SDET Contracts in Scotland

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 141 174
Rank change year-on-year +14 +33 -20
Contract jobs citing SDET 3 22 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% 0.77% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.83% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 1
10th Percentile £496 £410 -
25th Percentile £497 £442 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% - +6.80%
75th Percentile £499 £488 £488
90th Percentile £500 £495 -
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,976 2,647 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.57% 92.62% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,908 2,318
10th Percentile £233 £260 £243
25th Percentile £400 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 49
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £12.04 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £44.47 £53.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.03 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in Scotland

SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SDET in Scotland

SDET
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Glasgow +4 3 £498 +4.84%
SDET
UK

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer in Test
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Service Management
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle