SDET Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 307 422 434
Rank change year-on-year +115 +12 -56
Contract jobs citing SDET 34 46 189
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.18% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.20% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 35 135
10th Percentile £381 £400 £408
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £500 £538 £625
90th Percentile £588 £650 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

SDET
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SDET trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SDET.

SDET daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SDET over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

SDET daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (8.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) GitHub
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.94%) GCP
6 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
6 1 (2.94%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.94%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) MariaDB
1 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 2 (5.88%) MySQL
1 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (58.82%) Selenium
2 14 (41.18%) Jenkins
3 11 (32.35%) REST Assured
4 10 (29.41%) Cucumber
5 9 (26.47%) Git
5 9 (26.47%) TestNG
6 7 (20.59%) Cypress.io
6 7 (20.59%) JMeter
6 7 (20.59%) WebDriver
7 6 (17.65%) JUnit
7 6 (17.65%) Maven
8 5 (14.71%) Bitbucket
9 4 (11.76%) JIRA
9 4 (11.76%) SoapUI
10 3 (8.82%) Artifactory
11 2 (5.88%) GitLab
11 2 (5.88%) Gradle
11 2 (5.88%) Mocha
12 1 (2.94%) eCATT
12 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (8.82%) Finance
1 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
1 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Banking
2 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Aviation
3 1 (2.94%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Tester
2 7 (20.59%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Software Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Automation Tester
3 6 (17.65%) Developer in Test
4 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Development Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Software Development Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Test Development Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Test Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Automation Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.88%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Java Automation Tester
7 2 (5.88%) QA Consultant
7 2 (5.88%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) REST
1 5 (14.71%) SOAP
2 4 (11.76%) RESTful
2 4 (11.76%) XML
3 3 (8.82%) Gherkin
3 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
3 3 (8.82%) Web Services
4 2 (5.88%) Chai
4 2 (5.88%) JAXB
4 2 (5.88%) JAX-RS
4 2 (5.88%) Middleware
4 2 (5.88%) Node.js
4 2 (5.88%) Spring
5 1 (2.94%) .NET
5 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.94%) Playwright
5 1 (2.94%) React
5 1 (2.94%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.94%) Machine to Machine
3 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Windows
3 3 (8.82%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Android
4 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (85.29%) Test Automation
2 24 (70.59%) Software Testing
3 13 (38.24%) Agile
4 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
5 10 (29.41%) BDD
6 9 (26.47%) API Testing
6 9 (26.47%) Microservices
7 8 (23.53%) DevOps
8 7 (20.59%) End-to-End Testing
8 7 (20.59%) Test Scripting
9 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (14.71%) Scrum
9 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
9 5 (14.71%) Test Strategy
10 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
10 4 (11.76%) CRM
10 4 (11.76%) Performance Testing
10 4 (11.76%) QA Automation
10 4 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
11 3 (8.82%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (55.88%) Java
2 16 (47.06%) Python
3 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 7 (20.59%) C#
5 5 (14.71%) SQL
6 3 (8.82%) C++
6 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.88%) C
8 1 (2.94%) ABAP
8 1 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) QA
2 5 (14.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (8.82%) WCAG
4 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
1 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (8.82%) VirtualBox
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.82%) SAP