SDET Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring SDET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £375 - £513

All Process & Methodology Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 208 90 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 81.57% 98.90% 78.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 63 47
10th Percentile £452 £379 £365
25th Percentile £489 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +24.68%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £700
90th Percentile £725 £646 £775
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £589
% change year-on-year - -6.65% +12.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 0
10th Percentile £40.00 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £42.29 - -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile - £76.13 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -30.43% +0.26% +9.24%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

SDET job vacancy trend in Farnborough

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA