SDET Contracts in London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 351 394 401
Rank change year-on-year +43 +7 -25
Contract jobs citing SDET 44 108 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.25% 0.40% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.44% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 80 153
10th Percentile £413 £481 £406
25th Percentile £441 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £579 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.61% +15.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £680 £650
90th Percentile £694 £700 £749
England median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,770 24,518 35,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 91.07% 92.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,304 17,620 26,197
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 277 426
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.58 £17.21
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.75 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -26.45% +6.43% +12.03%
75th Percentile £47.34 £62.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £76.95 £67.81
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in London

SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SDET in London

SDET
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SDET in London

SDET
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the London 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
Central London +50 16 £500 -20.00% 2
SDET
England

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (2.27%) Confluence
1 1 (2.27%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) AWS
2 5 (11.36%) Azure
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.82%) GitHub
4 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
4 2 (4.55%) Serverless
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.27%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) 5G
1 2 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.27%) MQTT
2 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
1 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (52.27%) Selenium
2 19 (43.18%) Cucumber
3 12 (27.27%) Jenkins
4 11 (25.00%) REST Assured
5 7 (15.91%) SpecFlow
5 7 (15.91%) TestNG
6 6 (13.64%) Git
6 6 (13.64%) JUnit
7 5 (11.36%) Cypress.io
8 4 (9.09%) JIRA
9 3 (6.82%) SoapUI
9 3 (6.82%) WebDriver
10 2 (4.55%) Bitbucket
10 2 (4.55%) JMeter
10 2 (4.55%) Maven
11 1 (2.27%) GitLab
11 1 (2.27%) Gradle
11 1 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (2.27%) Postman
11 1 (2.27%) TestRail
General
1 17 (38.64%) Finance
2 12 (27.27%) Banking
3 6 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Aviation
5 1 (2.27%) Back Office
5 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Developer
2 6 (13.64%) Senior
2 6 (13.64%) Software Developer
3 5 (11.36%) Tester
4 4 (9.09%) Automation Tester
4 4 (9.09%) Developer in Test
4 4 (9.09%) Lead
4 4 (9.09%) QA Leader
4 4 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) QA Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Automation Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.55%) Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Java Automation Tester
6 2 (4.55%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (4.55%) QA Consultant
7 1 (2.27%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) REST
2 4 (9.09%) Playwright
3 2 (4.55%) .NET
3 2 (4.55%) Middleware
3 2 (4.55%) SwiftUI
3 2 (4.55%) Web Services
4 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.27%) Chai
4 1 (2.27%) CSS
4 1 (2.27%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.27%) HTML
4 1 (2.27%) JAXB
4 1 (2.27%) JAX-RS
4 1 (2.27%) Node.js
4 1 (2.27%) React
4 1 (2.27%) SOAP
4 1 (2.27%) Spring
4 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.82%) Fixed Income
2 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.27%) Derivative
4 1 (2.27%) Equities
4 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Android
1 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.27%) Linux
1 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
1 1 (2.27%) Unix
1 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 20 (45.45%) Software Testing
3 17 (38.64%) CI/CD
4 13 (29.55%) BDD
5 11 (25.00%) Microservices
6 9 (20.45%) Test Scripting
7 8 (18.18%) Agile
7 8 (18.18%) DevOps
8 5 (11.36%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (11.36%) Integration Testing
8 5 (11.36%) Migration
8 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (11.36%) QA Automation
9 4 (9.09%) API Testing
9 4 (9.09%) ATDD
9 4 (9.09%) Data Protection
9 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 4 (9.09%) Performance Testing
10 3 (6.82%) Fintech
10 3 (6.82%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 23 (52.27%) Java
2 13 (29.55%) Python
3 8 (18.18%) C#
3 8 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 8 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.09%) Swift
5 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) SQL
6 1 (2.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) ISTQB
2 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) ISEB
3 1 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.27%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) ISO 20022
3 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) iptables
2 1 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.82%) Oracle
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft