Test Leader Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Lead salary in the UK excluding London is £52,500 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 708 617 767
Rank change year-on-year -91 +150 -187
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 72 111 107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.090% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.23% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 51 59 75
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £41,125 £50,000 £45,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £70,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in the UK excluding London

Test Leader
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Test Leader in the UK excluding London

Test Leader
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Leader in the UK excluding London

Test Leader
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the UK excluding London 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
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 - -
Wales - 6 £52,500 -
Yorkshire +64 5 £77,500 +106.67%
West Midlands -24 5 £42,250 -23.87% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
Scotland -68 1 £35,776 -48.89% 1
Test Leader
UK

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 50 (69.44%) Test Automation
2 30 (41.67%) Test Strategy
3 29 (40.28%) QA
4 27 (37.50%) Selenium
5 23 (31.94%) Software Testing
6 19 (26.39%) ISTQB
6 19 (26.39%) DevOps
7 18 (25.00%) Agile
8 16 (22.22%) Azure
9 15 (20.83%) JavaScript
9 15 (20.83%) ISEB
9 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
10 14 (19.44%) Manual Testing
11 13 (18.06%) CI/CD
12 11 (15.28%) Performance Testing
12 11 (15.28%) SaaS
12 11 (15.28%) Line Management
12 11 (15.28%) SQL
12 11 (15.28%) JIRA
13 10 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (13.89%) E-Commerce
13 10 (13.89%) Cypress.io
13 10 (13.89%) AWS
13 10 (13.89%) REST
13 10 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
14 9 (12.50%) Git
14 9 (12.50%) Functional Testing
14 9 (12.50%) SDLC
14 9 (12.50%) Organisational Skills

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.22%) Azure
2 11 (15.28%) SaaS
3 10 (13.89%) AWS
4 4 (5.56%) BrowserStack
4 4 (5.56%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.78%) GCP
6 1 (1.39%) Boomi
6 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.39%) GitHub
6 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.39%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 4 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.39%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (37.50%) Selenium
2 11 (15.28%) JIRA
3 10 (13.89%) Cypress.io
4 9 (12.50%) Git
5 8 (11.11%) JMeter
5 8 (11.11%) Postman
6 6 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 6 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (6.94%) SpecFlow
8 4 (5.56%) Zephyr
9 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (4.17%) JUnit
9 3 (4.17%) LoadRunner
9 3 (4.17%) SoapUI
9 3 (4.17%) TestNG
10 2 (2.78%) Appium
11 1 (1.39%) Phabricator
11 1 (1.39%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.39%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.56%) Finance
5 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) REST
2 6 (8.33%) Swagger
3 3 (4.17%) Playwright
4 2 (2.78%) JSON
4 2 (2.78%) SOAP
4 2 (2.78%) XML
5 1 (1.39%) .NET
5 1 (1.39%) Django
5 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.39%) Flask
5 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Linux
1 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (69.44%) Test Automation
2 30 (41.67%) Test Strategy
3 23 (31.94%) Software Testing
4 19 (26.39%) DevOps
5 18 (25.00%) Agile
6 14 (19.44%) Manual Testing
7 13 (18.06%) CI/CD
8 11 (15.28%) Line Management
8 11 (15.28%) Performance Testing
9 10 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (13.89%) E-Commerce
9 10 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (12.50%) Functional Testing
10 9 (12.50%) SDLC
11 8 (11.11%) Software Engineering
11 8 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (11.11%) Web Testing
12 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
12 7 (9.72%) Regression Testing
13 6 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.83%) JavaScript
2 11 (15.28%) SQL
3 7 (9.72%) C#
4 5 (6.94%) Java
5 4 (5.56%) Python
6 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) ISTQB
2 15 (20.83%) ISEB
3 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 7 (9.72%) Degree
5 4 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (40.28%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Docker
1 1 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Ansible
1 1 (1.39%) Grafana
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.39%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.78%) Thales
3 1 (1.39%) Infor
3 1 (1.39%) SAP