SDET Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 411 465
Rank change year-on-year +40 +54 -47
Contract jobs citing SDET 25 36 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.17% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 31
10th Percentile £414 £324 £385
25th Percentile £425 £403 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% - +15.15%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £544
90th Percentile £575 £530 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDET in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDET in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +35 9 £500 +29.03% 4
South East +32 9 £450 -20.00% 5
Yorkshire - 5 £450 - 4
North West +16 4 £500 +29.03%
Scotland +20 3 £498 +4.84% 1
Midlands +34 2 - - 1
West Midlands +23 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 1
SDET
UK

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (12.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Selenium
2 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (24.00%) Bitbucket
3 6 (24.00%) Git
4 5 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (20.00%) JMeter
5 4 (16.00%) Artifactory
5 4 (16.00%) JIRA
5 4 (16.00%) Maven
6 3 (12.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (12.00%) TeamCity
6 3 (12.00%) TestNG
6 3 (12.00%) WebDriver
7 2 (8.00%) REST Assured
8 1 (4.00%) Gatling
8 1 (4.00%) GitLab
8 1 (4.00%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
8 1 (4.00%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Developer
1 5 (20.00%) Developer in Test
1 5 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Development Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Test Development Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Tester
3 3 (12.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (8.00%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Software Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) RESTful
2 4 (16.00%) SOAP
2 4 (16.00%) XML
3 3 (12.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (8.00%) REST
4 2 (8.00%) Software Packaging
4 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.00%) .NET
5 1 (4.00%) Playwright
5 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (68.00%) Software Testing
3 15 (60.00%) Agile
4 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (32.00%) BDD
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (24.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (20.00%) API Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 5 (20.00%) DevOps
8 4 (16.00%) Manual Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Open Source
8 4 (16.00%) Performance Management
8 4 (16.00%) Scrum
8 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) TDD
8 4 (16.00%) Test Scripting
9 3 (12.00%) Microservices
9 3 (12.00%) Service Management
9 3 (12.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) C#
4 5 (20.00%) Python
5 4 (16.00%) C++
5 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.00%) WCAG
3 1 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (16.00%) VirtualBox
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) Salesforce