SDET Jobs with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 427 535
Rank change year-on-year -38 +108 -156
Permanent jobs citing SDET 120 255 337
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.36% 0.62% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.64% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 119 218 227
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +15.38% +0.78%
75th Percentile £112,500 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +3.85%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,884 39,545 66,696
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 23,455 27,516 41,159
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SDET salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SDET
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing SDET over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

SDET salary 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 6 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.33%) SaaS
2 27 (22.50%) Azure
3 20 (16.67%) GitHub
4 14 (11.67%) AWS
5 10 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.00%) IaaS
7 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 81 (67.50%) Jenkins
2 74 (61.67%) Selenium
3 70 (58.33%) Cucumber
4 68 (56.67%) Postman
5 25 (20.83%) Cypress.io
6 18 (15.00%) JMeter
7 17 (14.17%) REST Assured
8 10 (8.33%) JUnit
9 9 (7.50%) JIRA
10 8 (6.67%) Git
10 8 (6.67%) SoapUI
11 7 (5.83%) Appium
11 7 (5.83%) SpecFlow
12 6 (5.00%) Newman
12 6 (5.00%) TeamCity
12 6 (5.00%) TestNG
12 6 (5.00%) WebDriver
13 5 (4.17%) Bugzilla
13 5 (4.17%) Zephyr
14 4 (3.33%) Maven
General
1 5 (4.17%) Finance
1 5 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (3.33%) Health Technology
2 4 (3.33%) Public Sector
3 3 (2.50%) Banking
3 3 (2.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (2.50%) Tech for Good
4 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (31.67%) Lead
2 25 (20.83%) Senior
3 15 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) Tester
5 13 (10.83%) Automation Tester
6 12 (10.00%) Developer
6 12 (10.00%) Developer in Test
7 11 (9.17%) Development Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Software Development Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Test Development Engineer
8 10 (8.33%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
9 6 (5.00%) QA Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) QA Automation Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) Python Software Engineer
11 3 (2.50%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.50%) Test Engineer
12 2 (1.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (56.67%) REST
2 18 (15.00%) Playwright
3 13 (10.83%) Web Services
4 11 (9.17%) .NET
4 11 (9.17%) WebdriverIO
5 10 (8.33%) WireMock
6 8 (6.67%) Spring
7 7 (5.83%) .NET Framework
7 7 (5.83%) Kafka
7 7 (5.83%) Spring Boot
8 6 (5.00%) RESTful
8 6 (5.00%) Swagger
9 5 (4.17%) Apache Commons
9 5 (4.17%) Guava
9 5 (4.17%) Java Concurrency
9 5 (4.17%) pytest
10 4 (3.33%) Gherkin
10 4 (3.33%) jQuery
10 4 (3.33%) JSON
10 4 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.83%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.00%) Client/Server
2 6 (5.00%) Life Science
3 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (68.33%) CI/CD
2 76 (63.33%) API Testing
3 64 (53.33%) BDD
4 61 (50.83%) Clean Code
5 46 (38.33%) Test Automation
6 44 (36.67%) Software Testing
7 37 (30.83%) Test Strategy
8 28 (23.33%) Agile
9 25 (20.83%) Fintech
10 24 (20.00%) Line Management
11 19 (15.83%) DevOps
12 15 (12.50%) Software Engineering
13 14 (11.67%) Microservices
14 12 (10.00%) Containerisation
14 12 (10.00%) Scrum
15 11 (9.17%) Design Patterns
16 10 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
16 10 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
17 9 (7.50%) Mentoring
17 9 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (53.33%) Java
2 37 (30.83%) JavaScript
3 21 (17.50%) C#
4 19 (15.83%) SQL
5 16 (13.33%) Python
6 9 (7.50%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.00%) Bash
7 6 (5.00%) PHP
7 6 (5.00%) Ruby
8 3 (2.50%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.50%) Swift
9 2 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.83%) Degree
3 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (43.33%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.17%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (0.83%) Ansible
3 1 (0.83%) Consul
Vendors
1 13 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.17%) HP
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle