SDET Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring SDET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SDET 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 0.85% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £444 - £500

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 91 64 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 77.78% 90.14% 79.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 45 51
10th Percentile £305 £313 £200
25th Percentile £338 £425 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +1.94% -1.90%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £588
90th Percentile £594 £723 £625
Wiltshire median daily rate £553 £551 £550
% change year-on-year +0.27% +0.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 12
10th Percentile £33.49 - £12.00
25th Percentile £46.00 - £13.77
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £15.43
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.51%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £20.50
90th Percentile £71.75 - £30.25
Wiltshire median hourly rate £20.51 £60.00 £14.54
% change year-on-year -65.83% +312.65% -77.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

SDET job vacancy trend in Swindon

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Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing SDET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing SDET

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java