SDET Jobs in the Thames Valley

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 255 257
Rank change year-on-year +49 +2 -49
Permanent jobs citing SDET 38 11 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.56% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.19% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 34 7 21
10th Percentile £37,500 - £60,000
25th Percentile £39,063 £67,500 £73,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £70,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% -17.65% +41.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £68,750 - -
South East median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% - +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,732 5,801 6,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.12% 94.68% 92.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,012 3,152 3,917
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the Thames Valley

SDET
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SDET in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for SDET in the Thames Valley

SDET
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDET in the Thames Valley

SDET
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +47 23 £62,500 -10.71% 2
Buckinghamshire -7 9 £47,500 -
Oxfordshire +20 6 £40,000 -
SDET
South East

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 7 (18.42%) Apache
2 6 (15.79%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (52.63%) Azure
2 17 (44.74%) GitHub
3 13 (34.21%) AWS
3 13 (34.21%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (15.79%) IaaS
4 6 (15.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (57.89%) Selenium
2 16 (42.11%) WebDriver
3 15 (39.47%) Cucumber
4 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
5 11 (28.95%) JIRA
6 9 (23.68%) JUnit
7 8 (21.05%) NUnit
7 8 (21.05%) REST Assured
7 8 (21.05%) TestNG
7 8 (21.05%) Visual Studio
8 7 (18.42%) JMeter
9 6 (15.79%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (15.79%) Cypress.io
9 6 (15.79%) Serenity BDD
10 5 (13.16%) Bitbucket
10 5 (13.16%) Bugzilla
10 5 (13.16%) Git
10 5 (13.16%) SoapUI
10 5 (13.16%) Zephyr
11 3 (7.89%) Postman
General
1 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (7.89%) Electronics
2 1 (2.63%) Health Technology
2 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
2 1 (2.63%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Automation Tester
1 11 (28.95%) Tester
2 9 (23.68%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) Developer in Test
3 7 (18.42%) Software Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Development Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) JavaScript Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Software Development Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Software Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Test Development Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Automation Test Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Systems Test Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Test Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Java Automation Tester
7 1 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Embedded Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Test Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) Web Services
2 8 (21.05%) .NET
2 8 (21.05%) .NET Core
2 8 (21.05%) JSON
2 8 (21.05%) REST
2 8 (21.05%) WireMock
2 8 (21.05%) XML
3 7 (18.42%) Apache Commons
3 7 (18.42%) Guava
3 7 (18.42%) Java Concurrency
4 6 (15.79%) Playwright
5 5 (13.16%) RESTful
5 5 (13.16%) SOAP
6 3 (7.89%) Middleware
7 2 (5.26%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.63%) Celery
8 1 (2.63%) Kafka
8 1 (2.63%) React
8 1 (2.63%) Spring
8 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Life Science
2 5 (13.16%) Client/Server
2 5 (13.16%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (78.95%) Software Testing
2 29 (76.32%) Test Automation
3 25 (65.79%) Agile
4 13 (34.21%) CI/CD
4 13 (34.21%) Containerisation
4 13 (34.21%) DevOps
5 12 (31.58%) Code Quality
5 12 (31.58%) Scrum
6 11 (28.95%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (28.95%) Test Management
7 10 (26.32%) Microservices
8 9 (23.68%) API Testing
8 9 (23.68%) Integration Testing
8 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (21.05%) BDD
9 8 (21.05%) Design Patterns
9 8 (21.05%) Manual Testing
9 8 (21.05%) Non-Functional Testing
9 8 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (21.05%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) Java
1 15 (39.47%) SQL
2 12 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 8 (21.05%) C#
3 8 (21.05%) Python
4 6 (15.79%) Bash
4 6 (15.79%) Ruby
4 6 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (47.37%) QA
System Software
1 9 (23.68%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.16%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (2.63%) Ansible
3 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) HP
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle