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 leading to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 762 818 726
Rank change year-on-year +56 -92 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 89 81 502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.098% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.11% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 65 76 144
10th Percentile £31,100 £47,481 £48,750
25th Percentile £42,750 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £79,500 £100,000 £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

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 90,043 75,204 138,046
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.22% 95.88%
Number of salaries quoted 65,775 49,529 75,271
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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%

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 11 June 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 11 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 +82 31 £66,250 -26.39% 5
Midlands -29 15 £36,500 -33.64% 2
South East -20 13 £47,500 -40.63% 6
South West -21 12 £50,000 -9.09% 4
North of England +18 10 £52,500 -19.23% 2
East Midlands -30 10 £36,500 -27.00% 2
Yorkshire +57 8 £52,500 -4.55% 2
East of England - 8 £28,000 - 2
West Midlands -24 5 £49,000 -11.71%
North West -18 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 11 June 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 89 (100.00%) QA
2 43 (48.31%) Test Automation
3 29 (32.58%) Agile
4 20 (22.47%) Selenium
5 19 (21.35%) Test Strategy
6 18 (20.22%) DevOps
6 18 (20.22%) Manual Testing
6 18 (20.22%) ISTQB
7 17 (19.10%) ISEB
8 16 (17.98%) Azure
8 16 (17.98%) AWS
8 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (15.73%) Manufacturing
10 13 (14.61%) SDLC
11 12 (13.48%) Validation
11 12 (13.48%) SaaS
11 12 (13.48%) Line Management
12 11 (12.36%) Cypress.io
12 11 (12.36%) C#
13 10 (11.24%) E-Commerce
13 10 (11.24%) Software Testing
13 10 (11.24%) Degree
13 10 (11.24%) FMCG
13 10 (11.24%) Appium
13 10 (11.24%) GCP
14 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
14 9 (10.11%) Performance Testing
14 9 (10.11%) Git
14 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
14 9 (10.11%) Microsoft

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 (2.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.98%) AWS
1 16 (17.98%) Azure
2 12 (13.48%) SaaS
3 10 (11.24%) GCP
4 7 (7.87%) BrowserStack
5 6 (6.74%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (3.37%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.25%) GitHub
7 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.12%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (22.47%) Selenium
2 11 (12.36%) Cypress.io
3 10 (11.24%) Appium
4 9 (10.11%) Git
5 7 (7.87%) Cucumber
5 7 (7.87%) JIRA
6 6 (6.74%) JMeter
6 6 (6.74%) SpecFlow
6 6 (6.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (4.49%) CircleCI
8 3 (3.37%) XCUITest
9 2 (2.25%) TestRail
10 1 (1.12%) Calabash
10 1 (1.12%) eggPlant
10 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
10 1 (1.12%) Postman
10 1 (1.12%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.12%) TestCafe
10 1 (1.12%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (1.12%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (15.73%) Manufacturing
2 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (8.99%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (7.87%) Finance
5 6 (6.74%) Retail
6 3 (3.37%) Marketing
6 3 (3.37%) Social Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Police
8 1 (1.12%) Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Front Office
8 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.99%) REST
2 5 (5.62%) Playwright
3 3 (3.37%) .NET
3 3 (3.37%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.37%) RESTful
3 3 (3.37%) WPF
4 1 (1.12%) Puppeteer
4 1 (1.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) FMCG
2 6 (6.74%) NHS
2 6 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.25%) Hackathon
4 2 (2.25%) Replication
5 1 (1.12%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.12%) Derivative
5 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.12%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.87%) Windows
2 3 (3.37%) Android
3 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (48.31%) Test Automation
2 29 (32.58%) Agile
3 19 (21.35%) Test Strategy
4 18 (20.22%) DevOps
4 18 (20.22%) Manual Testing
5 16 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.61%) SDLC
7 12 (13.48%) Line Management
7 12 (13.48%) Validation
8 10 (11.24%) E-Commerce
8 10 (11.24%) Software Testing
9 9 (10.11%) Performance Testing
10 8 (8.99%) Web Testing
11 7 (7.87%) BDD
11 7 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (6.74%) Data Analysis
12 6 (6.74%) ETL
12 6 (6.74%) QA Automation
12 6 (6.74%) Scrum
12 6 (6.74%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.36%) C#
2 5 (5.62%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.49%) SQL
4 3 (3.37%) Java
5 2 (2.25%) PL/1
5 2 (2.25%) Python
6 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (20.22%) ISTQB
2 17 (19.10%) ISEB
3 10 (11.24%) Degree
4 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (100.00%) QA
2 6 (6.74%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.12%) Firmware
2 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.49%) Databricks
3 3 (3.37%) Micro Focus
3 3 (3.37%) Oracle
3 3 (3.37%) Salesforce