SDET Contracts in the North East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £438 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% -13.04% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 249 251 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.81% 79.94% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 117 257
10th Percentile £224 £263 £248
25th Percentile £357 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £625
90th Percentile £625 £685 £708
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 47 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.98
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.81 £35.56
Median hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -57.06% +146.97%
75th Percentile £46.18 £48.75 £45.56
90th Percentile £51.35 £50.00 £47.93
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing SDET as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the North East

SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDET in the North East.

Daily rate trend for SDET in the North East

SDET
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SDET within the North East region over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Durham - 1 - - 2
SDET
England

SDET
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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