SDET Contract Job Trends in Essex

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring SDET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 0.76% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
East of England median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 96 70 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 72.73% 81.40% 82.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 109
10th Percentile £240 £223 £181
25th Percentile £300 £314 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -27.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £443 £500 £551
90th Percentile £500 £600 £601
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 42
10th Percentile £12.75 £31.50 £10.42
25th Percentile £15.32 £33.75 £14.17
Median hourly rate £22.00 £117.50 £34.08
Median % change year-on-year -81.28% +244.83% -21.90%
75th Percentile £54.06 £200.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £62.50 - £80.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.80 £54.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -59.63% +41.66% +15.52%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

SDET job vacancy trend in Essex

SDET
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing SDET

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer in Test
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared