Test Leader Jobs in the South East

Test Lead
England > South East

The median Test Lead salary in the South East is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 353 455
Rank change year-on-year -36 +102 -95
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 15 24 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.080% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.20% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 45
10th Percentile - - £45,460
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -16.80% +13.64%
75th Percentile £53,750 £54,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £54,875 £67,825 £74,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 17,582 11,899 20,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,383 7,812 12,372
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in the South East

Test Leader
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in the South East.

Salary trend for Test Leader in the South East

Test Leader
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the South East region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Hampshire -27 11 £47,500 -37.70% 1
Kent - 2 - -
Thames Valley -12 1 - - 4
Buckinghamshire -20 1 - - 3
Surrey -22 1 £55,000 +5.77%
Test Leader
England

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 South East region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (86.67%) Software Testing
3 12 (80.00%) Selenium
4 11 (73.33%) Test Strategy
5 10 (66.67%) QA
5 10 (66.67%) ISTQB
6 9 (60.00%) ISEB
7 8 (53.33%) E-Commerce
7 8 (53.33%) Web Testing
7 8 (53.33%) SaaS
7 8 (53.33%) Line Management
7 8 (53.33%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (26.67%) Postman
8 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
9 3 (20.00%) Azure
9 3 (20.00%) SoapUI
9 3 (20.00%) JIRA
9 3 (20.00%) SQL
9 3 (20.00%) Agile
9 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
9 3 (20.00%) DevOps
9 3 (20.00%) API Testing
9 3 (20.00%) Swagger
10 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (13.33%) User Stories
10 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
10 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
10 2 (13.33%) Robotic Automation
10 2 (13.33%) SDLC
10 2 (13.33%) Benchmarking

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (53.33%) SaaS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Selenium
2 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
2 4 (26.67%) Postman
3 3 (20.00%) JIRA
3 3 (20.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (6.67%) JMeter
4 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
4 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (53.33%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Swagger
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) SOAP
2 2 (13.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (86.67%) Software Testing
3 11 (73.33%) Test Strategy
4 8 (53.33%) E-Commerce
4 8 (53.33%) Line Management
4 8 (53.33%) Web Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) API Testing
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Benchmarking
6 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (13.33%) Robotic Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (13.33%) User Stories
7 1 (6.67%) Release Management
7 1 (6.67%) Scrum
7 1 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 9 (60.00%) ISEB
3 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) QA