Test Leader Jobs in England

Test Lead
UK > England

The median Test Lead salary in England is £57,500 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 757 730 951
Rank change year-on-year -27 +221 -275
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 79 179 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.089% 0.21% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 60 112 135
10th Percentile £35,750 £44,675 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,125 £94,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% - +4.17%

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%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Test Leader in England

Test 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 Test 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 +100 18 £80,000 -7.25% 9
Midlands -25 15 £38,250 -30.45% 5
South East -11 14 £47,500 -8.65% 8
South West -27 14 £85,000 +25.93% 1
North of England +35 12 £60,000 +11.63%
East Midlands -15 12 £36,500 -51.33%
North West -2 7 £60,000 +9.09%
East of England -9 6 - - 1
Yorkshire +77 5 £77,500 +106.67%
West Midlands -9 3 £42,250 -23.18% 5
Test Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 job ads across the England region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 50 (63.29%) Test Automation
2 31 (39.24%) QA
3 30 (37.97%) Test Strategy
4 23 (29.11%) Selenium
5 22 (27.85%) Agile
6 20 (25.32%) ISTQB
7 19 (24.05%) DevOps
8 17 (21.52%) Software Testing
8 17 (21.52%) Manual Testing
8 17 (21.52%) Azure
8 17 (21.52%) ISEB
9 15 (18.99%) Social Skills
10 13 (16.46%) JIRA
11 12 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (15.19%) SDLC
11 12 (15.19%) CI/CD
12 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (13.92%) Finance
12 11 (13.92%) Migration
12 11 (13.92%) Performance Testing
12 11 (13.92%) SaaS
13 10 (12.66%) Cypress.io
13 10 (12.66%) User Acceptance Testing
13 10 (12.66%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (12.66%) E-Commerce
13 10 (12.66%) Line Management
14 9 (11.39%) Defect Management
14 9 (11.39%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (11.39%) JavaScript
14 9 (11.39%) SQL

Test 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 5 (6.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.52%) Azure
2 11 (13.92%) SaaS
3 9 (11.39%) AWS
4 4 (5.06%) BrowserStack
4 4 (5.06%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (2.53%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.27%) Boomi
6 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.27%) GitHub
6 1 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.06%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.27%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (29.11%) Selenium
2 13 (16.46%) JIRA
3 10 (12.66%) Cypress.io
4 8 (10.13%) JMeter
4 8 (10.13%) Postman
5 7 (8.86%) Git
5 7 (8.86%) SpecFlow
5 7 (8.86%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (7.59%) LoadRunner
7 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
7 4 (5.06%) Zephyr
8 3 (3.80%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.80%) NeoLoad
8 3 (3.80%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.53%) Appium
9 2 (2.53%) NUnit
10 1 (1.27%) GitLab
10 1 (1.27%) Phabricator
10 1 (1.27%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.27%) Serenity BDD
General
1 15 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.92%) Finance
3 9 (11.39%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (8.86%) Banking
5 4 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.53%) Law
6 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.53%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) REST
2 6 (7.59%) Swagger
3 4 (5.06%) XML
4 3 (3.80%) Playwright
5 2 (2.53%) JSON
5 2 (2.53%) SOAP
6 1 (1.27%) .NET
6 1 (1.27%) Django
6 1 (1.27%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.27%) Flask
6 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.53%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.27%) BBC
4 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.27%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Linux
1 1 (1.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (63.29%) Test Automation
2 30 (37.97%) Test Strategy
3 22 (27.85%) Agile
4 19 (24.05%) DevOps
5 17 (21.52%) Manual Testing
5 17 (21.52%) Software Testing
6 12 (15.19%) CI/CD
6 12 (15.19%) SDLC
6 12 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (13.92%) Migration
7 11 (13.92%) Performance Testing
7 11 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.66%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (12.66%) E-Commerce
8 10 (12.66%) Line Management
8 10 (12.66%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (11.39%) Defect Management
10 8 (10.13%) Performance Metrics
10 8 (10.13%) Web Testing
11 7 (8.86%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.39%) JavaScript
1 9 (11.39%) SQL
2 5 (6.33%) C#
2 5 (6.33%) Java
3 2 (2.53%) Python
4 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) ISTQB
2 17 (21.52%) ISEB
3 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.33%) Degree
5 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (39.24%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.27%) Docker
1 1 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.27%) Ansible
1 1 (1.27%) Grafana
1 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.53%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.53%) iManage
3 2 (2.53%) Intapp
4 1 (1.27%) Infor
4 1 (1.27%) SAP