QA Leader Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Lead
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Lead salary in England is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 746 820 990
Rank change year-on-year +74 +170 -247
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 90 89 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 69 81 138
10th Percentile £34,200 £47,481 £50,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,500 £56,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in England

QA Leader
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Leader in England

QA Leader
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA Leader in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA Leader in England

QA Leader
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
London +136 31 £66,250 -26.39% 2
Midlands -10 18 £39,500 -26.85% 3
South East +8 13 £47,500 -40.63%
East Midlands -8 12 £36,500 -27.00% 2
North of England +45 10 £52,500 -19.23% 2
South West -21 10 £53,750 -2.27% 5
Yorkshire +79 8 £52,500 -12.50% 2
East of England - 8 £28,000 - 2
West Midlands -2 6 £49,000 -10.91% 1
North West +7 2 £56,250 +32.35%
QA Leader
UK

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, QA 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 England region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 90 (100.00%) QA
2 47 (52.22%) Test Automation
3 30 (33.33%) Agile
4 22 (24.44%) Selenium
5 19 (21.11%) ISTQB
5 19 (21.11%) Manual Testing
5 19 (21.11%) Test Strategy
5 19 (21.11%) DevOps
6 18 (20.00%) ISEB
6 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (18.89%) Azure
8 16 (17.78%) AWS
9 14 (15.56%) Manufacturing
9 14 (15.56%) SDLC
10 13 (14.44%) Validation
11 12 (13.33%) C#
11 12 (13.33%) Line Management
11 12 (13.33%) SaaS
12 11 (12.22%) Cypress.io
12 11 (12.22%) Software Testing
13 10 (11.11%) Degree
13 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
13 10 (11.11%) E-Commerce
13 10 (11.11%) Microsoft
13 10 (11.11%) FMCG
13 10 (11.11%) Appium
13 10 (11.11%) GCP
14 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
14 9 (10.00%) REST
14 9 (10.00%) Git

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.89%) Azure
2 16 (17.78%) AWS
3 12 (13.33%) SaaS
4 10 (11.11%) GCP
5 7 (7.78%) BrowserStack
6 6 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
7 3 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub
8 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (24.44%) Selenium
2 11 (12.22%) Cypress.io
3 10 (11.11%) Appium
4 9 (10.00%) Git
5 8 (8.89%) JIRA
6 7 (7.78%) Cucumber
6 7 (7.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (6.67%) JMeter
7 6 (6.67%) SpecFlow
8 4 (4.44%) CircleCI
9 3 (3.33%) TestRail
9 3 (3.33%) XCUITest
10 2 (2.22%) SoapUI
11 1 (1.11%) Bugzilla
11 1 (1.11%) Calabash
11 1 (1.11%) eggPlant
11 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
11 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
11 1 (1.11%) WebDriver
11 1 (1.11%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (15.56%) Manufacturing
2 9 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (7.78%) Finance
5 6 (6.67%) Retail
6 4 (4.44%) Social Skills
7 3 (3.33%) Marketing
8 2 (2.22%) Police
9 1 (1.11%) Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Front Office
9 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) REST
2 5 (5.56%) Playwright
3 3 (3.33%) .NET
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.33%) RESTful
3 3 (3.33%) WPF
4 2 (2.22%) SOAP
5 1 (1.11%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) FMCG
2 7 (7.78%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.67%) NHS
4 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.22%) Hackathon
5 2 (2.22%) Replication
6 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.11%) Derivative
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Windows
2 3 (3.33%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (52.22%) Test Automation
2 30 (33.33%) Agile
3 19 (21.11%) DevOps
3 19 (21.11%) Manual Testing
3 19 (21.11%) Test Strategy
4 18 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.56%) SDLC
6 13 (14.44%) Validation
7 12 (13.33%) Line Management
8 11 (12.22%) Software Testing
9 10 (11.11%) E-Commerce
10 9 (10.00%) Performance Testing
11 8 (8.89%) Web Testing
12 7 (7.78%) BDD
12 7 (7.78%) QA Automation
12 7 (7.78%) Scrum
12 7 (7.78%) User Acceptance Testing
13 6 (6.67%) API Testing
13 6 (6.67%) Compliance Audit
13 6 (6.67%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.33%) C#
2 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
2 5 (5.56%) SQL
3 3 (3.33%) Java
4 2 (2.22%) PL/1
4 2 (2.22%) Python
5 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
5 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (21.11%) ISTQB
2 18 (20.00%) ISEB
3 10 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (100.00%) QA
2 6 (6.67%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Firmware
2 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.56%) Databricks
3 3 (3.33%) Micro Focus
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle
3 3 (3.33%) Salesforce