SDET Contracts in the City of London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for SDET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDET over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 161 163
Rank change year-on-year +50 +2 -31
Contract jobs citing SDET 14 11 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.64% 0.30% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.33% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 28
10th Percentile £386 £456 £363
25th Percentile £445 £538 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £514
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +21.65% +14.17%
75th Percentile £575 £734 £673
90th Percentile £594 £744 £771
Central London median daily rate £500 £650 £514
% change year-on-year -23.08% +26.52% +11.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

SDET is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDET in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SDET in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDET in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDET in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (14.29%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) MQTT
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Selenium
2 7 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 6 (42.86%) REST Assured
4 4 (28.57%) JUnit
4 4 (28.57%) TestNG
5 3 (21.43%) JIRA
6 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
6 2 (14.29%) Git
6 2 (14.29%) Maven
7 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (7.14%) GitLab
7 1 (7.14%) Gradle
7 1 (7.14%) IntelliJ
7 1 (7.14%) Mocha
7 1 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
7 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
7 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
7 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Aviation
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
1 2 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) Chai
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) JAXB
2 1 (7.14%) JAX-RS
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.14%) Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Equities
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Mac OS
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (35.71%) Migration
4 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) CRM
6 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Logistics
7 2 (14.29%) BDD
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
8 1 (7.14%) API Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Backlog Refinement
8 1 (7.14%) Defect Management
8 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
8 1 (7.14%) QA Automation
8 1 (7.14%) Sprint Review
8 1 (7.14%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) iptables
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes