SDET Contracts in Durham

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Durham requiring SDET skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SDET over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Durham 2.70% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North East median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19 33 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 51.35% 51.56% 82.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 46
10th Percentile £288 £190 £206
25th Percentile £373 £244 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £413 £405
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +1.85% +47.27%
75th Percentile £549 £588 £500
90th Percentile £576 £616 £575
North East median daily rate £464 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.25% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £11.44 -
North East median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year -5.71% -57.06% +146.97%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in Durham

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer in Test
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java