SDET Contract Job Trends in Staines

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Surrey > Staines

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staines requiring SDET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staines 1.37% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - -
Surrey median daily rate £275 - £450

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staines

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 Staines.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73 22 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staines 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 19 24
10th Percentile £222 - -
25th Percentile £313 £163 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £208 £205
Median % change year-on-year +112.05% +1.22% -24.07%
75th Percentile £525 £438 £444
90th Percentile £586 £675 £573
Surrey median daily rate £475 £484 £463
% change year-on-year -1.91% +4.70% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £14.00 - £80.00
Surrey median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +1.78%

SDET
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staines 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA