SDET Contracts in Reading

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for SDET skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SDET over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 - 95
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.085% - 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% - 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £600
75th Percentile £475 - £625
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

SDET is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,061 925 1,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 89.99% 90.07% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 625 817
10th Percentile £213 £365 £263
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £669 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £657
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 23 8
10th Percentile £20.17 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £61.65 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +132.14% -35.63%
75th Percentile £80.69 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.49 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £60.57 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +4.76% +174.67% -

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in Reading

SDET
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SDET in Reading.

Daily rate trend for SDET in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala