Test Leader Jobs with Work from Home Options

Test Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Lead salary for remote or hybrid work is £55,000 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 556 535 792
Rank change year-on-year -21 +257 -279
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Leader 46 98 109
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.27% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 33 43 64
10th Percentile £35,750 £45,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £85,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +8.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Leader trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Leader
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Leader.

Test Leader salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Leader
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Leader over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Test Leader salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 21 (45.65%) Test Automation
2 15 (32.61%) Azure
3 12 (26.09%) QA
4 11 (23.91%) Selenium
5 10 (21.74%) DevOps
5 10 (21.74%) Finance
5 10 (21.74%) Agile
6 9 (19.57%) ISTQB
6 9 (19.57%) Test Strategy
6 9 (19.57%) Manual Testing
7 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
7 8 (17.39%) Banking
8 7 (15.22%) Migration
8 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
8 7 (15.22%) Data Migration
8 7 (15.22%) AWS
8 7 (15.22%) Git
8 7 (15.22%) SDLC
9 6 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
9 6 (13.04%) Postman
9 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
9 6 (13.04%) REST
9 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (13.04%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (13.04%) Cypress.io
9 6 (13.04%) Open Source
9 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
9 6 (13.04%) Microsoft

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (2.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) AWS
3 4 (8.70%) BrowserStack
3 4 (8.70%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.17%) SaaS
5 1 (2.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.17%) MariaDB
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) Selenium
2 7 (15.22%) Git
3 6 (13.04%) Cypress.io
3 6 (13.04%) Postman
3 6 (13.04%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (10.87%) JMeter
4 5 (10.87%) JUnit
4 5 (10.87%) TestNG
5 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
5 4 (8.70%) SpecFlow
6 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
7 2 (4.35%) Appium
7 2 (4.35%) JIRA
7 2 (4.35%) LoadRunner
7 2 (4.35%) NeoLoad
8 1 (2.17%) GitLab
8 1 (2.17%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.17%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (2.17%) SoapUI
8 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (21.74%) Finance
2 8 (17.39%) Banking
3 6 (13.04%) Manufacturing
3 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
5 2 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) REST
2 4 (8.70%) Swagger
3 1 (2.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.17%) Django
3 1 (2.17%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.17%) Flask
3 1 (2.17%) Playwright
3 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.35%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.17%) BBC
4 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Test Automation
2 10 (21.74%) Agile
2 10 (21.74%) DevOps
3 9 (19.57%) Manual Testing
3 9 (19.57%) Test Strategy
4 8 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.22%) Data Migration
5 7 (15.22%) Migration
5 7 (15.22%) SDLC
6 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (13.04%) Open Source
7 5 (10.87%) ETL
7 5 (10.87%) Software Testing
7 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (8.70%) Data Analysis
8 4 (8.70%) Ergonomics
8 4 (8.70%) Human Factors
8 4 (8.70%) Non-Functional Testing
8 4 (8.70%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) Python
2 5 (10.87%) Java
2 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.52%) C#
4 1 (2.17%) SQL
4 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) ISTQB
2 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) ISEB
4 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.52%) Degree
6 2 (4.35%) DBS Check
6 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.09%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
1 1 (2.17%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (2.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Ansible
1 1 (2.17%) Grafana
1 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) OpenAI
2 2 (4.35%) Thales
3 1 (2.17%) SAP
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