SDET Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring SDET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £544 £563
% change year-on-year -26.44% -3.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 723 352 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 96.02% 92.15% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 198 241
10th Percentile £316 £213 £363
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £650
90th Percentile £638 £656 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.33% -2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 6
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.31 £19.25
25th Percentile - £12.55 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £14.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% -34.02% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.50 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £21.00 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.40% -3.02% +3.12%

SDET
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

SDET job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SDET
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SDET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SDET

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA