SDET Jobs in the City of London

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for SDET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SDET over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 122 202
Rank change year-on-year +32 +80 -82
Permanent jobs citing SDET 93 111 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.78% 2.40% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 2.52% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 74 110 68
10th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £57,411
25th Percentile £85,000 £66,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +25.93% +3.85%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £95,625
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
Central London median annual salary £97,500 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.71% +25.93% +3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

SDET is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,079 4,409 6,805
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.13% 95.25% 95.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,440 3,687 5,582
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,515 £45,501
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,451
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £94,264
90th Percentile £113,750 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDET in the City of London.

Salary trend for SDET in the City of London

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in the City of London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDET in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 35 (37.63%) SaaS
2 5 (5.38%) Azure
3 4 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (68.82%) Jenkins
2 58 (62.37%) Cucumber
3 57 (61.29%) Postman
4 51 (54.84%) Selenium
5 22 (23.66%) Cypress.io
6 16 (17.20%) JUnit
7 12 (12.90%) JMeter
8 4 (4.30%) Gatling
8 4 (4.30%) SpecFlow
8 4 (4.30%) TeamCity
9 3 (3.23%) Appium
9 3 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (3.23%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.08%) Git
10 1 (1.08%) TestComplete
General
1 3 (3.23%) Finance
1 3 (3.23%) Financial Institution
1 3 (3.23%) Tech for Good
2 1 (1.08%) Games
Job Titles
1 57 (61.29%) Lead
2 25 (26.88%) Senior
3 6 (6.45%) QA Engineer
4 2 (2.15%) Development Engineer
4 2 (2.15%) Python Engineer
4 2 (2.15%) QA Leader
4 2 (2.15%) Senior Development Engineer
4 2 (2.15%) Senior Software Development Engineer
4 2 (2.15%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (2.15%) Software Development Engineer
4 2 (2.15%) Software Engineer
4 2 (2.15%) Test Development Engineer
5 1 (1.08%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (1.08%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (1.08%) Senior Software Test Engineer
5 1 (1.08%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (1.08%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (1.08%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (1.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (68.82%) REST
2 11 (11.83%) WebdriverIO
3 9 (9.68%) Playwright
4 7 (7.53%) JSON
5 5 (5.38%) .NET
5 5 (5.38%) .NET Framework
5 5 (5.38%) jQuery
5 5 (5.38%) pytest
6 3 (3.23%) Apache Thrift
6 3 (3.23%) Kafka
6 3 (3.23%) React
6 3 (3.23%) React Native
6 3 (3.23%) Web Services
7 1 (1.08%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.30%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.08%) Bitcoin
3 1 (1.08%) Derivative
3 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (72.04%) API Testing
2 64 (68.82%) CI/CD
3 60 (64.52%) Clean Code
4 54 (58.06%) BDD
4 54 (58.06%) Test Strategy
5 25 (26.88%) Test Automation
6 23 (24.73%) Fintech
7 22 (23.66%) Agile
8 21 (22.58%) Line Management
9 17 (18.28%) Unit Testing
10 16 (17.20%) OO
11 14 (15.05%) Test Planning
12 13 (13.98%) Software Testing
13 8 (8.60%) Performance Testing
14 5 (5.38%) DevOps
14 5 (5.38%) Full Stack Development
14 5 (5.38%) Manual Testing
15 4 (4.30%) Agile Testing
15 4 (4.30%) Code Quality
16 3 (3.23%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 62 (66.67%) Java
2 27 (29.03%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.38%) C#
3 5 (5.38%) PHP
3 5 (5.38%) Python
4 3 (3.23%) Swift
4 3 (3.23%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.15%) SQL
6 1 (1.08%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (50.54%) QA
2 4 (4.30%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft