SDET Contracts in England

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 472 533 537
Rank change year-on-year +61 +4 -19
Contract jobs citing SDET 64 121 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.24% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.27% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 92 187
10th Percentile £410 £457 £400
25th Percentile £425 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £625
90th Percentile £626 £700 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,110 45,282 64,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.21% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,055 31,791 45,856
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,587 1,766
10th Percentile £12.95 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.68
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SDET in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDET in England.

Daily rate trend for SDET in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDET in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDET in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDET in England.

Hourly rate trend for SDET in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +43 44 £500 -13.61% 9
South East +32 9 £450 -20.00% 5
North of England - 9 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 5 £450 - 2
North West - 4 £500 -
Midlands +25 2 - - 3
West Midlands +20 2 - - 3
SDET
UK

SDET
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 (7.81%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.63%) AWS
1 10 (15.63%) Azure
2 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
2 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (4.69%) GitHub
3 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (3.13%) GCP
3 2 (3.13%) Serverless
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.56%) BrowserStack
4 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.13%) 5G
2 2 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
1 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (50.00%) Selenium
2 21 (32.81%) Cucumber
3 19 (29.69%) Jenkins
4 13 (20.31%) REST Assured
5 12 (18.75%) Git
6 10 (15.63%) TestNG
7 8 (12.50%) Bitbucket
7 8 (12.50%) JIRA
7 8 (12.50%) SpecFlow
8 7 (10.94%) JUnit
9 6 (9.38%) JMeter
10 5 (7.81%) Cypress.io
11 4 (6.25%) Artifactory
11 4 (6.25%) Maven
11 4 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (6.25%) TeamCity
12 3 (4.69%) SoapUI
12 3 (4.69%) WebDriver
13 2 (3.13%) GitLab
14 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (26.56%) Finance
2 12 (18.75%) Banking
3 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.56%) Aviation
6 1 (1.56%) Back Office
6 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (18.75%) Developer
2 9 (14.06%) Software Developer
2 9 (14.06%) Tester
3 7 (10.94%) Developer in Test
3 7 (10.94%) Software Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Senior
4 6 (9.38%) Test Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Automation Tester
5 5 (7.81%) Development Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) QA Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Software Development Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Test Development Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Lead
6 4 (6.25%) QA Leader
6 4 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (3.13%) QA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) REST
2 5 (7.81%) Playwright
2 5 (7.81%) SOAP
2 5 (7.81%) XML
3 4 (6.25%) RESTful
4 3 (4.69%) .NET
5 2 (3.13%) Middleware
5 2 (3.13%) SwiftUI
5 2 (3.13%) Web Services
6 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.56%) Chai
6 1 (1.56%) CSS
6 1 (1.56%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.56%) HTML
6 1 (1.56%) JAXB
6 1 (1.56%) JAX-RS
6 1 (1.56%) Node.js
6 1 (1.56%) React
6 1 (1.56%) Spring
6 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.69%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.56%) Derivative
5 1 (1.56%) Equities
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Machine to Machine
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
1 5 (7.81%) Windows
2 4 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Android
3 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (81.25%) Test Automation
2 32 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
4 22 (34.38%) Agile
5 18 (28.13%) BDD
6 13 (20.31%) Microservices
6 13 (20.31%) Test Scripting
7 11 (17.19%) DevOps
7 11 (17.19%) End-to-End Testing
8 9 (14.06%) API Testing
8 9 (14.06%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (10.94%) Manual Testing
9 7 (10.94%) QA Automation
9 7 (10.94%) TDD
10 6 (9.38%) Fintech
10 6 (9.38%) Integration Testing
10 6 (9.38%) Migration
10 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (9.38%) Scrum
11 5 (7.81%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) Java
2 18 (28.13%) Python
3 14 (21.88%) C#
4 10 (15.63%) SQL
5 8 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.25%) C++
7 4 (6.25%) Swift
8 1 (1.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (9.38%) ISTQB
2 5 (7.81%) Degree
3 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) ISEB
4 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (32.81%) QA
2 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.69%) ISO 20022
3 3 (4.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (6.25%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) VirtualBox
3 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) iptables
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Oracle
2 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft