Test Leader Jobs with Work from Home Options

Test Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Lead salary in Work from Home is £52,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 557 766
Rank change year-on-year +8 +209 -267
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 44 106 86
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.25% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 30 52 51
10th Percentile £35,750 £51,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £55,313 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,625 £85,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £107,750 £88,600 £93,750
UK median annual salary £53,750 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -17.31% +4.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,500 39,912 66,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,881 28,336 41,924
10th Percentile £33,013 £36,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Leader trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Leader
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Leader.

Test Leader salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Leader
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Leader over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Test Leader salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 21 (47.73%) Test Automation
2 14 (31.82%) Azure
3 11 (25.00%) DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) Manual Testing
4 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
4 9 (20.45%) Agile
4 9 (20.45%) QA
4 9 (20.45%) Selenium
5 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (18.18%) ISTQB
5 8 (18.18%) SDLC
6 7 (15.91%) REST
6 7 (15.91%) Git
6 7 (15.91%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
6 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
6 7 (15.91%) ISEB
6 7 (15.91%) Finance
6 7 (15.91%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (13.64%) Python
7 6 (13.64%) Manufacturing
7 6 (13.64%) Open Source
7 6 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (13.64%) Test Strategy
8 5 (11.36%) AWS
8 5 (11.36%) TestNG
8 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Banking

Test Leader 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:

Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) AWS
3 3 (6.82%) BrowserStack
3 3 (6.82%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Selenium
2 7 (15.91%) Git
2 7 (15.91%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (11.36%) JUnit
3 5 (11.36%) TestNG
4 4 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 4 (9.09%) Postman
5 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.82%) JMeter
5 3 (6.82%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.27%) Appium
6 1 (2.27%) GitLab
6 1 (2.27%) JIRA
6 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.27%) NeoLoad
6 1 (2.27%) Phabricator
General
1 7 (15.91%) Finance
2 6 (13.64%) Manufacturing
3 5 (11.36%) Banking
4 4 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
5 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) REST
2 4 (9.09%) Swagger
3 1 (2.27%) Django
3 1 (2.27%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.27%) Flask
3 1 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (11.36%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) BBC
4 1 (2.27%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Test Automation
2 11 (25.00%) DevOps
3 9 (20.45%) Agile
3 9 (20.45%) Manual Testing
4 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (18.18%) SDLC
5 6 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (13.64%) Open Source
5 6 (13.64%) Test Strategy
6 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
6 5 (11.36%) Migration
7 4 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (9.09%) API Testing
7 4 (9.09%) Data Analysis
7 4 (9.09%) Ergonomics
7 4 (9.09%) Human Factors
7 4 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
7 4 (9.09%) Performance Testing
7 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Python
2 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.09%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) ISTQB
3 7 (15.91%) ISEB
4 4 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.55%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (4.55%) CREST Certified
5 2 (4.55%) DBS Check
5 2 (4.55%) Degree
6 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.45%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.55%) ISO 9001
3 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.27%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
1 1 (2.27%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Ansible
1 1 (2.27%) Grafana
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Thales
3 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.27%) SAP