SDET Contracts in Surrey

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
South East > Surrey

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.85% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £371 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £450 £563 £496
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 485 562 829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 82.06% 85.54% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 423 587
10th Percentile £213 £194 £210
25th Percentile £365 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £619 £604 £592
90th Percentile £697 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £504 £495
% change year-on-year -0.74% +1.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 34 22
10th Percentile £11.71 £33.40 £14.80
25th Percentile £13.25 £42.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £18.35 £45.00 £22.97
Median % change year-on-year -59.22% +95.95% -47.21%
75th Percentile £46.25 £58.45 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £62.55 £56.18
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.26% +111.11% -15.89%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in Surrey

SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for SDET in Surrey

SDET
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 18 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
Redhill - 5 £450 -
SDET
South East

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (80.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Development Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Test Development Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) RESTful
1 4 (80.00%) SOAP
1 4 (80.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) API Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C++
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (80.00%) VirtualBox
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle