SDET Contracts in Central London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for SDET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDET over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 165 170
Rank change year-on-year +48 +5 -21
Contract jobs citing SDET 15 11 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.62% 0.29% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.32% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 28
10th Percentile £404 £456 £363
25th Percentile £467 £538 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £514
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +21.65% +11.08%
75th Percentile £556 £734 £673
90th Percentile £581 £744 £771
London median daily rate £500 £579 £500
% change year-on-year -13.61% +15.75% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,197 3,446 4,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.60% 91.36% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,565 2,330 3,170
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 29 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.50 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £53.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in Central London

SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDET in Central London.

Daily rate trend for SDET in Central London

SDET
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDET in Central London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDET in Central London

SDET
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the Central London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +47 13 £500 -20.00%
SDET
London

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (13.33%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) MQTT
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Selenium
2 7 (46.67%) Cucumber
3 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 3 (20.00%) JIRA
4 3 (20.00%) JUnit
4 3 (20.00%) TestNG
5 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (13.33%) Git
5 2 (13.33%) Maven
6 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.67%) GitLab
6 1 (6.67%) Gradle
6 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
6 1 (6.67%) Mocha
6 1 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
6 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
6 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
6 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Aviation
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Development Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Development Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Development Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) Playwright
3 2 (13.33%) Middleware
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) Chai
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) JAXB
4 1 (6.67%) JAX-RS
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.67%) Derivative
3 1 (6.67%) Equities
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Test Scripting
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Microservices
5 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) BDD
7 2 (13.33%) CRM
7 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Logistics
7 2 (13.33%) Performance Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
8 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (6.67%) Manual Testing
8 1 (6.67%) Test Management
8 1 (6.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (13.33%) C#
6 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) iptables
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes