SDET Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SDET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - 63
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.11% - 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% - 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £556 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £585
75th Percentile £569 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £563 - £585

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 753 440 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.08% 92.05% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 288 416
10th Percentile £331 £263 £300
25th Percentile £419 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £638 £672
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 24
10th Percentile - £17.08 £11.75
25th Percentile £14.25 £27.87 £12.15
Median hourly rate £14.50 £61.76 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year -76.52% +402.13% -67.84%
75th Percentile £24.29 £99.42 £12.53
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £14.82
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.00 £22.14 £12.53
% change year-on-year -14.18% +76.70% -38.12%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

SDET job vacancy trend in Leeds

SDET
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SDET

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk