Test Leader Jobs in England

Test Lead
UK > England

The median Test Lead salary in England is £60,000 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 779 729 963
Rank change year-on-year -50 +234 -272
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 84 165 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 61 97 141
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 12 June 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 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
London +62 21 £80,000 -5.88% 16
Midlands -52 16 £40,000 -28.57% 6
South East -36 15 £47,500 -8.65% 5
South West -45 14 £85,000 +25.93% 1
North of England -2 12 £60,000 +11.63% 1
East Midlands -29 11 £36,500 -51.33% 1
North West -31 7 £60,000 +9.09% 1
East of England -14 6 - -
Yorkshire +64 5 £77,500 +106.67%
West Midlands -24 5 £42,250 -23.87% 5
Test Leader
UK

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

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 England region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 52 (61.90%) Test Automation
2 31 (36.90%) Test Strategy
2 31 (36.90%) QA
3 25 (29.76%) Selenium
3 25 (29.76%) Agile
4 24 (28.57%) ISTQB
5 22 (26.19%) Software Testing
6 19 (22.62%) ISEB
6 19 (22.62%) DevOps
7 18 (21.43%) Manual Testing
7 18 (21.43%) Azure
8 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
9 15 (17.86%) CI/CD
9 15 (17.86%) Finance
10 14 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (15.48%) Performance Testing
11 13 (15.48%) JIRA
11 13 (15.48%) Migration
11 13 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (15.48%) SDLC
11 13 (15.48%) Defect Management
12 11 (13.10%) SQL
12 11 (13.10%) SaaS
13 10 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
13 10 (11.90%) Cypress.io
13 10 (11.90%) E-Commerce
13 10 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (11.90%) Performance Metrics
13 10 (11.90%) Line Management
14 9 (10.71%) SpecFlow

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 (5.95%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.43%) Azure
2 11 (13.10%) SaaS
3 9 (10.71%) AWS
4 4 (4.76%) BrowserStack
4 4 (4.76%) Sauce Labs
5 3 (3.57%) Tricentis Tosca
6 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.19%) Boomi
7 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.19%) GitHub
7 1 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 4 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.19%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (29.76%) Selenium
2 13 (15.48%) JIRA
3 10 (11.90%) Cypress.io
4 9 (10.71%) SpecFlow
5 8 (9.52%) JMeter
5 8 (9.52%) Postman
6 7 (8.33%) Git
6 7 (8.33%) LoadRunner
7 6 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (4.76%) Jenkins
8 4 (4.76%) NeoLoad
8 4 (4.76%) NUnit
8 4 (4.76%) Zephyr
9 3 (3.57%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.57%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.38%) Appium
11 1 (1.19%) GitLab
11 1 (1.19%) Phabricator
11 1 (1.19%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.19%) Serenity BDD
General
1 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.86%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Banking
3 9 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.38%) Law
5 2 (2.38%) Legal
5 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.38%) Retail
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.14%) REST
1 6 (7.14%) Swagger
1 6 (7.14%) XML
2 3 (3.57%) Playwright
3 2 (2.38%) JSON
3 2 (2.38%) SOAP
4 1 (1.19%) .NET
4 1 (1.19%) Django
4 1 (1.19%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.19%) Flask
4 1 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.38%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.19%) BBC
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.19%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (61.90%) Test Automation
2 31 (36.90%) Test Strategy
3 25 (29.76%) Agile
4 22 (26.19%) Software Testing
5 19 (22.62%) DevOps
6 18 (21.43%) Manual Testing
7 15 (17.86%) CI/CD
8 14 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (15.48%) Defect Management
9 13 (15.48%) Migration
9 13 (15.48%) Performance Testing
9 13 (15.48%) SDLC
9 13 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (11.90%) E-Commerce
10 10 (11.90%) Line Management
10 10 (11.90%) Performance Metrics
10 10 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (10.71%) Functional Testing
11 9 (10.71%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.10%) SQL
2 9 (10.71%) JavaScript
3 7 (8.33%) C#
4 5 (5.95%) Java
5 2 (2.38%) Python
6 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 19 (22.62%) ISEB
3 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.14%) Degree
5 4 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (36.90%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
1 1 (1.19%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.19%) Ansible
1 1 (1.19%) Grafana
1 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (2.38%) iManage
3 2 (2.38%) Intapp
4 1 (1.19%) Infor
4 1 (1.19%) SAP