SDET Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 692 663 694
Rank change year-on-year -29 +31 -178
Permanent jobs citing SDET 67 87 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 63 78 133
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,300 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +4.65%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,622 57,306 66,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.99% 95.62% 94.07%
Number of salaries quoted 41,241 29,485 41,027
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SDET in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SDET in the UK excluding London

SDET
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +35 52 £47,500 -32.14% 5
Yorkshire +82 6 £65,000 - 5
North of England +29 6 £65,000 - 5
East of England +19 4 £78,750 +36.96% 1
Scotland -56 3 £45,000 +73.08% 1
South West -29 2 £52,500 +16.67% 2
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 7 (10.45%) Apache
2 6 (8.96%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.78%) Azure
2 16 (23.88%) GitHub
3 14 (20.90%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (20.90%) SaaS
4 12 (17.91%) AWS
5 6 (8.96%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (55.22%) Selenium
2 18 (26.87%) Cucumber
3 16 (23.88%) Jenkins
3 16 (23.88%) WebDriver
4 14 (20.90%) JMeter
4 14 (20.90%) REST Assured
5 12 (17.91%) Postman
6 11 (16.42%) JUnit
7 10 (14.93%) Cypress.io
7 10 (14.93%) JIRA
8 8 (11.94%) Git
8 8 (11.94%) NUnit
8 8 (11.94%) TestNG
8 8 (11.94%) Visual Studio
9 6 (8.96%) Newman
10 5 (7.46%) Appium
10 5 (7.46%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (7.46%) Bugzilla
10 5 (7.46%) Serenity BDD
10 5 (7.46%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (7.46%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (5.97%) Electronics
3 3 (4.48%) Health Technology
3 3 (4.48%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.49%) Finance
4 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Software Engineer
2 12 (17.91%) Developer
2 12 (17.91%) Developer in Test
3 11 (16.42%) Development Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) Software Development Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) Test Development Engineer
4 10 (14.93%) Automation Tester
4 10 (14.93%) Software Developer
4 10 (14.93%) Tester
5 6 (8.96%) JavaScript Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Test Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Senior
7 4 (5.97%) Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Lead
7 4 (5.97%) QA Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Systems Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Systems Test Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Test Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Automation Test Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.39%) .NET
2 13 (19.40%) Playwright
2 13 (19.40%) Web Services
3 10 (14.93%) WireMock
4 9 (13.43%) .NET Core
5 8 (11.94%) JSON
5 8 (11.94%) REST
5 8 (11.94%) XML
6 7 (10.45%) Apache Commons
6 7 (10.45%) Guava
6 7 (10.45%) Java Concurrency
7 6 (8.96%) Swagger
8 5 (7.46%) Gherkin
8 5 (7.46%) RESTful
9 4 (5.97%) Middleware
9 4 (5.97%) SOAP
9 4 (5.97%) Spring
10 3 (4.48%) .NET Framework
10 3 (4.48%) Spring Boot
11 2 (2.99%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Life Science
2 5 (7.46%) Client/Server
2 5 (7.46%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (74.63%) Software Testing
2 44 (65.67%) Test Automation
3 35 (52.24%) Agile
4 17 (25.37%) DevOps
5 16 (23.88%) CI/CD
6 15 (22.39%) API Testing
6 15 (22.39%) Code Quality
6 15 (22.39%) Software Engineering
7 13 (19.40%) Containerisation
7 13 (19.40%) Microservices
7 13 (19.40%) Scrum
8 12 (17.91%) Design Patterns
8 12 (17.91%) Integration Testing
9 11 (16.42%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (14.93%) Test Management
11 9 (13.43%) BDD
11 9 (13.43%) Manual Testing
12 8 (11.94%) Non-Functional Testing
12 8 (11.94%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.81%) SQL
2 22 (32.84%) C#
3 19 (28.36%) Java
4 15 (22.39%) JavaScript
5 12 (17.91%) Python
6 9 (13.43%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.96%) Bash
7 6 (8.96%) Ruby
8 2 (2.99%) PHP
8 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Degree
2 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (37.31%) QA
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
2 4 (5.97%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (16.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (4.48%) Terraform
4 1 (1.49%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.46%) HP
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle