
1 2 (100.00%) Postman

Lead Tester 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 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA