SDET Contract Job Trends in Crawley

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
West Sussex > Crawley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Crawley requiring SDET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Crawley 1.09% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
West Sussex median daily rate £400 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Crawley

SDET falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Crawley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60 23 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley 65.22% 71.88% 82.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 39
10th Percentile £223 £193 £143
25th Percentile £355 £220 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £541 £450 £563
90th Percentile £583 £469 £588
West Sussex median daily rate £469 £423 £450
% change year-on-year +10.93% -6.05% -2.70%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Crawley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SDET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Crawley.

SDET job vacancy trend in Crawley

SDET
Daily Rate Trend in Crawley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing SDET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Crawley citing SDET

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Crawley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA