SDET Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SDET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SDET over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 417 441
Rank change year-on-year +110 +24 -28
Contract jobs citing SDET 34 40 185
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.17% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.19% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 128
10th Percentile £386 £396 £406
25th Percentile £425 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £500 £531 £638
90th Percentile £588 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

SDET falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 13 June 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 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) GitHub
3 6 (17.65%) AWS
4 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
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 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.88%) MariaDB
2 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (52.94%) Selenium
2 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
3 10 (29.41%) Cucumber
4 8 (23.53%) JUnit
4 8 (23.53%) REST Assured
5 7 (20.59%) WebDriver
6 6 (17.65%) Cypress.io
6 6 (17.65%) Git
6 6 (17.65%) JMeter
7 5 (14.71%) TestNG
8 4 (11.76%) JIRA
8 4 (11.76%) Maven
9 3 (8.82%) Artifactory
9 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
9 3 (8.82%) SoapUI
10 2 (5.88%) GitLab
11 1 (2.94%) Appium
11 1 (2.94%) Gradle
11 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (2.94%) Postman
General
1 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
1 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Aviation
3 1 (2.94%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Developer
1 8 (23.53%) Software Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Developer in Test
3 6 (17.65%) Tester
4 5 (14.71%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Test Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Automation Tester
5 4 (11.76%) Development Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Software Development Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Test Development Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.88%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) QA Test Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Software Tester
8 1 (2.94%) Java Automation Tester
8 1 (2.94%) Software QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Gherkin
2 5 (14.71%) REST
2 5 (14.71%) RESTful
3 4 (11.76%) SOAP
3 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.76%) XML
4 3 (8.82%) Playwright
5 2 (5.88%) Node.js
5 2 (5.88%) Software Packaging
5 2 (5.88%) Spring
5 2 (5.88%) Web Services
6 1 (2.94%) .NET
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.94%) Chai
6 1 (2.94%) JAXB
6 1 (2.94%) JAX-RS
6 1 (2.94%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Greenfield Project
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
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
1 6 (17.65%) Windows
2 3 (8.82%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.94%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (85.29%) Test Automation
2 26 (76.47%) Software Testing
3 14 (41.18%) Agile
4 11 (32.35%) Test Scripting
5 9 (26.47%) API Testing
5 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
5 9 (26.47%) Microservices
6 7 (20.59%) DevOps
7 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
7 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
8 4 (11.76%) BDD
8 4 (11.76%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (11.76%) Performance Testing
8 4 (11.76%) Scrum
9 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (8.82%) Open Source
9 3 (8.82%) Sprint Planning
9 3 (8.82%) Test Strategy
9 3 (8.82%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Java
2 11 (32.35%) Python
3 8 (23.53%) C#
3 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 5 (14.71%) SQL
5 3 (8.82%) C++
5 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.88%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.94%) ABAP
7 1 (2.94%) Bash
7 1 (2.94%) C
7 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Accessibility
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) WCAG
3 1 (2.94%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (8.82%) VirtualBox
3 2 (5.88%) Docker
4 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.94%) iptables
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce