SDET Contracts in Manchester

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 115 141
Rank change year-on-year +20 +26 -45
Contract jobs citing SDET 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.27% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile - - £393
25th Percentile - £388 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £433
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.51% +6.46%
75th Percentile - £413 £464
90th Percentile - - £478
North West median daily rate £500 £400 £390
% change year-on-year +25.00% +2.56% -14.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,272 1,682 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.12% 91.71% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 1,235 1,806
10th Percentile £325 £316 £265
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £587
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 54 50
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.85 £11.33
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £37.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.29% +140.65% -3.82%
75th Percentile £60.63 £47.82 £24.69
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £20.13
% change year-on-year -33.89% +78.84% +9.28%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for SDET in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 3 (75.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer in Test
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Fintech
3 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA