SDET Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 215 247
Rank change year-on-year +19 +32 -40
Contract jobs citing SDET 9 2 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.16% 0.034% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.038% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile £382 £529 £375
25th Percentile £425 £534 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £488 £584 £564
90th Percentile £508 £586 £625
England median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,729 5,219 6,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.98% 89.43% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,757 3,621 4,692
10th Percentile £238 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £406 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 221 286
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.15 £16.15
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.00 £62.95
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SDET in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SDET in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SDET in the South East over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SDET in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SDET in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for SDET in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Surrey - 5 £450 - 1
Thames Valley +7 2 £463 -19.57% 1
Hampshire - 2 £513 - 1
Berkshire -13 1 £450 -21.74% 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £475 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) Artifactory
2 4 (44.44%) Bitbucket
2 4 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Selenium
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) JUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
4 1 (11.11%) TestNG
4 1 (11.11%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Development Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Software Development Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Test Development Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Environment Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) RESTful
1 4 (44.44%) SOAP
1 4 (44.44%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Embedded Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (55.56%) API Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
3 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
4 4 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Manual Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Open Source
4 4 (44.44%) Performance Management
4 4 (44.44%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Microservices
6 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) QA Automation
6 1 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) C++
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (44.44%) VirtualBox
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle